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Contents
Miscellaneous .............................................................................. 35
1.4 Import and export.................................................................................. 39
New NC pop-marks dialog box ...................................................... 40
Produce DSTV files for CHS profiles .............................................. 41
CHS profiles with cuts................................................................... 42
Improvements in IFC import and export .......................................... 44
Miscellaneous .............................................................................. 45
1.5 Custom components .............................................................................. 49
Importing and exporting custom components .................................. 49
Performing actions on custom components..................................... 50
Fixes ........................................................................................... 50
1.6 Components.......................................................................................... 52
Connections................................................................................. 52
Miscellaneous connection fixes...................................................... 58
Details......................................................................................... 60
Modeling tools.............................................................................. 61
Cold rolled ................................................................................... 63
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2 Tekla Structures 11.3 Precast Concrete Detailing ............................. 65
2.1 General ................................................................................................ 66
Summing of rows in templates....................................................... 66
New Template editor - version 3.30 ............................................... 68
Improvements in View properties dialog box................................... 69
Release notes.............................................................................. 71
Log file ........................................................................................ 72
Inquire dialog box......................................................................... 72
Locking objects............................................................................ 73
Using the Advanced options dialog box.......................................... 73
Performance improvements .......................................................... 74
2.2 Modeling............................................................................................... 74
Create concrete beam by two points .............................................. 74
Cast-in-place cast units ................................................................ 75
Improvements in copying and moving of cast-in embeds ................. 76
Part reference line........................................................................ 77
Moving and selecting objects ........................................................ 78
Running and recording macros...................................................... 78
Part visibility ................................................................................ 78
Miscellaneous.............................................................................. 79
2.3 Drawings .............................................................................................. 83
Hide and show objects in drawings ................................................ 83
Automatic view name labels in drawings ........................................ 85
View direction marks .................................................................... 87
Add prefix and postfix text to dimensions........................................ 89
Hide dimension values.................................................................. 91
3D views in drawings.................................................................... 92
Edit the properties of automatically created section view hatches ..... 94
Reinforcing bar bend and end marks ............................................. 95
Templates and reports.................................................................. 99
Miscellaneous............................................................................ 101
2.4 Import and export ................................................................................ 106
Improvements in IFC import and export........................................ 107
Miscellaneous............................................................................ 108
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2.5 Custom components ............................................................................ 111
Importing and exporting custom components ................................ 111
Plane naming in custom components ........................................... 112
Performing actions on custom components................................... 112
Fixes ......................................................................................... 113
2.6 Components........................................................................................ 115
Use custom components as lifting anchors in Lifting anchor (80) .... 115
Modeling tools............................................................................ 116
2.7 Reinforcement ..................................................................................... 117
Improvements in reinforcement components................................. 117
Miscellaneous ............................................................................ 120
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1 Tekla Structures 11.3
Steel Detailing
Tekla Structures version 11.3 is a sub release and contains many new features
and fixes.
Compatibility Tekla Structures 11.3 is compatible with all previous versions. You can open and
work with existing models using Tekla Structures 11.3., except for the following
features:
• Multiple lines of text. The drawing texts are stored as XML strings
into database, also the one line texts. If you open a model, saved with
Tekla Structures 11.2 or 11.3 in version 11.1 or 11.0, the XML texts
are shown as they are.
• Surface treatment. Surface treatments made with Tekla Structures
11.2 or 11.3 are not editable with previous versions of Tekla Struc-
tures.
We suggest that you complete any models you have started using your current
version.
Once you save a model in Tekla Structures 11.3, you can open it
in Tekla Structures 11.0, 11.1 and 11.2 but not in older versions,
in Xsteel, or in Xengineer.
Installing Tekla Structures setup creates a new subfolder for Tekla Structures 11.3.
You need Windows Administrator rights to install Tekla Structures 11.3. This
ensures that all Windows system folder *.dll files are updated.
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Topics This chapter is divided into following sections:
• General (p. 6)
• Modeling (p. 14)
• Drawings (p. 20)
• Import and export (p. 39)
• Custom components (p. 49)
• Components (p. 52)
1.1 General
Topics Summing of rows in templates (p. 6)
New Template editor - version 3.30 (p. 8)
Improvements in View properties dialog box (p. 9)
Release notes (p. 11)
Log file (p. 12)
Inquire dialog box (p. 12)
Locking objects (p. 13)
Using the Advanced options dialog box (p. 13)
Performance improvements (p. 14)
The change makes the functionality more logical and allows certain other func-
tionalities to work.
Previously, the Total function calculated all objects in the sum, even when you
had not selected the option Sum values across all rows. The following example
shows how the change affects templates:
• An additional value field has been added to the row in the template,
which is used to sum the weight values across all rows.
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• This value field is then used, when the total sum is calculated.
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The report templates which are included in Tekla Structures have been updated
to sum the rows in templates correctly.
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Display dialog The View setup dialog box is now named Display. To open the dialog box, click
box Display in the View properties dialog box.
You can now select all the checkboxes at the same time on the Display dialog box
by selecting All (In model and/or In components). The uppermost checkboxes are
also automatically cleared if you clear any of the checkboxes under them.
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Release notes
• You can now access the Release notes from the Help menu by select-
ing Help > Release notes when the Tekla Structures online help is
installed. When you click the Release notes option, the start page of
the Release notes opens in the online help.
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Log file
• When the warning message ’Cannot find center point for chamfer’ is
shown, the log file now includes also the object ID. If the object has cir-
cular chamfers with 0.0 radius, the warning message is not shown in
the log file.
• The log file no longer displays unrequired warning messages about
template attributes that were unrelated to the profile in use. To see the
warning messages, set the variable
XS_SHOW_TEMPLATE_LOG_MESSAGES to TRUE in Tools > Advanced
options > Templates and symbols. The variable is set to FALSE by
default.
• Tekla Structures displayed unrequired warning messages in the log
file about duplicate attribute names in custom components in situa-
tions where the custom components did not have variables. This has
been fixed.
