Combine and explode sketch objects in drawings

Tekla Structures
Modified: 16 Dec 2025
2025
Tekla Structures

Combine and explode sketch objects in drawings

You can explode sketch objects like polylines, rectangles, or polygons into separate straight lines. You can also combine separate lines, continuous lines, and polylines into a single polyline or a closed polygon.

To Do this
Combine separate lines, continuous lines or polylines into a single polyline or a closed polygon
  1. Select the separate lines or polylines.

  2. Go to the Drawing tab and click Combine .

Separate lines and polyline are combined into a single polyline or a closed polygon. When you select the combined shape, you can see that Tekla Structures has combined the lines and created more handles in the shape:

Explode a polyline, rectangle, or polygon into separate straight lines
  1. Select polylines, rectangles or polygons.
  2. Go to the Drawing tab and click Explode .

    The polylines, rectangles and polygons are exploded into single lines:

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