Create a new drawing layout, add table layouts and tables

Tekla Structures
2018
Tekla Structures

Create a new drawing layout, add table layouts and tables

If none of the predefined drawing layouts meets your needs, you can create a new one from scratch or on the basis of an existing drawing layout. After creating the drawing layout, you can add table layouts in it, and then add the necessary tables in the table layouts.

Create a new drawing layout

The following workflow will take you through the steps of:

  • Creating a new drawing layout.

  • Adding table layouts in the new drawing layout. Here you also specify the margins between the outermost views and the drawing frame, and the spaces between two drawing views. In addition, you need to define fixed drawing sizes and calculated drawings sizes for the table layouts.

  • Adding tables in table layouts.

  1. On the Drawings & reports tab, click Drawing properties > Drawing layout .
  2. Do one of the following in the Layout dialog box:
    • Create a new layout from scratch:
    1. Enter the name of the new layout in the box under the list of layouts.

    2. Click Add.

      The new layout is empty.

    • Create a new layout on the basis of an existing layout:
      1. Select a layout from the list.

      2. Enter a new name for the new layout in the box under the list of layouts.

      3. Click Add.

        The content of the new layout is the same as that of the layout you selected from the list.

    Below, a new drawing layout is created on the basis of an existing layout.

  3. Click Apply when done.

Add new table layouts

Now that you have created a new drawing layout, you can add table layouts in the drawing layout.

  1. In the Layout dialog box, select the desired drawing layout from the list.
  2. Click Table layout... to open the Table Layouts dialog box.
  3. Create a new layout by entering the name of the table layout and clicking Add.

    One drawing layout may have several table layouts. You can, for example, create one table layout for each paper size.

  4. Enter the margins between the drawing frame and the outermost views in the Width (distance to the side of the drawing frame) and Height (distance to the top of the drawing frame) boxes.
  5. Adjust the space between two drawing views in the Horizontal and Vertical boxes.

  6. Repeat steps 3 - 5 for each table layout.
  7. Click Update and OK.
  8. In the Layout dialog box, select the drawing layout, click Fixed sizes... , define fixed drawing sizes, and connect the fixed drawing sizes to table layouts.

    Fixed sizes use specific drawing sizes.

  9. Click Update and OK when done.
  10. In the Layout dialog box, select the drawing layout, click Calculated sizes... and define the necessary drawing size calculations, and connect the drawing sizes to table layouts.

    Calculated sizes are rules that Tekla Structures follows when it automatically adjusts the drawing size.

  11. Click OK when done.

Add tables to table layouts

When you have created the necessary table layouts, you can add tables in the created table layouts.

  1. In the Layout dialog box, select the desired drawing layout from the Layouts list and click Table layout....
  2. Select a table layout from the list.
  3. Click Tables... to open the Tables dialog box.
  4. Select the tables that you want to include in the table layout from the Available tables list and add them to the Chosen tables list using the right arrow.
  5. Select a table from the Chosen tables list and define its location in the table layout by selecting one of the table corners as its reference point in the Table area, and by selecting the reference point of the reference object in the Reference area.
  6. Set the scale of the selected table.

    You can scale tables created with the Template Editor and DWG/DXF files to different sizes. Each table and DWG/DXF file in a table layout can have its own scale. The values you enter determine the size of the scaled object relative to the original.

  7. Set the transparency of the selected table.

    A transparent table can overlap with another table, view, or drawing object. For example, if you use DWG/DXF drawing frames, you should make them transparent. Otherwise you will not be able to locate any other objects inside the frames.

  8. Define the horizontal and vertical distance of the selected table from the reference object.
  9. Click Update.
  10. Repeat the steps 5 - 9 for each table you add in the table layout.
  11. Click OK.

  12. Click Update and OK in the Table Layouts dialog box.
  13. Click OK in the Layout dialog box.

You have now created a new drawing layout to be used for creating drawings.

Now you can use the new layout in your drawings.

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