You can define what is shown for bolts
and how the bolts are shown.
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On the
Drawings & reports tab, click
Drawing properties and select the drawing type.
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Load drawing properties that are as close to the ones you need as possible.
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Click View creation and check the Ignore bolt size setting. This setting
filters standard-sized bolts out of drawings, which means that Tekla Structures does not display bolt marks of the defined bolt size in drawings. This
setting is available in single-part and assembly drawings.
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Single-part, assembly and cast unit drawings:
Click
View creation in the options tree on the left, select the view and the properties that you want to change, and click
View properties.
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Click Bolt.
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On the Content tab, select the bolt representation, bolt symbol content, and the visibility
of bolts in main parts.
For assembly and cast unit drawings, you can
also set the visibility of bolts in secondary parts and sub-assemblies.
For more information about user-defined bolt symbols, see Create
customized bolt symbols.
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On the Appearance tab, select the color of the bolts.
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Single-part, assembly and cast unit drawings:
Click
Save to save the view properties. Then click Close to return to drawing properties.
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General arrangement drawings:
Click OK.
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Click
Save to save the drawing properties, then click
OK and create the drawing.
Examples of bolt representations
There are several representation options available for displaying bolts in drawings.
You can select the options from the Solid/Symbol list.
Note that there can be a difference in
bolt representation depending on whether the bolt is a workshop or site bolt, and
also what kind of a symbol has been defined in the xsteel.sym file.
Setting
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Example
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solid
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exact solid
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Symbol
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Symbol2
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Symbol3
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Example
of a workshop bolt:
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DIN symbol |

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