Add and modify section marks in drawings

Tekla Structures
2023
Tekla Structures

Add and modify section marks in drawings

You can add section marks in an open drawing, and modify the existing section marks.

You can add section marks only, or section marks together with section views. One example of a situation where you might want to add a section mark without a section view is when you have a similar section that already has a section view. For more information about creating section views, see Create drawing views.

Add section marks

  1. To open the section mark properties first, in an open drawing, hold down Shift and on the Annotations tab, click Section mark.
    Alternatively, you can double-click the command, or select Section mark from the drawing property pane object list.
  2. You can load predefined section mark properties and search for properties:
  3. Enter a name for the section.
  4. To load a set of predefined section mark contents, click the visual mark editor area and in Property file, select the property file.
  5. In the visual mark editor:
    • Click the Properties or Values button to show either the property name or the property value in the preview. These buttons are only available when you are modifying a mark, not when you are creating one.
    • To indicate which end of the cutting line you want to work with, click Start or End.
    • To add more containers in the mark, click the container button . You may add up to five containers.
    • To add elements in an empty mark container, click the container button in the preview and select the desired element.
    • To add more elements in the current container, click the plus button to open the element list, and then select the desired element. You can also search for elements.
    • You can drag elements inside and between containers. Containers cannot be dragged.
    • To delete an element in a container, click the red delete button in the upper-right corner of the element.
    • To delete a container, click the red delete button in the upper-right corner of the container.
    • To add a frame, click a container or an element, click the plus button and select Frame from the element list.
  6. Modify section mark properties:
    Setting Description
    Font
    Font color, Font, Font height

    Define the mark font color, type, and height.

    Before changing the font, select the object that you want to modify:

    • To change the font in an element, click the element.
    • To change the font in a container, click the container.
    • To change the font in all containers, click the background.

    Clicking ... gives more font choices.

    Frame

    Frame, Frame color

    Add a frame around the selected containers or elements and define the frame type and color.

    You can also add a frame from the element list.

    Text placement
    Show on

    Define if the section marks are shown at both ends of the cutting line or only at one end.

    Text position Define the position of the container in relation to the line or in relation to the symbol or symbol center line.
    Text rotation Define the rotation of the container.
    X offset for text Set the horizontal offset of the section mark container from the cutting line.
    Y offset for text Set the vertical offset of the mark container from the cutting line.
    Cut direction symbol

    Symbol

    Symbol color

    Symbol size

    X offset for symbol

    Y offset for symbol

    Define the cut direction symbol properties separately for the Start and End symbols.

    If you want to use Custom symbols, define the advanced options XS_​SECTION_​SYMBOL_​RIGHT_​ARROW_​SYMBOL and XS_​SECTION_​SYMBOL_​LEFT_​ARROW_​SYMBOL.

    X offset for symbol defines the horizontal offset of the symbol from the cutting line.

    Y offset for symbol defines the vertical offset of the symbol from the cutting line.

    Line
    Line color

    Distances

    Define cutting line color and dimensions.

  7. Pick the first and the second point on the cut plane.

  8. Create as many section marks as you need and press Esc to stop.

Move or copy section marks

  • Copy section marks using Ctrl+drag.
  • Copy section marks inside a drawing view with the context menu commands Copy > Linear and Copy > Linear..., the ribbon command Copy, or by entering Copy - Linear in Quick Launch. You can also use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+C.
  • Move section marks using Shift+drag.
  • Move section marks inside a drawing view with the context menu command Move > Linear, the ribbon command Move, or by entering Move - Linear in Quick Launch. You can also use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+M.

Section marks can only be copied or moved within a view. When moved beyond the view frame, the view frame will adjust so that the section mark will always be within the frame.

Modify section mark properties

  1. To modify the section mark properties, click the section mark. If the property pane is not open, double-click the section mark. If you want to modify several section marks, hold down Ctrl and click the marks.

    Click the Properties or Values button to show either the property name or the property value in the mark editor view. These buttons are only available when you edit an existing mark.

    If you have a section view created for the section mark, and you click the section mark in the drawing, the property pane title changes to Section mark with view and you can also modify the section view label properties in the same property pane.

  2. Modify the properties.

    If you have selected several section marks, the properties that have different values have the text Varies. You can select another value from the list.

  3. Click Modify to apply the changes in all selected section marks.
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