Combine and explode sketch objects in drawings

You can explode a polyline, rectangle, or polygon into separate straight lines. You can also combine separate lines, continuous lines and polylines into a single polyline or a closed polygon.

Do one of the following:

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Combine separate lines, continuous lines or polylines into a single polyline or a closed polygon	Select the separate lines or polylines. Go to the Drawing tab and click Combine . Separate lines and polyline are combined into a single polyline or a closed polygon. When you select the combined shape, you can see that Tekla Structures has combined the lines and created more handles in the shape:
Explode a polyline, rectangle, or polygon into separate straight lines	Select polylines, rectangles or polygons. Go to the Drawing tab and click Explode . The polylines, rectangles and polygons are exploded into single lines:

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Combine separate lines, continuous lines or polylines into a single polyline or a closed polygon

Select the separate lines or polylines.
Go to the Drawing tab and click Combine .

Separate lines and polyline are combined into a single polyline or a closed polygon. When you select the combined shape, you can see that Tekla Structures has combined the lines and created more handles in the shape:

Explode a polyline, rectangle, or polygon into separate straight lines

Select polylines, rectangles or polygons.
Go to the Drawing tab and click Explode .
The polylines, rectangles and polygons are exploded into single lines:

See also

Draw sketch objects in drawings