What are Template Editor templates?
Templates are descriptions of forms and tables that can be included in your products. They are either graphical or textual and the contents of the template fields are filled in by the product at run time.
Templates are used for a variety of different purposes, for example, to print a list of parts used in a construction assembly, to denote the legend on an electrical network map, or to provide statistics on the contents of the map such as city area, scale or date.
Graphical templates
Graphical templates are generally used to display map legends and labels, or project and company information. In addition to text, they can contain graphics, such as tables, pictures or symbols. They can also employ different font types and settings. Graphical template definitions have the extension .tpl.
Textual templates
Textual templates only contain text. They are primarily used for creating reports or listings of application area-specific objects, for example in material lists of steel construction assemblies in Tekla Structures.
You can modify the column settings in order to print templates with multiple columns.
You can use various font types, but they do not appear in the output template. If you want to use specific font types in template output, you have to use a graphical template even if the template contains only text.
Textual template definitions have the extension .rpt.
See also
Font properties for texts and value fields in Template Editor