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• The Inquire object dialog box shows the connection position type.
Locking objects
If you try to modify a locked object, Tekla Structures shows the message "There
are locked objects, see report. The operation could not be performed." and a
report on access rights.
Previously, this report was created using a template called ownership_report.rpt.
Now the report template is called locked_objects_report.rpt.
• When you open the Advanced options dialog box, it will now open at
the same location as the last time you used the dialog box.
• The variable XS_FIRM works now correctly even when you have
defined it both in the Advanced options dialog box and in the batch
file.
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You can set variables by using the Advanced options dialog box
or by editing the user.bat file.We recommend that you only use
one of these methods to set variables. The variable settings in
the Advanced options dialog box override those in the batch
files.
Performance improvements
• Opening views that contain parts with surface treatments is now
much faster.
1.2 Modeling
Topics Part reference line (p. 14)
Moving and selecting objects (p. 15)
Running and recording macros (p. 16)
Part visibility (p. 16)
Miscellaneous (p. 17)
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You can define the visibility of the part reference line in the Display dialog box.
To display the part reference line:
1. Go to Properties > View...
2. Click the Display... button to open the Display dialog box.
3. On the Advanced tab, select Part reference line.
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• It is now possible to move and select weld preparation chamfers.
Part visibility
Previously, view depths with skewed view planes were not taken into account cor-
rectly in part visibility. Now the part visibility works as follows:
Part bounding box is transformed to view plane, if the section view is skewed.
The part will not be visible in the view if the part bounding box does not intersect
with the view plane bounding box in the view coordinates.
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Part visibility works in the same manner as it did previously if the section view is
not skewed.
Miscellaneous
Welds
• When you welded a haunch profile to a beam, Tekla Structures
placed the weld incorrectly in model and in the drawings. Now the
weld is placed correctly.
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Rotating the model
• When using Ctrl + p to rotate a plane view to a 3D view manually,
Tekla Structures did not change to 3D snapping mode automatically.
Now Tekla Structures recognizes always whether the view is a plane
view or a 3D view.
Numbering
• The variable XS_USE_MULTI_NUMBERING_FOR in Tools > Advanced
options > Numbering works now correctly when used in the Advanced
options dialog box. The variable is also effective when you open an
another model in the same session.
• When you moved parts created by connections for example by mov-
ing the secondary part of the connection, the parts were not able to
keep the old part position number in multinumbering. This has been
fixed.
• You can now use the variable
XS_VALID_CHARS_FOR_ASSEMBLY_FAMILY_QUALIFIER in Tools
> Advanced options > Numbering to set valid letters for assembly fam-
ily numbers. Enter the letters you want to use, for example, ABEG. By
default letters A-Z are used.
Part labels
• When you add a user-defined attribute to a part label in model views,
the Display dialog box now shows which user-defined attribute you
selected.
• Entering a user-defined attribute part label longer than 255 characters
in the Part label dialog box generated an application error. This has
been fixed.
Surface treatment
• Now when you use the default value (1.00) for Thickness in the Sur-
face treatment dialog box, the value takes effect when you click Apply
or OK button.
• When defining tile patterns for tiled surface treatment, entering very
large values as tile offsets resulted in large thumbnail images, which
caused Tekla Structures to stall.
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Reference models
• DGN reference models were always displayed as transparent.
Chamfer
• When you opened the Chamfer properties dialog box by pressing Alt +
Enter keys and you had reference objects included in the area selec-
tion, Tekla Structures stalled. This has been fixed.
Sketching
• When you use the sketching tools to create cross sections, it is no
longer possible to save the sketches with prefixes similar to those
available in the library profile catalog. This has been done to avoid
confusion between library profiles and sketched profiles.
• When you used a sketched profile as a library profile the part was not
created correctly in all cases.
Polybeams
• For 3D polybeams, the length calculation based for unfolding gave
incorrect results. This has been fixed.
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Options dialog box
• In the US Imperial environment when you were modifying the Bolt
size option in Setup > Options dialog box, you had to save and load
the defaults after modifying the bolt size value on the dialog for the
changes to take affect. This has been fixed: now pressing the OK but-
ton is enough.
1.3 Drawings
Topics Hide and show objects in drawings (p. 20)
Automatic view name labels in drawings (p. 22)
View direction marks (p. 24)
Add prefix and postfix text to dimensions (p. 26)
Hide dimension values (p. 27)
3D views in drawings (p. 29)
Edit the properties of automatically created section view hatches (p. 31)
Templates and reports (p. 32)
Miscellaneous (p. 35)
You can display the ghost outline of hidden objects in drawing views by using
the Ghost outline command in Setup menu in the Drawing Editor. In the follow-
ing example the horizontal dimension line has been hidden and the ghost outline
of the dimension is visible.
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When you hide drawing objects, check that:
• Black and white drawing is not selected on the Setup menu. Use white
background with colored lines to show the ghost outlines of the hid-
den object.
• Ghost outline is selected on the Setup menu to have the ghost outlines
of objects appear visible.
To hide an object in a drawing view:
1. Select the object you wish to hide from a drawing view.
2. Right-click and select Hide/Unhide > Hide from view from the pop-up menu.
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To show an object in a drawing view:
1. Select the hidden object in the drawing view.
2. Right-click and select Hide/Unhide > Unhide in view from the pop-up menu.
If you want to hide or show an object in the drawing, follow the same instruc-
tions and select Hide in drawing or Unhide in drawing from the pop-up menu.
You can define whether to list the hidden objects in reports. To do this:
1. Go to Properties > Drawing...
2. Click Layout.
3. On the Drawing size tab, select the appropriate option in the List hidden
objects in reports list box.
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5. Modify the other properties if needed:
• Position: Define the location of the name label.
• Color: Define the color of the font in the name label.
• Height: Define the height of the font in the name label.
6. Click Modify and OK.
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View direction marks
You can now display view direction marks in section views and end views. The
view direction marks clarify the orientation of the views.
