Modify automatic user-defined drawing attributes

Tekla Structures
2018
Tekla Structures

Modify automatic user-defined drawing attributes

You can modify the user-defined attributes before you create a drawing.

  1. On the Drawings & reports tab, click Drawing properties and select the drawing type.
  2. Load drawing properties that are as close to the ones you need as possible.
  3. Single-part, assembly, and cast unit drawings: Click View creation , select the view and the properties that you want to change, and click View properties.
  4. Click User-defined attributes.
  5. On the Workflow tab, enter project-specific information to be displayed in drawings and in the Drawing List.
  6. On the Parameters tab, enter a user-defined Comment for drawings, projects, assemblies, parts, and so on.
  7. Use the User field 1 to User field 8 on the Parameters tab to enter drawing-specific information.
  8. On the Title tab, select if you want to use project-specific or drawing-specific information in the title block of the drawing.

    When you click Use project settings , you cannot enter any information in the title block fields.

  9. If you selected Use drawing settings , the title block fields become available, and you can enter the necessary data in the fields.
  10. Single-part, assembly and cast unit drawings: Click Save to save the view properties. Then click Close to return to drawing properties.
  11. General arrangement drawings: Click OK.
  12. Click Save to save the drawing properties, then click OK and create the drawing.
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