GA View Object Filter
Not version-specific
Tekla Structures
Environment
Not environment-specific
“GA Out of View Object Filter” allows the user to edit GA drawings very quickly and accurately. This tool will enhance the Quality & Speed, and will reduce manual editing, hiding, filtering of objects which doesn’t belong to that respective Grid planes.
This tool is useful in fast and accurate output and will reduce manually edited information on drawing such as:-
a. Identifying Unwanted Objects
b. Filtering / Hiding Unwanted Objects
c. Deleting Unwanted Part Marks /Bolt Marks.
d. Manually changing View Depth
e. Manually filtering & creating BOM for that Drawing
How to locate
Installers are available in warehouse as 'GA out of View Object Filter'.After installation, the 'GA View Object Filter' application is available in the 'Application & components'.
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Usage
Step 1 : Open the Ga-Drawing, Click the icon to execute the tool, it will prompt you to select the Part Options against the Label Option, see as below.
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Part Option
• None : No effect on Unwanted* Part’s in the selected GA-drawing.
• Select : Unwanted* Parts will be selected in the respective GA-drawing.
• Remove : Unwanted* Parts will be removed from the respective GA-drawing
Label Option
• None : No effect on Unwanted* Part Labels (i.e. Part Mark) in the selected GA-drawing.
• Select : Unwanted* Part Labels (i.e. Part Mark) will be selected in the respective GA-drawing.
• Remove : Unwanted* Part Labels (i.e. Part Mark) will be removed from the respective GA-drawing
*Unwanted parts : Parts which are perpendicular to the Grid Plane
Step 2 : After the selection click on “APPLY”, this tool will filter and delete out the Unwanted Parts and its respective labels depending on your option selection,
see output as below.
Drawing Output Before:
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Output after executing the GA-Filter tool
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This tool has to find out objects / Parts only related to that respective Grid plane & then you can list the filtered parts of the GA in BOM for the same.