The behavior of the Ortho tool has been changed. Now the orthogonal snap points have the lowest priority among the snap points. If Tekla Structures detects any other possible snap point than an orthogonal point, Tekla Structures uses the found snap point instead of the orthogonal snap point. If there are no other possible snap points found, then Tekla Structures uses the orthogonal snap point.

Now when you start a command that requires picking points and you move the mouse pointer over objects in the model, Tekla Structures displays a snap tooltip that shows the name of the snap point.

For example:

To show or hide these snap tooltips, click File > Settings and select the Snap tooltips check box.

The colors related to snapping have been enhanced to make the snapping easier and more accurate. The different visual cues in the model help you to pick correct positions when you create model objects.

• When the Ortho tool is active and you start a command that requires snapping to two or more points, for example a beam or polybeam, Tekla Structures displays a rubber band line between the last point picked and the snap point. The color of the cursor, line, and the angle symbol follows the color of the work plane axis: red for x-axis, green for y-axis and blue for z-axis. For any other direction the line between the last point picked and the snap point and the cursor is gray.

  

• If you are using the DirectX rendering:

  when you start a command that requires snapping to several points, for example a polybeam or a slab, Tekla Structures now displays the lines between picked points as light gray and dimension lines as black.

  

  If you are using the OpelGL rendering:

  the lines between picked points are white and the dimension lines are black.

  

• If you are using the DirectX rendering:

  the rubber band line between the last point picked and the snap point now has a new line type and color which is clearly visible regardless of the background color of the model. The color of the rubber band line and the color of the reference point symbol, which is the last picked point, is now light gray.

  

  If you are using the OpenGL rendering:

  the color of the rubber band line and the color of the reference point symbol, which is the last picked point, is now white.

  

• Tekla Structures now displays a turquoise reference line or geometry line of the object showing the line or the edge to which the snap point belongs to.

  

In Tekla Structures 2019, the handling of temporary reference point information was changed. Starting from Tekla Structures 2019, the reference point information is cleared when you interrupt a command. If you wanted to use the reference points in Tekla Structures 2019, you had to set the reference point manually by pressing the Ctrl key and picking a point when you run a command.

Now in Tekla Structures 2019i, you can set the temporary reference point also by right-clicking when a command is running and selecting the Define temporary snap reference point option. If you use the Define temporary snap reference point command, you need to activate it for every reference point you pick.