Create drawings in Tekla Structures
Drawing creation is always based on drawing properties, no matter which way you use to create them. Planning and implementing the most suitable drawing settings carefully is very important. You can create drawings one by one, in groups, or you can create all drawings automatically.
Choose the method that suits you the best:
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The Create fabrication drawing command is an easy way to create single-part, assembly, or cast unit drawings if you have drawing templates available for use, or if you have saved settings that you want to apply.
- The AI Cloud Fabrication drawings feature is an advanced way of creating fabrication drawings in Tekla Structures. This feature creates new assembly or cast unit drawings based on finalized fabrication drawings from previous projects, which have been uploaded to a cloud collection owned by your organization. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is used when classifying drawings into libraries inside the cloud collection and when looking for the best matching drawing to be used in the drawing creation.
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You can also create drawings using the various master drawing types in the Master drawing catalog. Using rule sets is an automated process of creating several drawings of different types in one go.
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You can use the traditional cloning functionality in the Master drawing catalog and in Document manager and clone drawings on the basis of cloning templates in the current model or in the cloning template models.
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You can increase the level of automation even more by applying detailed object level settings to all of the above mentioned methods. When the level of automation increases, the need for manual modifications decreases. We recommend that you put extra effort in making the automated settings as efficient as possible.
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You can find drawing creation commands on the ribbon, context menu, contextual toolbar, and in Quick Launch.
Click the links below to find out more: