Administrator's release notes: Miscellaneous general improvements

Tekla Structures
2021
Tekla Structures

Administrator's release notes: Miscellaneous general improvements

New options in File > Settings

There are now two new options in File > Settings that affect DX views: Hatching of overlapping surfaces and Dashed line for hidden line.

These options control whether the hatching of overlapping surfaces on the same plane is on or off, and whether the dashed lines for part edge lines are shown in the DirectX rendered model views.

These options replace the previously used advanced options XS_HATCH_OVERLAPPING_FACES_IN_DX and XS_USE_DASHED_HIDDEN_LINES.

Selection filter speed improved

Previously, selecting filters in the Object Group - Selection Filter dialog box could become very slow when using project or firm folders over network drives, especially when the folders contained many subfolders.

You can now use an advanced option to enable optimized filter selection, which reduces the time to select any filter that has already been selected at least once during the Tekla Structures session. The optimization can be activated by setting the XS_FILTER_DIALOG_USE_CACHED_SEARCH_RESULTS advanced option to value true in an initialization (.ini) file. This advanced option is not shown in the Advanced options dialog box.

Example: Open teklastructures.ini, and add the following line:

set XS_FILTER_DIALOG_USE_CACHED_SEARCH_RESULTS=true

To do:

Set XS_FILTER_DIALOG_USE_CACHED_SEARCH_RESULTS=true, if needed.

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