The drawing property pane was introduced in Tekla Structures 2023 for many but not all of the drawing objects. In Tekla Structures 2024, all drawing object property panes are in place, providing a consistent, easier to learn and use interface.

The property pane is now available for the following drawing object types replacing the previously used object-level property dialog boxes:

• Revision mark
• Symbol
• Rich text
• Edge chamfer
• DWG/DXF file
• Image file
• Drawing link
• Hyperlink

• To modify the drawing object properties, click the object in a drawing, enter or select the desired values, and click Modify. If the property pane is not open, double-click the object.
• To set the property values to be used in the object creation, open the object type list from the arrow button on the left side of the property pane, select an object, modify the values, and then create objects of the selected type.

For more information about using the property pane, see View and modify object properties using the property pane.

The new Copy to clipboard command is available in the property pane both in modeling and in drawing mode. Copy to clipboard copies all property values of a selected object. It is especially useful in drawing editing when you need to change the representation properties in many drawings for different object types, such as parts or different types of marks. Copy to clipboard allows you to copy drawing object property values and paste them to same type of drawing objects located in the current or in any other drawing.

You can use keyboard shortcuts to speed up your work, and copy and paste the properties from one object to another even without opening the property pane. The Copy to clipboard command has a default shortcut Shift+C, and the Paste command has a default shortcut Shift+V.

For more information about this new feature, see Copy to clipboard - new way to copy object properties in property pane.

For detailed instructions, see Copy properties from another object.

When creating detail views, section views, and curved section views, you can now easily define both the mark label properties and the view properties in the Detail mark with view and Section mark with view property panes. These property panes now have separate tabs for controlling the mark label properties and view properties.

The section and detail view improvements were already introduced in Tekla Structures 2023 SP5.

In the visual editor for annotation objects, such as notes, marks, and dimensions, you can now add any user-defined attributes in the annotation by typing them in the element search box.

The user-defined attribute handling was improved already in Tekla Structures 2023 SP4.

For more information about mark properties, see Mark properties.

We have improved how the frame options for the various annotation objects in the drawing property pane work in different situations, and also changed the how the frame options are called.

The frame improvements were already introduced in Tekla Structures 2023 SP3.