Slope triangle

Tekla Structures
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Tekla Structures
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Environment
Not environment-specific
Slope triangle is a drawing tool which helps you to create a slope triangle diagram to indicate the slope of an inclined part in the drawing.

How to locate

Slope triangle will be available in the component catalog when you open the drawing.

Component catalog icon
  
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Usage

  1. Click the component catalog icon.
  2. Click on the sloped beam (or) slopped line (or) select interrupt for pick two points option.
  3. Pick the insertion point for the triangle.

Slope Triangle Dialog

 
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Sample output

  
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Text properties

You can change the text properties here:
 
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Line properties

You can change the line properties here:
 
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Base value types

 
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Slope triangle values can be represented in three ways:
Sl.No.OptionFunctionalitySample slope triangle representation
1 
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Standard (default): based on base value 1000 mm in metric and 1 in imperial. Remaing two values calculated proportionately. 
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2 
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Actual measurement dimensions 
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3 
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By providing user specified base value of the triangle:
Remaining two values calculated proportionately
 
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Size of the triangle

You can change the size of the triangle by entering a value in the textbox:
 
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