Protect areas in a drawing
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 view properties contain pre-defined protection settings, which you may change. In GA drawings, you may also define protection settings on the drawing level.
For example, In GA drawings you often want to have different protection settings in plan views and section or detail views. In plan views, you may want to show marks inside the member, for example, a slab. In section and detail views all marks need to be outside the member.
Below is an example of the protection properties dialog with explanations of the selections.
(1) With a selection like this, text and marks may overlap with part corners and edges, but not with part content.
(2) With a selection like this, dimension values may not overlap with other dimension arrowheads, lines or values.
The objects at the top of the dialog box define the areas to be protected, see descriptions below:
Column |
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 |
The objects on the left in the dialog box define which objects, or object elements, Tekla Structures cannot place in the protected areas. See the descriptions below:
Row |
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 |
You can check which areas are protected by using the Show protection command. You can enter this command in the Quick Launch box. This command shows the protected areas with colors.
Define automatic protection settings in single-part, assembly and cast unit drawings
Define automatic protection settings for GA drawings
In GA drawings, automatic protection settings can only be defined on drawing level.
Modify protection settings in an existing drawing on view level
You can modify the protection settings on view level in all drawing types.