Lock drawings

You can indicate that a drawing is not available for editing by locking it. When a drawing is locked, it cannot be accidentally modified. The geometry of the locked drawing still changes when the model changes.

When you lock a drawing it does not prevent other than manual changes in the drawing. If there are changes in the model, they affect the drawings even if you have locked it. Locking is used to notify other users and yourself that the drawing should not be opened, edited, or deleted, and it also prevents users from doing this by accident. Locked drawings can be opened by anyone, but they have to be manually unlocked first.

Tekla Structures flags locked drawings for update if the model changes.

In Document manager, select the drawing you want to lock.
Ensure that the edit switch is active.
Click the Lock column next to the selected drawing.

You can also select this command from the context menu, or click the Lock button at the top. When you do this, you can lock several drawings at a time.

The Locked by column in the Document manager shows who has locked the drawing. If you have logged in to your Trimble Identity, your account name is shown. Otherwise your user name is shown.
To unlock the drawings, click the Lock column again, or select the locked drawings and click the Unlock button at the top.

To find out the difference between locking and freezing, see Difference between Lock and Freeze in drawings.