Show edge chamfers in drawings

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Modified: 14 Nov 2024
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Tekla Structures

Show edge chamfers in drawings

You can show edge chamfers in drawings, and control the way they are shown by modifying the part properties and the edge chamfer properties. You can also associative notes to edge chamfers.

Show edge chamfers in a drawing

You can select whether to show edge chamfers in your drawing, and the way they are shown.

  1. Open a drawing with a view of a part containing edge chamfers, and double-click the view frame to open the drawing view properties.
  2. In the options tree on the left, select Part.
  3. In the Additional marks area in part properties, select the Edge chamfers on/off checkbox.
  4. In the Representation list, depending on the desired result, select Outline or Exact.
  5. Click Modify.
  6. If needed, double-click the edge chamfer in the drawing and modify the line color and type in edge chamfer properties.
    You can use a standard color or a custom RGB color.
To show the edge chamfers for a particular part in a drawing, double-click the part in the drawing, and in part properties, click the Edge chamfers eye button , and click Modify.

Define default line color and type for edge chamfers

You can define a default color and line type for edge chamfers in drawings.

  1. On the File menu, click Settings > Options and go to the Drawing objects settings.
  2. Define the default line color and default line type for the edge chamfer.
    You can use a standard color or a custom RGB color.
  3. To save the default settings and close the dialog, click OK.
Tip:

You can override the default settings manually in a drawing by double-clicking the edge chamfer and changing the edge chamfer line color and type in edge chamfer properties.

Change edge chamfer line color and type manually

You can change the line type and color of the edge chamfers manually in an open drawing. This overrides the default color and type defined in the Drawing objects settings in the Options dialog.

First ensure that you have set the edge chamfers visible in the part properties.
  1. To modify the edge chamfer properties, double-click an edge chamfer in an open drawing.
  2. Select the desired color and line type.
    You can use a standard color or a custom RGB color.
  3. Click Modify.

    The line color and type changes.

    Invisible color is often used for edge chamfer lines for the reason that you may not want to print edge chamfers, or see them in small scale drawings, but you still want to be able see and select them, for example, to add associative notes.

Example

The following examples show how the edge chamfers are displayed with different part representation settings:

Add associative notes to edge chamfers

You can add associative notes to edge chamfers.

  1. Open a drawing of a part that has edge chamfers.
  2. Double-click the parts and edge chamfers and modify the part properties and edge chamfer properties so that edge chamfers are visible and you can easily select them.
  3. To open associative notes properties, hold down Shift and on the Annotations tab in the drawing, click one of the commands in the Note drop down.
    You can also select Associative note in the property pane object list.
  4. In the Object type list, select Edge chamfer.
  5. In the associative note visual editor, click the plus button to open the element list and select the elements to be added in the note.
    You can delete the unnecessary elements from the note by clicking the red delete button
  6. Modify other properties as required.
  7. To add the note, click an edge chamfer in the drawing.

    If you use a leader line, you need to pick a position for the note.

Example: Edge chamfers

See below for typical examples of the ways you can show edge chamfers in drawings.

In the first example, the part Representation has been set to Exact and Edge chamfers have been set visible. Invisible color is used for edge chamfer lines, because you usually do not want to show edge chamfers in printouts, but may want to see and select them in the drawing, for example, to add associative notes.

In the second example, Representation has been set to Outline and Edge chamfers have been set visible in the part properties. Invisible color is used for edge chamfer lines, because you may want to see and select chamfers in the drawing, for example, to add associative notes. This representation type is often used when the scale is small and you do not need to see the small chamfers clearly. The edge chamfer presented in the lower right corner of the image shows what the edge chamfer looks like when it is selected.

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