Autoscale and autosize drawings

If you are not bound to any specific drawing sizes or drawing view scales, you can let Tekla Structures take care of both.

You can first set autoscale and after that autosize. Both of the settings are set in Layout properties.

Note that the following instructions do not apply to GA drawings.

On the Drawings & reports tab, click Drawing properties and select the drawing type.
Load drawing properties that are as close to the ones you need as possible.
Click View creation in the options tree on the left, select the view and the properties that you want to change, and click View properties.
On the Attributes 1 tab, set the preferred drawing view scale in the Scale box.

Do the same for all of the views you plan to create.
Click Save to save the view properties. Do this for all of the views you have modified.
Click OK to return to drawing properties.
Click Layout, go to the Scale tab and set Autoscale to Yes.
Set the alternative Main view scales and Section view scales.
Select the Scale change mode, which defines the relationship between the scales of main and section views within a drawing.
The options are:
- main = section: The scales of the main and section view are equal.
- main < section: Main view scales are smaller than section view scales.
- main <= section: Main view scales are smaller than or equal to section view scales.
Enter the Preferred size.
On the Drawing size tab, set Size definition mode to Autosize.
Click Save to save the drawing properties, then click OK and create the drawing.

When you use both autoscaling and autosizing at the same time, Tekla Structures follows the steps below:

First Tekla Structures tries to find a drawing size where the drawing contents fit by first trying to use the exact scale defined in View Properties > Attributes 1 and the smallest drawing size defined in the current layout. The sizes are defined through Drawings & reports > Drawing properties > Drawing layout editor.

For more information, see Create and edit drawing layouts.
Then Tekla Structures increases the drawing size until it reaches the Preferred size defined in Layout > Scale.
If the drawing fits with the original scale, Tekla Structures tries to increase the scale using the alternative main and section view scales you defined in Layout > Scale.
If the drawing does not fit to any of the defined scales, Tekla Structures starts to increase the drawing size until the contents fit, using Autosize. When necessary, Tekla Structures changes to another appropriate table set within the current layout.
When the views fit, Tekla Structures begin to increase the scale again so that the final drawing uses the largest possible scale.