XS_CONNECTING_SIDE_MARK_SYMBOL

Tekla Structures
Modified: 31 Oct 2025
2026
Tekla Structures

XS_​CONNECTING_​SIDE_​MARK_​SYMBOL

Category in Advanced options dialog: Marking - parts

Use this advanced option to change the symbol for a connecting side mark in single-part, cast unit, and assembly drawings. By default, the side mark symbol is the symbol number 34 in the xsteel.sym symbol file. To change the symbol, set this advanced option to a different symbol number.

Symbol 34 in xsteel.sym:

To define a connecting side mark symbol for general arrangement drawings, set the advanced option XS_​GA_​CONNECTING_​SIDE_​MARK_​SYMBOL to the desired value in an initialization (.ini) file.

To define the minimum distance of the connecting part from the main part so that when the distance is larger than the value you enter, Tekla Structures draws a connecting side mark, set a value for the advanced option XS_​MIN_​DISTANCE_​FOR_​CONNECTING_​SIDE_​MARK.

For more information about connecting side marks, see Indicate part orientation.

This advanced option is model specific and the setting is saved in the options database.

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