You can define protected areas in drawings to prevent text, marks or dimensions from being placed in that area. When Tekla Structures places text, marks, dimensions or other annotation objects in a drawing, it first checks the protection settings.
The drawing properties files contain predefined protection properties, which you may change. When you load the drawing properties, the protection settings in the loaded file are applied in your drawing.
For details about adjusting the protection settings, see Protect areas in a drawing
Below is an example of the protection properties dialog with explanations of the selections.
- With a selection like this, text and marks may overlap with part corners and edges, but not with part content.
- With a selection like this, dimension values may not overlap with other dimension arrowheads, lines or values.
The objects on the top define the areas to be protected, see descriptions below:
Column
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Description
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Part corners
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Part edges
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Part content
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Text, mark or weld mark
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Dimension arrowhead
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Dimension line
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Dimension value
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Cutting line
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Section mark
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Weld arrow
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Weld mark content
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The objects on the left define which objects, or object elements, Tekla Structures cannot place in the protected areas. See the descriptions below:
Row
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Description
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Text, mark or weld mark
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Dimension arrowhead
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Dimension line
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Dimension value
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You can check which areas are protected by using the Show protection command. You can start this command in the Quick Launch box. This command shows the protected areas with colors.