During the last project, I had an issue with the weight of some elements in the model. After a quick investigation, I figured out that the weight of the round bars is incorrect. I’ll demonstrate you how I fixed this issue. In the model, I created one beam with circular profile. The length of this beam is 1 metre. If we check the weight, we
I’ve heard this question many times: David how can I copy drawing view? Please help! – Even experienced users have problem with copying drawing views, because there is no direct options for that. Luckily I discovered how can you do that in a few seconds so from now you wouldn’t have problems with that. Read the trick how to copy view on drawings.
I met the situation when i had model created in newer version of Tekla Structures than it should be. For very simple models, without connection and details there is a way to export it to the older Tekla Structures version.
By default there are no option in Tekla Structures to colorize model by profiles. It would be very usefull when checking model profiles.
When you work on laptop you can experiance problem with some too big component dialog editor windows.
I don’t know why this option is turned off by the default. When you modeling welds you have to see weld types and sizes to avoid mistake.
By default Tekla Structures show simplified solid shapes of all profiles but you can preview that shape when you need.
Numbering elements in Tekla Structures seems like irreversible operations but it can be reversed when you use this one option.
From Tekla Structures version 21.0 there are new drawing creation window for assembly drawings which is quite slow and complicated. Not everyone know that there is easy way to turn on old drawing window.
There is possibility to hide workarea symbol in model views. There are two ways to do it: tempolary and permanent.