Use the Section view properties dialog box to display the view direction marks for
the end and section views. This saves you time and manual editing work: you can
have the marks inserted automatically in drawings.
The view direction is shown with a small symbol (optionally with a text label)
around the end or section view. You can define the symbol in Tools > Advanced
options > Drawing properties by using the variables:
• XS_DRAWING_VIEW_DIRECTION_MARK_BACK
• XS_DRAWING_VIEW_DIRECTION_MARK_BOTTOM
• XS_DRAWING_VIEW_DIRECTION_MARK_FRONT
• XS_DRAWING_VIEW_DIRECTION_MARK_TOP
The default is xsteel@66, which corresponds to the following symbol:
To display view direction marks for the end and section views:
1. In the drawing, right-click and select Properties... from the pop-up menu.
2. Click the View... button.
3. On the Views tab of the View properties dialog box, check that the option On
has been selected for section views and/or end views.
4. Click Modify and OK.
5. In the drawing properties dialog box, click the Section view... button.
6. On the Label tab, select the appropriate options in the Section views and End
views. The options are None, Symbol only, Label only, and Symbol and Label.
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Add prefix and postfix text to dimensions
Adding prefix and/or postfix text to dimensions is easy with Tekla Structures.
Also modifying to such dimension lines at a later time is faster.
To add prefix and/or postfix text to a dimension:
1. In a drawing view, double-click the dimension line to show the Dimension
properties dialog box.
2. On the General tab, enter the text in the Prefix and/or Postfix fields.
3. Click Modify.
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Press Alt and type 0177 on the numeric keypad to display the
plus-minus (±) sign.
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3. Click Modify.
If you hide the numeric value of the dimension, the prefix and
postfix texts that you may have added will still be shown.
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3D views in drawings
You can create 3D views in assembly and single part drawings. You can create
3D views interactively after the drawing has been created. This feature inserts 3D
views into fabrication drawings without you having to do it.
3D view
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Create a 3D view To create a 3D view in an existing drawing, click Create > View > Basic > 3D.
in drawing
Set or modify the You can set or modify the view angles with the options in the View properties dia-
view angles log box of the drawing. The angle settings apply only for the 3D view. To set or
modify the view angles:
1. Select the drawing view for the view angles you want to set or modify.
2. Right-click and select Properties... from the pop-up menu.
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3. Type in the values for the angles in y and x directions in the Rotation around
(in 3D views) fields. Rotation on a model view is around global axis, but rota-
tion on a drawing view is around local axis (rotation values 0.0 and 0.0 equal
Front view).
2. On the Fill tab, define the type for the hatch by selecting the appropriate
option in the Type list box. You can preview and select the options also by
clicking Select.
3. Modify the other properties if needed and click Apply or OK.. You can mod-
ify the following properties:
• Color: defines the color of the hatch
• Angle: defines the angle in which the pattern is represented
• Scale by: defines the size of the pattern
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The Type option is set to Automatic by default. You can switch off the hatching by
selecting None.
See also Hatching in section views in the online help.
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• The function GetValue("BOLT.SITE_WORKSHOP")did not return
the values to NUT and WASHER rows. This has been fixed.
• Aligning template fields with using the Align command now works
correctly.
• If you resized a filled polyline by streching it, the fill inside the
polyline did not scale correctly together with other objects in the
group. This has been fixed in the new Template Editor 3.30.
• Angle is displayed in the status bar for value fields.
• Formula IsSet("USERDEFINED.comment") now returns true if
the requested attribute’s value has been set, or false if the value has
not been set.
• The number of holes per part is now displayed correctly in reports.
• When you were writing a formula, which included an equation with a
condition clause in the following form:
if(A) then
...
else
...
endif ...
You were required to type a space character between the parenthesis and the
word "then" in order for the formula to work correctly. This is now fixed and
there is no need for typing in the space.
• In templates created with Template Editor version 3.20 the inch mark
is now placed correctly at the end of the length string (such as 11'-11
1/2") in the US Imperial environment.
• The attributes CONNECTION_CODE and
CONNECTION_RUNNING_NUMBER were missing from the list of avail-
able attributes in Select attribute dialog box. This has been fixed.
• The following attributes have been added for PART content type for
railings:
• PRODUCT_NAME
• RAIL_OFFSET
• RAIL_RADIUS
• RAIL_ANGLE
• DIMENSION_A
• DIMENSION_B
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• Sometimes when you were creating a polyline, the preview line,
which Template Editor draws before you click to define the next ver-
tex point, did not work correctly if the vertex point you clicked was
just outside the edge of the row. This has been fixed.
• The attribute MATERIAL_TYPE is now available also for CAST_UNIT
content type.
• When you opened a template with Template Editor 3.20 in US impe-
rial environment, you could not change the horizontal grid spacing.
This has been fixed in the new Template Editor 3.30.
• Now when you import files, you are asked to define the import
method in the Select Import Method dialog box as you place the
imported file in the template.
You can switch off this functionality by clearing the checkbox in the Always
ask for import method option in Options > Preferences dialog box.
• The default units are now read from the current environment you are
using.
• The DWG import now supports holes and islands in hatches.
• The template attribute WEIGHT_M now returns correct values for
parametric profiles.
• New attributes CAST_UNIT_PREFIX and
CAST_UNIT_SERIAL_NUMBER are now available in the new Tem-
plate Editor 3.30.
• You can now create PART content type rows underneath
SIMILAR_ASSEMBLY content type rows.
• The z coordinate was not included in assembly position codes in
Template Editor 3.2 even if you had set the variable
XS_ASSEMBLY_POSITION_CODE_3D to TRUE. This has been fixed.
• You can now use the text field NUMBER_IN_PHASE also in the new
template editor. It now works in the following manner: if you ask for
the number in phase for assemblies, parts or bolts, it returns the num-
ber of assemblies with the same position number belonging to the
given phase.
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• Lengths contained in the Profile field now have the inch mark in the
correct location in the US Imperial environment. For example, length
for plates is now displayed as PL1"X18 1/2".
