The user-defined attributes in the drawing are displayed when you click User-defined attributes in the drawing properties dialog box. You can show up to 20 user-defined attributes in the Drawing List. To check the ones that you have, click User-defined attributes in a drawing properties dialog box.
When you define new user-defined attributes
When you define new user-defined attributes, create your own objects.inp file in the company, project or firm folder. After adding your own user-defined attributes, you need to use the Diagnose & Change Attribute Definitions tool to update the definitions in the model. The object.inp files are merged so that if there are user-defined attributes in any of the files, they are displayed in the user interface. Tekla Structures merges the files in a way that eliminates duplicate attributes. If Tekla Structures encounters the same attribute name in different objects.inp files, the attribute from the first read objects.inp file will be used.
Tekla Structures reads the objects.inp files from the following folders in the following order:
model folder
company folder
project folder
firm folder
system folder
inp folder
Show user-defined attributes in Template Editor
In order to show the new user-defined attribute in Template Editor, you need to add the user-defined attribute in a customized contentattributes_userdefined.lst file and include the name of the customized file in the contentattributes.lst file.
Make a copy of these modified files as the Tekla Structures installation always overwrites these files.
