Show and modify drawing views in the model
You can show the drawing views of the selected drawings in any of the open model views to get a clearer understanding of exactly where a drawing view is located in the 3D model, the view direction, and the 3D extents of that view. You can then modify the drawing views in the model and save your changes to the drawing.
Show and modify drawing views in the model
Work with drawing views in the model
Note that when working with the drawing views, you first need to select the desired drawing view in the model.
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Select a drawing view in the model |
Click the drawing view in the model view, or select it from the list on the contextual toolbar. When you select one drawing view, all other drawing views are hidden in the model. |
Deselect a drawing view |
Hold down Ctrl and click an edge of the selected view. |
Increase or decrease the view extents |
Note that you can override the current snap switches by holding down Shift while dragging. |
Create clip planes |
On the contextual toolbar, click Clipping around selected view bounding box on/off. Tekla Structures creates six clip planes that are aligned with the drawing view extents. The selected drawing view is isolated and highlighted and the rest of the model is hidden. When you modify the drawing view, the clip planes are automatically adjusted to keep their alignment to the view extents. You can also use drawing snapshot overlays with the Show drawing views in the model command and the clip planes mode to isolate the view. |
Emphasize objects intersecting the view bounding box |
On the contextual toolbar, click Emphasize objects intersecting the view bounding box on/off. Every object that roughly intersects the drawing view is colored red, and every object that roughly does not intersect is made semi-transparent. |
Create a temporary model view of the selected drawing view |
On the contextual toolbar, click Display selected view as a new model view. This creates a new temporary model view based on the properties of the current model view, and sets the camera direction of the new model view to match the camera direction of the selected drawing view. |
Set the selected drawing view’s camera direction to match the camera direction of the current model view |
On the contextual toolbar, click Change view angle in selected views to match current model view. The view angle of the drawing view changes to match the view angle of the current model view. |
Reverse the drawing view camera direction |
On the contextual toolbar, click Reverse view direction. The direction of the selected drawing view is shown by open arrows on the four edges of the view plane. |
Move or rotate the drawing view |
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Save any drawing view changes to the drawings |
On the contextual toolbar, click Update drawing, or click the middle mouse button. Drawing view changes are only saved when you click the Update drawing button or the middle mouse button. You can edit a drawing view, then select a different drawing view in the model and edit that, and keep going and then click Update drawing. |
Discard any drawing view changes |
On the contextual toolbar, click Discard changes. Any drawing view changes that have not been saved are discarded. |
Stop showing drawing views in the model |
Press Esc or right-click and select Interrupt. If you have made changes but have not saved them, you are asked to save the changes or discard them. |
Examples of drawing views in the model
A drawing view is selected in the model:
The Clipping around selected view bounding box on/off command has been used to isolate the view:
Clip planes have been created in the drawing view of a plan drawing:
Drawing snapshot overlays are used with the Show drawing views in the model command and the clip planes mode to isolate the view: