Copy, move and link drawing views

You can copy drawing views from other drawings in the current drawing as such or using the original layout. You can also move section and detail views to another drawing through Document manager. When you move views to another drawing, the source drawing and the target drawing will contain references to each other. It is also possible to link drawing views from other drawings as such or using the original layout. Linked drawing views update when the original views change.

Copy drawing views from other drawings

Open a drawing where you want to copy drawing views from another drawing.
Open the Document manager by pressing Ctrl+O.
Select the drawing containing the view you want to copy.

You can select several drawings.
On the Views tab, click From other drawing and then click one of the following commands:
- Copy: Copy the views from the selected drawings as such in the open drawing. Tekla Structures does not copy the drawing layout.
- Copy with layout: Copy the views and layout from the selected drawings in the open drawing.

Note:

Copied drawing views do not update when the original views change.

Link drawing views from other drawings

Open a drawing where you want to link drawing views.
Open Document manager by pressing Ctrl+O.
Select the drawing containing the drawing view you want to link.

You can select several drawings.
On the Views tab, click From other drawing and click one of the following commands:
- Link: Display the views of the selected drawings in the open drawing. Tekla Structures does not copy the drawing layout.
- Link with layout: Display the views and the layout of the selected drawings in the open drawing.

Note:

The changes of the original views are also shown in the linked views. If you modify the linked views, the changes will be lost, for example, when you save the model. Do all the modifications in the original view.

Move drawing views to another drawing

Note that if something changes in the detail in the source drawing, the detail view will be updated in the target drawing. If something changes in the section, the section view in the target drawing will not be updated.

Tip:

General arrangement drawings are often full of information. You may want to create empty general arrangement drawings and move detail or section views from the original general arrangement drawings to the empty drawing.

In an open drawing, select the frame of the drawing view you want to move.
Right-click and select Move to drawing from the pop-up menu.
Select the target drawing from Document manager.

You can select additional drawing views after you have started the Move to drawing command and move multiple drawing views in one go. If you have multiple drawing views selected before starting the Move to drawing command, the command will not be available.
Click Move in the Move view to drawing dialog box.
Close and save the source drawing.

Tekla Structures moves the selected view to the target drawing and creates references between the source and target drawings.
Open the target drawing from the Document manager.

The Document manager indicates that the drawing has been updated.
Arrange the drawing views, if necessary.
For more information, seeModify, arrange and align drawing views.
Save the target drawing.

Example

In this example, we have two drawings on the Document manager: BEAM1 and BEAM2.

We move section view C-C from drawing BEAM1 to BEAM2. Below is the original section view in the source drawing BEAM1.

We move this view to drawing BEAM2 according to the instructions above. Below is the moved section view in the target drawing BEAM2. The view label name contains the name of the source drawing BEAM1.

In the source drawing BEAM1, the section mark of the moved section view contains a reference to the target drawing BEAM2.

Tip:

You can use the following advanced options to set the reference text for section view labels:

XS_SECTION_VIEW_REFERENCE

XS_SECTION_SYMBOL_REFERENCE

XS_DETAIL_VIEW_REFERENCE

XS_DETAIL_SYMBOL_REFERENCE