Create and modify marks, notes, texts and links in drawings

Tekla Structures
2018
Tekla Structures

Create and modify marks, notes, texts and links in drawings

You can add many kinds of annotation objects in your drawings, such as marks, associative notes, texts, and links. Some of these are associative and some independent.

Associative objects update according to the changes made in a model object in the model. Dimensions, marks, and notes are associative.

In addition to the automatic marks and dimensions that you already may have in a drawing, you can add the ones listed below and modify their properties:

Add part marks manually in drawings

Add reinforcement marks manually in drawings

Add manual weld marks in drawings

Add level marks in drawings

Add associative notes in drawings

Add manual dimensions

Add manual dimensions to general arrangement drawings

Modify mark or note properties

Update part and weld marks in drawings

Change symbols in drawings

Merge marks

Drag the mark and associative note leader line base point

Customize leader line arrows

You can also delete marks for parts and reinforcement.

Independent annotation objects are not linked or connected to the Tekla Structures model in any way. Texts, DWG/DXF files, symbols, revision marks, links and hyperlinks are all independent annotation objects.

Independent objects will also become associative if you snap to a building object when you create them, because then they will get associativity points. For example, in texts, the content does not change when the model changes but the associativity point may change. Another example is a line: if you snap to a part edge when you create a line, the line will get an associativity point and move with the part if the part changes.

You can only add texts, DWG/DXF files, links, hyperlinks, revision marks and symbols in an open drawing, and modify the properties of the added ones:

Add text in drawings

Add links to rich text files in drawings

Add links to other drawings

Add hyperlinks in drawings

Add links to DWG and DXF files in drawings

Add revision marks in drawings

Modify the properties of independent annotation objects

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