Precast US Imperial Macros

Tekla Structures
Not version-specific
Tekla Structures
Environment
United States (Imperial)

Precast Drawing Macros

1. Create Horizontal WP Dimensions

  • Creates horizontal working point dimensions for walls or panels
  • Runs on currently selected views or all front and back type views if none are selected
  • Relies on custom components or modeling of a guide beam with class number 544 (customizable in the macro file)
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Model Horizontal Work Points

 

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Drawing Horizontal Work Points

2. Create Vertical WP Dimensions

  • Creates vertical working point dimensions for walls or panels
  • Runs on currently selected views or all front and back type views if none are selected
  • Relies on custom components or modeling of a guide beam with class number 544 (customizable in the macro file)
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Model Horizontal Work Points

 

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Drawing Vertical Work Points

3. Create Strand Depress Dimensions

  • Creates strand depression point dimension for rebar
  • Runs on currently selected views or all bottom-type views if none are selected
  • Filters rebar by class 200 (customizable in the macro file)
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Strand Depress Dimensions

4. Create Strand Lifter Dimensions

  • Creates strand lifter point dimensions for rebar
  • Only creates dimension in BottomView (customizable in the macro file)
  • Filters rebar by class 102 (customizable in the macro file)
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Strand Lifter Dimensions

5. Decrease Main Views Scale

  • Decreases view scales to next smaller size from internal list 4, 8, 12, 16, 24, 32, 48, 64, 96, and 128 (customizable in the macro file)
  • Runs on currently selected views or all front/top/back/bottom type views if none are selected
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Decrease Main View Sizes

6. Increase Main Views Scale

  • Increases view scales to next larger size from internal list 4, 8, 12, 16, 24, 32, 48, 64, 96, and 128 (customizable in the macro file)
  • Runs on currently selected views or all front/top/back/bottom type views if none are selected
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Increase Main Views Size

7. Freeplace Annotations

  • Freeplaces all drawing objects ignoring current location (E.g. dimensions, marks, etc)
  • Runs on objects inside currently selected views or on all views and objects if no views are selected
  • Relies on drawing protection and object placement values being set correctly
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FreePlace Objects

8. Freeplace Arrange Drawing

  • Freeplaces all drawing views ignoring if free placing is set or not on the view level
  • Runs on currently selected views or all views if none are selected
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Freeplace Views

9. Move Marks Horizontally to Perpendicular

  • Flattens marks with leader line placement type horizontally
  • Runs on currently selected marks only
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Move Marks Horizontally

10. Move Marks Vertically to Perpendicular

  • Flattens marks with leader line placement type vertically
  • Runs on currently selected marks only
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move marks vertically

11. Rotate Sections Top in Form

  • Rotates view on the plane of the page so that the "Top in Form" direction is vertical to the page
  • Runs on currently selected views or all section/end type views if none are selected
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Rotate Sections Macro

12. Switch Dimension Tag Side

  • Moves dimension tag contents from Left to Right and vice versa
  • Runs on currently selected dimensions only
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Dimension Tag Flip

 

*Note: Before creating new dimensions each macro removes any existing dimensions it created before and then creates new dimensions (ignores user-created dimensions).

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