Protect areas in a drawing

Tekla Structures
2018
Tekla Structures

Protect areas in a drawing

You can define protected areas in drawings to prevent text, marks or dimensions from being placed in that area.

  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. Click Protection.

    The settings are same for all drawing types.

  4. Select check boxes to indicate the areas that you want to protect from text, marks, weld marks, associative notes, dimension arrowheads, dimension lines or dimension values.
    • For example, to prevent text, marks, dimensions or other annotation objects from being placed over the inside area of parts, select the third check box on the first row. The first row defines the placement of annotation objects, and the icon above the third check box indicates the inside area of parts. With this setting, Tekla Structures may place annotation objects on the corners and edges of parts.

    • If you clear the first two columns of check boxes, Tekla Structures does not protect part corners and edges. This increases drawing speed and decreases the memory requirements. You can still protect these areas by using the third column of check boxes for part protection.

  5. Click Save to save the drawing properties, then click OK and create the drawing.
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