If you want to display the inch mark before the fractions, such as
PL1"X18"1/2, set the variable
XS_PROFILE_DISPLAY_INCH_MARK_AFTER_FRACTIONS_IN_REPORTS
to FALSE in Tools > Advanced options > Templates and symbols. The
default is TRUE.
• When you use the Weld content type, you now have correctly only
one row for PRIMARY and SECONDARY attributes.
Miscellaneous
Drawing wizard
• When you used the Save as command in the drawing wizard to save a
drawing wizard with an another name, the default file type was incor-
rect due to a change in Windows XP SP2. This has been fixed.
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Orientation mark in single-part views
Now orientation marks are created for included single-part views in assembly
drawings. The visibility of the orientation mark is set as follows:
• Use variable XS_SINGLE_ORIENTATION_MARK, if the Single-part
attributes option is set to Current attributes (on the Assembly - layout
properties dialog box).
To modify the variable, click Tools > Advanced options... > Single part view in
assembly drawing. To set the variable, type in TRUE in the Value field.
Freeplace
• Text objects no longer move to a new location when the current loca-
tion is free.
• Text along line no longer overlaps other objects.
• The Freeplace command now appears in the associative notes pop-up
menu.
• Text objects no longer overlap associative notes when you use the
Freeplace command.
• The Restart freeplace command was missing from the Edit menu in
the French environment. This has been fixed.
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Drawing views
• Sometimes Tekla Structures created empty section views in addition
to the existing section views. If you deleted such a section view, the
actual section view with the same label was deleted. This has been
fixed.
• Creating undeformed drawings of parts that were not deformed could
have resulted in incorrect drawing views. This has been fixed.
• If the main part of an assembly was rising exactly in a 45 degree
angle, using the model coordinate system turned the drawing view
upside down. This has been fixed.
• Sometimes when the work plane was moved from the global origin,
included single part views had a very large drawing view frame around
them. This has now been fixed, and the work plane does not affect the
result.
• When you place a section view, detail view or a view that you have
created using the Create view from view command, you can now see
clearly where you are about to place the view. A symbol representing
the view that you are about to place now follows the mouse pointer
and shows the location where the view will be placed.
Dimensions
• Now the dimension line circular arrows are drawn with the same color
as the dimension line.
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Selecting drawing objects
• If you added drawing objects to an empty general arrangement draw-
ing, they disappeared and reappeared if only if you added a view in
the drawing. This has been fixed.
• Tekla Structures now displays the pop-up menu when you select two
welds and one additional drawing object in the Drawing Editor of an
assembly drawing.
Drawing layout
• Now when you double-click a drawing title block, Tekla Structures
displays a message to make sure that you want to start editing the
information with Template Editor.
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Placing text in drawings
• When you created text with the Text along line command with an
arrow at the start point, the arrow would point the wrong way if you
picked the points from right to left. This has been fixed.
Text along line when Text along line when
picked from right to left, picked from right to left,
created with Tekla Struc- created with Tekla
tures 11.2: Structures 11.3:
Multi-drawings
• New parts that you added to a model were not always added to an
existing multi-drawing even if you updated the drawing. This has
been fixed.
• On rare occasions linking drawings that contained single part views
to a multi-drawing generated an application error. This has been
fixed.
Associative notes
• When you create associative notes, the temporary snap override no
longer stays activated after you have picked the first position of the
leader line.
• On some occasions the box around an associative note was overlap-
ping the part. This has been fixed.
Drawing Classifier
• The Drawing Classifier did not create part marks for secondary parts
when you had set the visibility of the mark in all views to always.
This has been fixed.
Use only the new dialog box for defining values for pop-marks.
Do not use the pop_mark_parts.inp file for defining the values
for pop-marks anymore.
You can access the Pop-mark settings dialog box by clicking the Pop-Marks... but-
ton in the NC files dialog box. If the Pop-marks check box is selected, the pop-
mark settings are used when you create NC files. The Help… button displays an
online help page where NC file creation is explained.
In the Pop-mark settings dialog box you can define the following values for the
pop-marks:
• Main part profile type
• Main part name (you can enter several part names separated by commas)
• Secondary part profile type
• Secondary part name (you can enter several part names separated by com-
mas)
• Pop-mark location
• Move to flange
• Edge distance (distance from main part edge, decimal number)
Use Save to save your settings as the standard ones. The standard settings are
loaded automatically when you open the dialog box. If you need to vary your
standard settings for a particular project, make the changes and use Save as. Use
a unique name for these settings.
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The Pop-marking options tab corresponds to the Pop-marks tab in the previous NC
file settings dialog box.
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Use the variable XS_TUBE_UNWRAP_WITH_CUT_HOLES in Tools > Advanced
options > Drawing properties to enable the unwrapping of CHS profile parts and
include cut holes into the unwrapped solid.
This variable is set to TRUE by default. If you set it to FALSE, then the previously
applied unwrapping method is applied when producing CHS/PD profile parts
workshop form into drawings or NC files. With the previously applied method
cut holes cannot be included into the unwrapped solid.
You can now select whether to print RO (round tube) or B (plate) profile type in
the NC file header by using the variable
XS_TUBE_UNWRAP_USE_PLATE_PROFILE_TYPE_IN_NC in Tools > Advanced
options > CNC. The variable is set to TRUE by default to print B in the NC file
header. To print RO and to avoid affecting the profile type in DSTV, set the vari-
able to FALSE.
Use this variable only when you have set the variable
XS_TUBE_UNWRAP_WITH_CUT_HOLES to TRUE.
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• The IFC file header now includes more useful information, such as
the macro version and date, and the product and version the file was
made with.
Fixes
• Now when you import an IFC file with mapped presentations used
for flow segments, the flow segments (length, diameter and position)
are imported correctly to Tekla Structures.
• When you imported IFC files generated in Tekla Structures into other
software and your model contained walls with holes, there could have
been problems where walls with holes might not have been imported
or the holes might have been placed incorrectly. This has been fixed.
• The length of the file path is limited to 256 characters in IFC export.
