Overview

Until now you have been able to create only rectangular grids with straight grid lines in Tekla Structures. However, there are use cases where radial / polar grids are needed. For this purpose, there have been workarounds (Radial Grid extension, for example) to create radial grid systems in Tekla Structures models.

However, it was not possible to create any curved grid lines even when using the Radial Grid extension. This lead to radial grids that did not have a very finished look. To fix these issues you can now create radial grids in Tekla Structures

The old grid properties dialog box has been replaced by the property pane window for both rectangular and radial grids.

You can now select grid (view plane) color, label font color and label font size for each grid in the model separately. This also means that the XS_GRID_COLOR and XS_DEFAULT_FONT_SIZE_GRID advanced options are not in use anymore.

You can use this feature, for example, when modeling round or curved structures, such as round columns and towers, tanks and containers, circular platforms, stadiums, and so on, whenever either radial grids or curved grid lines are needed. You can snap to the radial and curved grid lines, which makes modeling parts very easy.

To do

Create the needed radial grids as examples and save them to the wanted folders in XS_SYSTEM , XS_FIRM , or XS_PROJECT path.