Tekla Structures – Settings

No effect                     Settings in the Units and Decimals dialog box have no effect on drawings, reports, or the

Inquire and Measure tools.

•      Inches in decimals (e.g. 300.5″)

•      Feet in decimals (e.g. 62.7′)

•      Fractional notation (e.g. 60′-6″)

In fractional notation, all input is shown in feet (‘) and inches (“). If you are using imperial units and want to use fractions, you must use fractional notation.

•     Drag and drop 

•     Xmouse 

•     Xsnap 

•     Rollover highlight 

Pan

Pan toggles the function of the middle mouse button between panning and scrolling. Toswitch between scrolling and panning, click Tools > Options > Middle Button Pan, or pressShift+M. Scrolling moves the “viewer”, and panning moves the model. Hold down the middle button and drag the pointer away from the origin of the object. To scroll faster, drag the pointer farther from the origin mark; drag closer to slow down. You can use Scroll and Panwhen other commands are active.

Drag and drop

With Drag and drop active, you can use drag and drop to move or copy parts. You can also modify polygon shape using drag and drop. You cannot drag and drop components, component parts, bolts, or welds.

Activate                      To toggle Drag and drop on and off, use the keystroke D, or Tools > Options > Drag and Drop.

It remains active until you switch it off.

Tekla Structures remembers this setting between sessions by user name.

Tekla Structures remembers this setting by session and user name.

Xmouse

With Xmouse active, moving the pointer over a view activates the view. Without Xmouseyou have to click on a view to activate it. To toggle Xmouse on or off, click Tools > Options >Xmouse. A checkmark appears next to the menu option if Xmouse is already active.

Using Xmouse           Xmouse is useful when you are using two views that partly overlap. See the following examples:

•     If you want to pick beam positions from two overlapping views, with Xmouse active you simply move the pointer over the view to activate it.

•      With Xmouse active, you can also use the Page Up, Page Down and arrow keys in overlapping views, without having to click a view to activate it first..

until you turn it off.

Tekla Structures remembers this setting by session and user name.

Snap switches           Use snap switches to control the kind of items to which the cursor reacts

Rollover highlight

As you move the mouse pointer over objects in rendered model views, Tekla Structures highlights the objects in yellow, so that you can easily see which objects you can select.

In Tekla Structures, you can use phases to break up a model into different sections. Phases are often used to indicate erection sequences. You can create reports and views, hide objects, and copy objects from other models, according to their phase number.

Example                      For example, you have a large project on which several users will work simultaneously in single-

user mode. First create a basic model which includes, for example, the columns. This is phase 1. You then copy this basic model to all users.

Each user then works on a separate part of the building. As each part of the model is completed, you can copy it back to the basic model as a separate phase (phase 2, 3, etc.).

Working with              To work with phases, click Tools > Phase Manager…. The Phase manager dialog box appears.

phases

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