Now when you enter too long a file path in the IFC export dialog box,
Tekla Structures displays a warning message in the application win-
dow.
Miscellaneous
NC files
• Slot options are now available for Peddimat file format in NC file set-
tings dialog box.
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KISS export
• When the variable XS_USE_NEW_PLATE_DESIGNATION was set to
TRUE, KISS export of plates modeled as beams was not correct. This
has been fixed.
• The length and width of plates were not switched correctly in KISS
or Steel2000 export when you had set the variable
XS_NEW_PLATE_DESIGNATION and
XS_CHECK_FLAT_LENGTH_ALSO to TRUE. This has been fixed.
• KISS import was not correct when the bolt diameter was 1", 2" or 3".
This has been fixed.
DWG/DFX export
• Now when you export files in DWG or DXF format, the ID of each
part is exported as an attribute and written into the export file for each
part.
• Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters are now plotted correctly
when you plot a drawing into DWG format.
Tekla Structures sets the codepage automatically so that the exported files
are displayed correctly. If the proper codepage cannot be found, the codep-
age is set to ansi_1252 by default. You can set the codepage manually by
using the variable XS_EXPORT_CODEPAGE, which overrides automatic
selection of codepage in export. If you set the variable to undefined, Tekla
Structures reverts to the way which was used in Tekla Structures 11.1 in
exporting files.
• 3D DWG and 3D DXF export contains a new option called Center
lines. The option uses lines located in the center of the profile cross
section in the export.
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Importing models
• In some occasions, SDNF import revision control considered that parts
were modified even when you had made no modifications due to part
end point positions being compared with too strict a tolerance. The
part end point tolerance has now been changed from 0.1 mm to 0.5
mm.
• You can now use Fit work area and Fit by parts > All views or Selected
views commands with import models. The Fit by parts command is
available in the pop-up menu when you have selected parts and right-
click. The Fit work area command is available when you have
selected a view. This makes it easier to distinguish which parts will
be imported.
CIS export
• CIS/2 export now works correctly for parametric profiles in the US
imperial environment.
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DSTV files
• When you created DSTV files for plates and you used all of the fol-
lowing settings:
• XS_USE_NEW_PLATE_DESIGNATION=TRUE
• XS_USE_FLAT_DESIGNATION=TRUE
• XS_CHECK_FLAT_LENGTH_ALSO=TRUE
and the plates had slot holes, the location of the holes might have been incor-
rect in the DSTV files. This has been fixed.
Below is a picture of the DSTV file from Tekla Structures 11.0-11.2:
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Web Viewer
• A new version of Web Viewer has been included in Tekla Structures
11.3. Web Viewer 1.26.10 offers for example:
• Smoother representation of pipes
• Increased size of clipboard buffer
• Faster downloading of models
• Occasional runtime errors could have occurred when you were viewing a
Web Viewer XML model in Internet Explorer. This has been fixed.
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Performing actions on custom components
Information regarding custom components is stored in the ComponentCatalog.txt
file, located in the model folder. If the properties of the file are set to read-only,
the following actions are not possible:
• adding to favorites
• adding to search results
• changing picture
• deleting the custom component
• editing keywords
• importing the custom component
• removing from search results
In these cases Tekla Structures displays a warning dialog box and the action is
cancelled.
Fixes
• You can now create a Yes/No value type variable to a fitting or a line
cut.
• A new Reinforcement mesh value type option has been added to the
Variables dialog box in the Custom component editor.
• New value type options Stud size and Stud standard have been added
to the Variables dialog box in the Custom component editor.
The new value types have fixed naming format: Px_size and Px_standard,
where the x is a number. Do not change the fixed name. To automatically
show values for these in the component's dialog box, x must be the same for
both, for example, P1_size and P1_standard.
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• Occasionally when you had exported a custom component and then
tried to import it into an another model, Tekla Structures could not
find the exported file of the custom component because it was miss-
ing the .uel file extension. This has been fixed.
• When you copied a part which included a custom detail that had a
Yes/No option to create parts in the detail, the parts were created to
the copied detail even if you had set the option to No in the properties
dialog box of the custom detail. This has been fixed.
• When you were editing a custom component and set the Yes/No value
type option of an object to No, saved the custom component and then
opened the Custom component editor again, the object was no longer
displayed in the editor. This has been fixed.
• When you used a reference function with user-defined attributes in
the Custom component editor, the function did not return the value of
the user-defined attributes correctly. This has been fixed.
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1.6 Components
Topics Connections (p. 52)
Miscellaneous connection fixes (p. 58)
Details (p. 60)
Modeling tools (p. 61)
Cold rolled (p. 63)
Connections
JP Full depth Special (185)
You can now create a connection similar to Beam with stiffener (129) with Full
depth Special (185) in the Japanese environment. Fixes have been made to allow
the connection to handle normal, skewed, sloped, and canted cases even with
tapering flanged channel primary profiles.
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Central gusset (169)
The new Central gusset (169) connects four bracings without using a main beam
by creating a gusset plate that can be bolted or welded to the brace. Bracings can
have different profile types or have twin profiles.
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To use the connection:
1. Click Ctrl + F to open the Component catalog, and search for the Central gus-
set (169) connection.
2. Double-click the component icon to open the Central gusset (169) dialog box.
3. Modify the properties, and click Apply or OK.
4. Pick the main part (brace).
5. Pick the secondary parts (three other braces).
6. Click the middle mouse button to create the connection.
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Comb filler plates for Two sided end plate (142) and End plate (144)
Comb filler plates are filler plates in the shape of a comb. You can now create a
connection with a comb filler plate using the Two sided end plate (142) and End
plate (144) connections. To create a connection with a comb filler plate:
1. Click Ctrl + F to open the Component catalog, and search for the Two sided
end plate (142) or End plate (144) connection.
4. Modify the other properties on the Plates tab if needed, and click Apply or
OK. Other properties available for comb filler plates are:
• Tolerance to define a separate tolerance for the comb filler plate.
