In addition to cloning drawings using cloning templates in Master drawing catalog, you can clone single-part, cast unit, assembly, and general arrangement drawings from the Document manager.

1. In the model, select what to include in the drawing:

   • If you are cloning a single-part drawings, cast unit drawing or assembly drawing, select parts, assemblies or cast units.

   • If you are cloning a general arrangement drawing, select a model view. A selected view has a yellow frame around it.

     

2. On the Drawings & reports tab, click Document manager.
3. Click Clone and do one of the following:

   • Select Current model, click Select drawing and, in Document manager, select the drawing that you want to use as a cloning template.

   • Select Other model, browse to the desired model and click OK. Then click Select template and select the drawing that you want to use as a cloning template. Leave the list open. For more detailed instructions on this type of cloning, see section "Clone using drawing templates in a template library".

4. In the displayed Clone Drawing dialog, select the drawing object types you want to clone into the new drawing, and the actions for each object type.

   • For Dimensions and Other marks (all building object marks), select whether you want to Clone them, recreate them automatically when you clone a drawing (Create) or Ignore them in cloning.

     Selecting Create in the Dimensions and Other marks box is useful if cloning the dimensions or other marks does not produce satisfactory results. Using this option does not create any new views.

   • For other objects, select to Clone or Ignore them.

5. Click Clone selected.

This is a more manual way of cloning drawings: you can create drawings using drawing templates located in the template library. The template library is in practice a model folder that contains the drawings that you want to use as drawing templates.

In the Master drawing catalog, you can create single-part, assembly, and cast unit drawings using templates that you have added in the catalog from Document manager.

1. On the Drawings & reports tab, click Master drawing catalog.
2. Select Cloning templates from the list at the top.
3. Double-click the cloning template that you want to use.
4. In the Master drawing properties dialog, go to the Drawing creation tab and specify how you want to clone dimensions and marks.

   You can select to ignore the dimensions, marks, and model weld marks, clone them, or recreate them.

   The Marks option controls revision marks and all building object marks.

5. Still on the Drawing creation tab, select which object types you want to clone from the master drawing.
6. Click OK
7. If you want to create a drawing only for certain parts, select the parts from the model.

   You can also use an appropriate selection filter and select the whole model using area selection. Activate only the Select objects selection switch when you select objects, otherwise the selection may take a long time.

8. Click Create drawings or Create drawings for all parts.
9. Number the model if prompted to do so.

   Tekla Structures creates the drawings and adds them in Document manager. In the Document manager, cloned drawings are marked with the text Drawing was cloned in the Changes column. The Cloning source column indicates which drawings were used as cloning templates.

10. Check the cloned drawing and modify it, if necessary.

In the Master drawing catalog, you can clone drawings using templates located in other models.

1. On the Drawings & reports tab, click Master drawing catalog.
2. In the Master drawing catalog, click to open the Models Containing Master Drawings dialog.
3. Click Add model... and browse to the desired model.
4. Click OK.

   Now the cloning templates in the defined folder are displayed in the Master drawing catalog.

5. Select the cloning template from the Master drawing catalog and create a drawing using the selected template.

The dimension cloning options in the Clone Drawing dialog affect all views, whereas the Dimension creation method in this view option sets the dimension creation method for the selected view only. You can create automatic dimensions in the front view and clone the dimensions in section and end view, for example.

1. Double-click the drawing view frame to open the View properties dialog.
2. On the Attributes 2 tab, set Dimension creation method in this view to Clone.

   Using this option affects the creation of the dimensions during cloning and re-dimensioning of existing drawings.

3. Click Modify.
4. Save and close the drawing.
5. Open the Document manager, select the drawing and click Clone...
6. In the Clone Drawing dialog, select the objects to be cloned and the dimension cloning option (Ignore, Clone, Create).

   • If you select Dimensions > Ignore, the dimensions will be cloned only for those views that have Dimension creation method in this view set to Clone.

   • If you select Dimensions > Clone, the dimensions will be cloned for all views.

   • If you select Dimensions > Create, the dimensions will be created for all views except for those that have Dimension creation method in this view set to Do not create.

7. Click Clone selected.

Often improvements in cloning and associativity require that the associative rules have to be recreated. This can be done by using the Refresh associativity command. When you use this command, you do not need to recreate the drawing.

1. On the Drawings & reports tab, click Document manager.
2. Open a cloning template whose associativity you want to refresh.
3. Go to Quick Launch, enter Refresh associativity, and click the Refresh associativity command on the displayed list.
4. Save the cloning template.