Show and modify drawing views in the model

Tekla Structures
2021
Tekla Structures

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

  1. In the modeling mode, click Drawings & reports > Document manager to open Document manager.
  2. Select one or more drawings in the document list.
  3. Click the Show drawing views in the model button in the top-right corner of the Document manager window.

    The button changes color:

    Tekla Structures shows the views of the selected drawings in the model.

    You can drag the drawing view edges, corners, or faces, or the view plane edges, and modify the views using direct modification.

    When Show drawing views in the model is active, and you select another drawing or set of drawings, Tekla Structures automatically updates the model view and the drawing views in it. This way you can easily walk through a list of drawings, selecting one drawing at a time, and see the views of that drawing in the model.

  4. To show the name of a drawing view in the model, move the mouse pointer over an unselected view edge, or select the drawing view.

    Tekla Structures displays a view label:

  5. To show the direct modification handles and dimensions of a drawing view, select the drawing view.

    Tekla Structures shows the view width and height, and depth above and below the view plane.

    The direction of the selected drawing view is shown by open arrows on the four edges of the view plane.

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.

To Do this

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

  • Drag the edges, corners, or faces of the drawing view, or the edges of the view plane.

  • Drag the direct modification handles, or view dimension arrows to change the view size.

  • You can also enter a new value in the dimension value box to change the view size.

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

  1. On the contextual toolbar, click Show rotation handles to display direct modification rotation handles of the drawing view.

    The rotation handles are hidden by default.

  2. Move or rotate the drawing view using the direct modification axis and rotation handles.

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:

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