Document manager improvements

Tekla Structures
Modified: 12 Feb 2025
2025
Tekla Structures

Document manager improvements

In Tekla Structures version 2025, the functionality of some Document manager buttons has been improved, and there are also changes in drawing status flags, columns, and messages.

Some buttons now enabled in drawing editing mode

Revising, locking, freezing, issuing, and marking ready for issuing

The Revision button and the command buttons for locking or unlocking, freezing or unfreezing, issuing or unissuing, and marking or unmarking ready for issuing are now available also in drawing editing mode. Previously, these buttons where not available when you had a drawing open, and you could not use these commands.

Finding drawings associated to selected model objects

The Select and show only drawings containing parts currently selected in the model button is now available also in drawing editing mode. Previously, this button was disabled when you had a drawing open.

New and updated columns and status flags

  • The new column Cloning source indicates which drawing was used as the drawing template.

  • The new cloud flag in the new In collection column indicates that the current version of the fabrication drawing is available in the currently active fabrication drawing cloud collection.
  • The new status flag in the Up to date column indicates that a drawing has been cloned from a cloud drawing.
  • In the Changes column there is a new message for fabrication drawings created from drawing templates in cloud collections: Drawing was cloned from cloud.
  • The general arrangement drawings are now excluded from the numbering status check. Previously, the numbering status was shown in the Changes column also for general arrangement drawings, even though it is not needed.
  • More colors were added to the status flag icons in the Up to date column to help you to better identify whether drawings are up to date.
    Icon Description
    Quantity increased
    Quantity decreased
    Parts modified
    All parts deleted
    Drawing updated
    Drawing was cloned
    Drawing was cloned from cloud

Multinumbering and multidrawing improvements

Drawing marks for multidrawings correct in Document manager

When you used multinumbering and created multidrawings from existing drawings, showing a correct drawing mark required re-opening Document manager. This issue has now been fixed and Document manager shows correct marks when the multidrawings have been created.

This improvement was already introduced in Tekla Structures 2024 SP2.

Multinumbering and multidrawings work again

When you added an assembly drawing to a multidrawing, Document manager did not show or update the single-part and assembly marks correctly.

If you performed renumbering after creating the multidrawing, the assembly drawings became obsolete, showing a quantity of zero, and lost the connection to the model objects. Assembly numbers were correct in the model, but the drawing link was broken, and using the repair numbering command did not fix it. This issue has now been fixed and multinumbering and multidrawings work again correctly.

This improvement was already introduced in Tekla Structures 2024 SP2.

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