Precast US Imperial Macros

Tekla Structures

Not version-specific

Tekla Structures

Environment

United States (Imperial)

Precast Drawing Macros

1. Create Horizontal WP Dimensions

Creates horizontal working point dimensions for walls or panels
Runs on currently selected views or all front and back type views if none are selected
Relies on custom components or modeling of a guide beam with class number 544 (customizable in the macro file)

2. Create Vertical WP Dimensions

Creates vertical working point dimensions for walls or panels
Runs on currently selected views or all front and back type views if none are selected
Relies on custom components or modeling of a guide beam with class number 544 (customizable in the macro file)

3. Create Strand Depress Dimensions

Creates strand depression point dimension for rebar
Runs on currently selected views or all bottom-type views if none are selected
Filters rebar by class 200 (customizable in the macro file)

4. Create Strand Lifter Dimensions

Creates strand lifter point dimensions for rebar
Only creates dimension in BottomView (customizable in the macro file)
Filters rebar by class 102 (customizable in the macro file)

5. Decrease Main Views Scale

Decreases view scales to next smaller size from internal list 4, 8, 12, 16, 24, 32, 48, 64, 96, and 128 (customizable in the macro file)
Runs on currently selected views or all front/top/back/bottom type views if none are selected

6. Increase Main Views Scale

Increases view scales to next larger size from internal list 4, 8, 12, 16, 24, 32, 48, 64, 96, and 128 (customizable in the macro file)
Runs on currently selected views or all front/top/back/bottom type views if none are selected

7. Freeplace Annotations

Freeplaces all drawing objects ignoring current location (E.g. dimensions, marks, etc)
Runs on objects inside currently selected views or on all views and objects if no views are selected
Relies on drawing protection and object placement values being set correctly

8. Freeplace Arrange Drawing

Freeplaces all drawing views ignoring if free placing is set or not on the view level
Runs on currently selected views or all views if none are selected

9. Move Marks Horizontally to Perpendicular

Flattens marks with leader line placement type horizontally
Runs on currently selected marks only

10. Move Marks Vertically to Perpendicular

Flattens marks with leader line placement type vertically
Runs on currently selected marks only

11. Rotate Sections Top in Form

Rotates view on the plane of the page so that the "Top in Form" direction is vertical to the page
Runs on currently selected views or all section/end type views if none are selected

12. Switch Dimension Tag Side

Moves dimension tag contents from Left to Right and vice versa
Runs on currently selected dimensions only

*Note: Before creating new dimensions each macro removes any existing dimensions it created before and then creates new dimensions (ignores user-created dimensions).