• Fitting plate and Number of fitting pl. to define the number of
comb filler plates.
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5. Pick the main part.
6. Pick the secondary part.
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Two-sided clip angle (143)
In the Bolts tab, you can now define different horizontal bolt distances on differ-
ent sides of the connection.
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Miscellaneous connection fixes
• A new option Erection clearance is available for Boomerang bracing
cross (60), Boomerang tube diagonal (59) and Boomerang wrapped
diagonal (58) on the Gusset tab of the dialog box of the component.
• The option for web cut back distance on the Beam cut tab on Welded
to top flange (147) connection now works for beam-to-beam framing
condition.
• Doubler plates were chamfered on all four sides when you selected a
bevel. Now only the vertical edges of the doubler plate are beveled.
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• Notch size rounding is now working correctly in the horizontal direc-
tion in US Imperial environment.
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• When you used a gusset connection with a tube brace and you fitted
the gusset through the middle of the brace and added an extra gap
between the brace and the gusset, the end plate did not consider the
gap. This has been fixed.
• Settings for profile name, material, and prefixes were not considered
when you used the Windbracing (1) connection. This has been fixed.
• The value you had selected in the External design list box on the
Design type tab was not always used in AutoDefaults. This has been
fixed.
• Anchor rods take the numbering series now from Setup > Options dia-
log box.
• If the primary part was sloped, the shear plate clashed with the main
part flange in Full depth (184). This has been fixed.
• In the Endplate (29) connection, you can now define the distance
between the beam and seat on the Parameters tab.
• The Tube gusset (20) connection was not able to connect the gusset
plate to the base plate if the angle of the secondary was too large.
This has been fixed.
• The Stanchion side plate (83) connection now uses the correct welding
order to weld the plate to the stanchion.
• Shear plate simple (146) connection is now created in correct straight
vertical direction also for built-up sections.
• In Haunch (40) connection if the beam was situated asymmetrically to
the column, the stiffeners in the column were created to incorrect
position. This has been fixed.
Details
Base plate details
In base plate details, such as Base plate (1004) and Stiffened base plate (1014), the
option Leveling plate hole diameter works now also with anchor rods.
Handrailing (1024)
Adding a handrail to a part which was cut was not successful. In these cases
Tekla Structures displayed a warning message.
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Multiple stiffeners (1064)
• It is now easier to create standard size stiffener plates as you can use
the variable XS_STANDARD_STIFFENER_WIDTH_TOLERANCE also
with Multiple stiffeners (1064).
• This detail searches the standard stiffener widths now from flt-
props.inp file.
• The detail did not work with C (Channel) profiles. This has been
fixed.
• You can now define also the exact stiffener width for the detail.
Modeling tools
Bridging (S80) improvements
In Tekla Structures 11.3 the following improvements have been included in
Bridging (80):
• When two rafters are not perpendicular, the bridging spacings are
now calculated based on the longest purlin.
• The component always starts and ends a bridging run with a bolted
connection. If the first or last purlin is a FP* profile (Fascia Purlin),
you will get a fascia purlin connection.
• The ordering length of a bridging member is just as it is modeled.
The ordering code (for example H2C20PL20) is saved in the Profile
property of the part. The bridging type (for example BHP-HOOK-
LOKII) is saved in the Name property of the part.
• A Speedy Spacer profile type has been added.
• The Parameters tab has been improved so that you can access the
options you need to use more easily, as unnecessary options have
been removed.
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Miscellaneous
• In Zinc coating hole (S61) the default cut length of the bolt has been
changed: it is now twice as long as the plate thickness so that the hole
penetrates the plate completely.
• In Tapered Beam (S98) improvements have been made on the Parame-
ters tab in the French environment where options are now translated
correctlyand the length of list boxes has been extended.
• Due to overlapping connection numbers, you could not use some pur-
lin connections with Building (S91).
You can now use the purlin connections with Building (S91), but
in order for them to work correctly:
1. Set Connection type to Standard.
2. Use the internal connection number of the connection as
the Connection name. You can find out the internal connec-
tion number by inquiring an existing connection.
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Cold rolled
Ayrshire
• Modifications have been made to CAM files to include the following
fields: SectionType, SectionSize, ProductName, ProductType,
SleeveLength.
• AyrshireTrans.dat has been changed to include two new columns: DB
Product Name and Section Size.
Fixes
• The purlin cleat weld is now placed correctly in the Cold rolled over-
lap and Cold rolled sleeved connections.
• When you set the option Type of anti-sag to Default in Albion Std. Anti-
Sag Bay (62), Tekla Structures did not create the connection and gave
out an unrequired warning message.
• In Cold Rolled Overlap (1) Tekla Structures now creates all the bolts
based on the lap offset value and connects a stay to the heel of a chan-
nel rafter correctly.
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2 Tekla Structures 11.3
Precast Concrete
Detailing
Tekla Structures version 11.3 is a sub release and contains many new features
and fixes.
Compatibility Tekla Structures 11.3 is compatible with all previous versions. You can open and
work with existing models using Tekla Structures 11.3., except for the following
features:
• Multiple lines of text. The drawing texts are stored as XML strings
into database, also the one line texts. If you open a model, saved with
Tekla Structures 11.2 or 11.3 in version 11.1 or 11.0, the XML texts
are shown as they are.
• Surface treatment. Surface treatments made with Tekla Structures
11.2 or 11.3 are not editable with previous versions of Tekla Struc-
tures.
We suggest that you complete any models you have started using your current
version.
Once you save a model in Tekla Structures 11.3, you can open it
in Tekla Structures 11.0, 11.1 and 11.2 but not in older versions,
in Xsteel, or in Xengineer.
Installing Tekla Structures setup creates a new subfolder for Tekla Structures 11.3.
You need Windows Administrator rights to install Tekla Structures 11.3. This
ensures that all Windows system folder *.dll files are updated.
