Define automatic bolt properties in drawings

Tekla Structures
2022
Tekla Structures

Define automatic bolt properties in drawings

You can define what is shown for bolts and how the bolts are shown.

  1. On the Drawings & reports tab, click Drawing properties and select the drawing type.
  2. Load drawing properties that are as close to the ones you need as possible.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Click Bolt.
  6. 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.

  7. On the Appearance tab, select the color of the bolts.
  8. Single-part, assembly and cast unit drawings: Click Save to save the view properties. Then click Close to return to drawing properties.
  9. General arrangement drawings: Click OK.
  10. 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

Example

solid

exact solid

Symbol

Symbol2

Symbol3

Example of a workshop bolt:

DIN symbol

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