Folded part drawings

Purpose and description

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The Folded part drawings tool is a simple application that helps the user to create workshop drawings of folded parts including both the folded and unfolded shape. This is achieved by creating two workshop drawings of each folded part, one folded and one unfolded. The views from the second drawing are then copied or linked into the first drawing.

Installing Folded part drawings

1. Download the Folded part drawings installer package from Tekla Warehouse. For more information see Downloading an application from Tekla Warehouse.
2. Install the file package.

Using Folded part drawings

To use the application:

1. Click the Applications & components button 
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   in the side pane to open the Applications & components catalog.
2. Search for Folded part drawings
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   and then double-click to open it.
3. Use the standard settings, load the saved settings, or set the properties to be used for drawing creation.
   1. Select the drawing properties for the folded drawing and assign a drawing sheet number.
   2. Select the drawing properties for the unfolded drawing and assign a different sheet number.
   3. Select whether to link or copy the drawing views, and optionally delete the unfolded drawing if copying views.
   4. Select whether to create drawings for selected parts or all parts by filter. Select a selection filter if creating a drawing for all parts by filter.
4. If creating drawings for selected parts, select the parts now.
5. Click Create drawings to start the drawing creation.
   1. The progress of drawing creation is shown in the progress bar.
   2. The screen is active while drawings are created and several dialogs are opened and closed during the creation process. Do not attempt to perform any actions until the drawing creation is complete.
   3. A notice is displayed in the status bar when the drawing creation is complete.

Numbering

Before the drawing creation is started, a check is made to be sure that numbering is up to date for all the selected parts.

Drawing creation

Drawings are only created for polybeams even if regular beams or contour plates are included in the selection.
If a drawing already exists for a part, use one of the specified sheet numbers that drawing will not be overwritten, but linking or copying of views is not done.

Folded part drawing settings

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The properties in the Folded Part Drawings tool can be saved and loaded just like any in other Tekla Structures dialog box by using the Save and Load buttons at the top of the dialog box. The properties are saved with the file extension FoldedPartDrawings.Attributes.xml. The properties files can be placed in the system, XS_FIRM, XS_PROJECT, or model attributes folders.

Additional information

View scaling

After views are copied or linked from the unfolded drawing into the folded drawing, the views are re-arranged in the drawing using the Arrange Drawing Views command. If autoscaling is used, this can cause the original views in the folded form drawing to change, resulting in different scaling for the folded and unfolded views. To maintain a consistent scale in all views, simply use fixed scaling in the folded and unfolded drawing settings.

Limitations for Tekla Structures 2018i onwards

Document manager is enabled by default instead of Drawing list. All commands and buttons that would have launched Drawing list in earlier Tekla Structures versions will from version 2018i onwards launch Document manager. Because Drawing list macros are not supported in Document manager, please enable the Drawing list, set the advanced option XS_USE_OLD_DRAWING_LIST_DIALOG to TRUE in the Drawing Properties category of the Advanced Options dialog box. 

For details about xs_use_old_drawing_list_dialog , see xs_use_old_drawing_list_dialog
For details about Document manager , see Document manager.
For details about Drawing list , see Drawing list.