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Topics This chapter is divided into following sections:
• General (p. 66)
• Modeling (p. 74)
• Drawings (p. 83)
• Import and export (p. 106)
• Custom components (p. 111)
• Components (p. 115)
• Reinforcement (p. 117)
2.1 General
This section describes the following new features and fixes:
Topics Summing of rows in templates (p. 66)
New Template editor - version 3.30 (p. 68)
Improvements in View properties dialog box (p. 69)
Release notes (p. 71)
Log file (p. 72)
Inquire dialog box (p. 72)
Locking objects (p. 73)
Using the Advanced options dialog box (p. 73)
Performance improvements (p. 74)
The change makes the functionality more logical and allows certain other func-
tionalities to work.
Previously, the Total function calculated all objects in the sum, even when you
had not selected the option Sum values across all rows. The following example
shows how the change affects templates:
• An additional value field has been added to the row in the template,
which is used to sum the weight values across all rows.
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• This value field is then used, when the total sum is calculated.
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The report templates which are included in Tekla Structures have been updated
to sum the rows in templates correctly.
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Display dialog The View setup dialog box is now named Display. To open the dialog box, click
box Display in the View properties dialog box.
You can now select all the checkboxes at the same time on the Display dialog box
by selecting All (In model and/or In components). The uppermost checkboxes are
also automatically cleared if you clear any of the checkboxes under them.
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Release notes
• You can now access the Release notes from the Help menu by select-
ing Help > Release notes when the Tekla Structures online help is
installed. When you click the Release notes option, the start page of
the Release notes opens in the online help.
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Log file
• When the warning message ’Cannot find center point for chamfer’ is
shown, the log file now includes also the object ID. If the object has cir-
cular chamfers with 0.0 radius, the warning message is not shown in
the log file.
• The log file no longer displays unrequired warning messages about
template attributes that were unrelated to the profile in use. To see the
warning messages, set the variable
XS_SHOW_TEMPLATE_LOG_MESSAGES to TRUE in Tools > Advanced
options > Templates and symbols. The variable is set to FALSE by
default.
• Tekla Structures displayed unrequired warning messages in the log
file about duplicate attribute names in custom components in situa-
tions where the custom components did not have variables. This has
been fixed.
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• The Inquire object dialog box shows the connection position type.
Locking objects
If you try to modify a locked object, Tekla Structures shows the message "There
are locked objects, see report. The operation could not be performed." and a
report on access rights.
Previously, this report was created using a template called ownership_report.rpt.
Now the report template is called locked_objects_report.rpt.
• When you open the Advanced options dialog box, it will now open at
the same location as the last time you used the dialog box.
• The variable XS_FIRM works now correctly even when you have
defined it both in the Advanced options dialog box and in the batch
file.
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You can set variables by using the Advanced options dialog box
or by editing the user.bat file.We recommend that you only use
one of these methods to set variables. The variable settings in
the Advanced options dialog box override those in the batch
files.
Performance improvements
• Opening views that contain parts with surface treatments is now
much faster.
2.2 Modeling
Topics Create concrete beam by two points (p. 74)
Cast-in-place cast units (p. 75)
Improvements in copying and moving of cast-in embeds (p. 76)
Part reference line (p. 77)
Moving and selecting objects (p. 78)
Running and recording macros (p. 78)
Part visibility (p. 78)
Miscellaneous (p. 79)
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1. Double-click the Create concrete beam or Create concrete polybeam
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To define a concrete part’s cast unit type as Cast in place:
1. Right-click and select Properties...
2. Go to the Cast unit tab.
3. Select Cast in place as the Cast unit type.
You can define Cast in place as the cast unit type for the following kind of con-
crete parts:
• Pad footings
• Strip footings
• Concrete columns
• Concrete beams and polybeams
• Concrete slabs
• Concrete panels
The cast unit type of concrete main part is always checked when a cast unit is
created or modified in order to prevent mixing up pre-cast and cast-in-place parts
inside a cast unit. This feature is included in Precast Detailing (PCD) or Full
detailing (FD) configurations.
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• If the cast-unit embed is copied inside the bounding box of the whole
cast unit, the previous main part is accepted as the cast-unit to belong
to and the copied part stays in that cast unit.
You can define the visibility of the part reference line in the Display dialog box.
To display the part reference line:
1. Go to Properties > View...
2. Click the Display... button to open the Display dialog box.
3. On the Advanced tab, select Part reference line.
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Moving and selecting objects
• Tekla Structures warns you when you are placing objects outside the
view depth or work area to prevent the objects from being hidden. The
warning is now given only when the object is completely outside the
view depth or work area.
Part visibility
Previously, view depths with skewed view planes were not taken into account cor-
rectly in part visibility. Now the part visibility works as follows:
Part bounding box is transformed to view plane, if the section view is skewed.
The part will not be visible in the view if the part bounding box does not intersect
with the view plane bounding box in the view coordinates.
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Part visibility works in the same manner as it did previously if the section view is
not skewed.
Miscellaneous
Welds
• When you welded a haunch profile to a beam, Tekla Structures
placed the weld incorrectly in model and in the drawings. Now the
weld is placed correctly.
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Rotating the model
• When using Ctrl + p to rotate a plane view to a 3D view manually,
Tekla Structures did not change to 3D snapping mode automatically.
Now Tekla Structures recognizes always whether the view is a plane
view or a 3D view.
Numbering
• When you had set the Part number type as Combined assembly / part
number in the Options dialog box, family numbering did not work
correctly. This has been fixed.
• The variable XS_USE_MULTI_NUMBERING_FOR in Tools > Advanced
options > Numbering works now correctly when used in the Advanced
options dialog box. The variable is also effective when you open an
another model in the same session.
• When you moved parts created by connections for example by mov-
ing the secondary part of the connection, the parts were not able to
keep the old part position number in multinumbering. This has been
fixed.
• You can now use the variable
XS_VALID_CHARS_FOR_ASSEMBLY_FAMILY_QUALIFIER in Tools
> Advanced options > Numbering to set valid letters for assembly fam-
ily numbers. Enter the letters you want to use, for example, ABEG. By
default letters A-Z are used.
