Add a watermark in drawings
Not version-specific
Tekla Structures
Environment
Not environment-specific
You can use a watermark in all types of drawings. The watermark is not displayed when you open the drawings in Tekla Structures, but it becomes visible when you print the drawings, both on paper and also when you print them to PDF, for example.
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When printing a PDF, the watermark is in the foreground. When printing directly from Tekla Structures, the watermark is in the background. The watermark is defined in the file privileges.inp. This file specifies who is allowed to do what, in this case adding a watermark.
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| You always add a watermark when you start a project, so before you start modeling and generating drawings! |
Add a watermark
1. Create a new model.
2. Copy the file
2. Copy the file
privileges.inp from the folderC:\TeklaStructures\<version>\environments\common\inp to the model folder.3. Modify the file
privileges.inp by adding the following line at the end:action:DrawingWatermark everyone CONSTRUSOFT
You can replace the text “CONSTRUSOFT” with any text you wish to print. Use the character “_” for a space in the text.
4. Save the file
privileges.inp and close it.5. Save the model.
6. Create the drawings and print them. Each printed drawing now includes the text “CONSTRUSOFT” in the drawing:
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Clear a watermark
If you want to clear a watermark, you do not need to recreate the existing drawings!
1. Modify the file privileges.inp in the model folder by changing the line action:DrawingWatermark everyone CONSTRUSOFT to action:DrawingWatermark everyone clear
2. Save the file privileges.inp and close it.
3. Save the model and restart Tekla Structures.
4. Now print the drawings. The printed drawings no longer include a watermark.