You can define automatic placement settings for the marks before creating a drawing. You can modify the settings in an open drawing.
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On the
Drawings & reports tab, click
Drawing properties and select the drawing type.
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Load drawing properties that are as close to the ones you need as possible.
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Single-part, assembly and cast unit drawings:
Click
View creation in the options tree on the left, select the view and the properties that you want to change, and click
View properties.
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Click an object that you want to adjust, for example
Part mark.
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On the appropriate tab, click the
Place... button to open the
Placing dialog box.
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Adjust the placement settings. The options available in the dialog box vary depending on the annotation object type.
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In
Minimum distance, enter the closest distance
Tekla Structures uses to place the marks. See number 2 in the image below.
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Maximum distance, enter the farthest distance
Tekla Structures uses to place the marks. If no place for mark is found within the specified distance,
Tekla Structures will force the mark to that distance. If you set this option to 0, the maximum distance behaves like infinity. See number 3 in the image below.
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In
Search margin, enter the empty margin that you want to have around the marks. See number 1 in the image below.
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Note that if you use a high
Search margin and
Minimum distance values, the mark placement does not work properly.
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To move marks away from each other, use
Search margin, not
Minimum distance. Keep the minimum distance setting as small as possible to reduce the possibility of marks overlapping.
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Select the
Quarter to define the areas
Tekla Structures searches for a space to place the object.
(1) Search margin
(2) Minimum distance
(3) Maximum distance
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Click
OK.
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Single-part, assembly and cast unit drawings:
Click
Save to save the changes in view properties and
Close to return to drawing properties.
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General arrangement drawings:
Click
OK.
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Click
Save to save the drawing properties, then click
OK and create the drawing.
Tip:
If you are not happy with the mark placement settings in a drawing, you can change the settings in the mark placing dialog box on object level, which has more options available. In an open drawing, you can also change the placement settings for manually added marks, notes, texts, and symbols.
To open an object level dialog box, double-click the mark, text, note, or symbol in the drawing and click
Place.... If you set
Placing to
free, you are letting
Tekla Structures to decide the location of the mark. If you set
Placing to
fixed, you can place the mark in any location. When you use the setting
fixed, the mark stays where you place it even though you update the drawing, whereas with
free,
Tekla Structures tries to find the optimal place for the mark. You can select several or all marks in a view and change the placing settings this way.