Drag, reshape and resize drawing objects

Tekla Structures
2018
Tekla Structures

Drag, reshape and resize drawing objects

Many drawing objects, dimension lines and leader lines of many drawing objects have handles. You can use these handles to reshape, and resize objects. You can also drag the objects.

Before you start:

  • Click a drawing object or an object frame to activate the object and show the handles.

  • On the File menu, click Settings and select Smart select to drag by the object handles without selecting the handle first.

Do any of the following:

To

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Drag the object

  • Point the handle, object or object frame, hold down the left mouse button and drag the object to a new location.

    The object follows the cursor while you drag the object, and you can all the time see what the end result will be.

    With circles, you can also use the middle handle for dragging.

Resize the object

  1. Click one of the objects or object frame handles.

  2. Drag the handle to resize the object or object frame.

    To enlarge the rectangle in all directions, drag from a corner handle.

Reshape the object

  1. Click the middle handle of a line or a handle on the cloud, polyline or polygon.

  2. Drag the handle to reshape the object.

Note:

If you drag a mark, note, text or dimension, its placing setting may be set to fixed depending what its set for the advanced options listed below. The mark, note, text or dimension stays where it is even though you update the drawing.

XS_​CHANGE_​DRAGGED_​DIMENSIONS_​TO_​FIXED

XS_​CHANGE_​DRAGGED_​MARKS_​TO_​FIXED

XS_​CHANGE_​DRAGGED_​NOTES_​TO_​FIXED

XS_​CHANGE_​DRAGGED_​TEXTS_​TO_​FIXED.

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