You can define automatic placement settings for the marks before creating a drawing. You can modify the settings in an open drawing.

1. On the Drawings & reports tab, click Drawing properties and select the drawing type.
2. Load drawing properties that are as close to the ones you need as possible.
3. 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.
4. Click an object that you want to adjust, for example Part mark.
5. On the appropriate tab, click the Place... button to open the Placing dialog.
6. Adjust the placement settings. The options available in the dialog vary depending on the annotation object type.

   • In Minimum distance, enter the closest distance Tekla Structures uses to place the marks. See number 2 in the image below.

   • In 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.

   • In Search margin, enter the empty margin that you want to have around the marks. See number 1 in the image below.

   • Note that if you use a high Search margin and Minimum distance values, the mark placement does not work properly.

   • 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.

   • 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

7. Click OK.
8. Single-part, assembly and cast unit drawings: Click Save to save the changes in view properties and Close to return to drawing properties.
9. General arrangement drawings: Click OK.
10. Click Save to save the drawing properties, then click OK and create the drawing.