Part labels
• When you add a user-defined attribute to a part label in model views,
the Display dialog box now shows which user-defined attribute you
selected.
• Entering a user-defined attribute part label longer than 255 characters
in the Part label dialog box generated an application error. This has
been fixed.
Surface treatment
• Now when you use the default value (1.00) for Thickness in the Sur-
face treatment dialog box, the value takes effect when you click Apply
or OK button.
• When defining tile patterns for tiled surface treatment, entering very
large values as tile offsets resulted in large thumbnail images, which
caused Tekla Structures to stall.
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The size of repeated tile pattern is now restricted to 2000 x 2000
mm. If you enter larger values the tile surface will not be
formed.
Parametric modeling
• Seam parts were in some cases positioned incorrectly when the seam
input parts were warped and the main or secondary parts contained
asymmetric sketched profiles with connection planes.
Inquire
• The highlight color of the primary part of a cast unit has been changed
to magenta.
Reference models
• DGN reference models were always displayed as transparent.
Chamfer
• When you opened the Chamfer properties dialog box by pressing Alt +
Enter keys and you had reference objects included in the area selec-
tion, Tekla Structures stalled. This has been fixed.
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Sketching
• When you use the sketching tools to create cross sections, it is no
longer possible to save the sketches with prefixes similar to those
available in the library profile catalog. This has been done to avoid
confusion between library profiles and sketched profiles.
• When you used a sketched profile as a library profile the part was not
created correctly in all cases.
Polybeams
• For 3D polybeams, the length calculation based for unfolding gave
incorrect results. This has been fixed.
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2.3 Drawings
Topics Hide and show objects in drawings (p. 83)
Automatic view name labels in drawings (p. 85)
View direction marks (p. 87)
Add prefix and postfix text to dimensions (p. 89)
3D views in drawings (p. 92)
Hide dimension values (p. 91)
Edit the properties of automatically created section view hatches (p. 94)
Reinforcing bar bend and end marks (p. 95)
Templates and reports (p. 99)
Miscellaneous (p. 101)
You can display the ghost outline of hidden objects in drawing views by using
the Ghost outline command in Setup menu in the Drawing Editor. In the follow-
ing example the reinforcement pull-outs have been hidden and the ghost outlines
of the pull-outs are visible.
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• Ghost outline is selected on the Setup menu to have the ghost outlines
of objects appear visible.
To hide an object in a drawing view:
1. Select the object you wish to hide from a drawing view.
2. Right-click and select Hide/Unhide > Hide from view from the pop-up menu.
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Automatic view name labels in drawings
You can define the view names for front, top, back and bottom views in the draw-
ing properties dialog box. The automatic view name labels feature inserts labels
into drawing views without you having to do it manually.
To define view names for front, top, back and bottom views:
1. Go to Properties > Drawing...
2. In the drawing properties dialog box, click the View... button to open the
drawing view properties dialog box.
3. On the Views tab, check that the On option is selected for the views, whose
name label you want displayed.
4. On the Labels tab, define the names for the labels in the Front view, Top view,
Back view, and Bottom view fields.
5. Modify the other properties if needed:
• Position: Define the location of the name label.
• Color: Define the color of the font in the name label.
• Height: Define the height of the font in the name label.
6. Click Modify and OK.
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View direction marks
You can now display view direction marks in section views and end views. The
view direction marks clarify the orientation of the views.
Use the Section view properties dialog box to display the view direction marks for
the end and section views. This saves you time and manual editing work: you can
have the marks inserted automatically in drawings.
The view direction is shown with a small symbol (optionally with a text label)
around the end or section view. You can define the symbol in Tools > Advanced
options > Drawing properties by using the variables:
• XS_DRAWING_VIEW_DIRECTION_MARK_BACK
• XS_DRAWING_VIEW_DIRECTION_MARK_BOTTOM
• XS_DRAWING_VIEW_DIRECTION_MARK_FRONT
• XS_DRAWING_VIEW_DIRECTION_MARK_TOP
The default is xsteel@66, which corresponds to the following symbol:
To display view direction marks for the end and section views:
1. In the drawing, right-click and select Properties... from the pop-up menu.
2. Click the View... button.
3. On the Views tab of the View properties dialog box, check that the option On
has been selected for section views and/or end views.
4. Click Modify and OK.
5. In the drawing properties dialog box, click the Section view... button.
6. On the Label tab, select the appropriate options in the Section views and End
views. The options are None, Symbol only, Label only, and Symbol and Label.
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Add prefix and postfix text to dimensions
Adding prefix and/or postfix text to dimensions is easy with Tekla Structures.
Also modifying to such dimension lines at a later time is faster.
To add prefix and/or postfix text to a dimension:
1. In a drawing view, double-click the dimension line to show the Dimension
properties dialog box.
2. On the General tab, enter the text in the Prefix and/or Postfix fields.
3. Click Modify.
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The prefix and postfix values cannot be plain numbers. Also,
the prefix value cannot end with a number and the postfix value
cannot start with a number when the numeric value of the
dimension is visible.
Press Alt and type 0177 on the numeric keypad to display the
plus-minus (±) sign.
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Hide dimension values
To hide the dimension line numeric value:
1. Double-click a dimension line to show the Dimension properties dialog box.
2. On the General tab, select Hidden in the Visibility of numeric value list box.
3. Click Modify.
If you hide the numeric value of the dimension, the prefix and
postfix texts that you may have added will still be shown.
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3D views in drawings
You can create 3D views in cast-unit drawings. You can create 3D views interac-
tively after the drawing has been created. This feature inserts 3D views into fab-
rication drawings without you having to do it.
3D view
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Create a 3D view To create a 3D view in an existing drawing, click Create > View > Basic > 3D.
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Set or modify the You can set or modify the view angles with the options in the View properties dia-
view angles log box of the drawing. The angle settings apply only for the 3D view. To set or
modify the view angles:
1. Select the drawing view for the view angles you want to set or modify.
2. Right-click and select Properties... from the pop-up menu.
3. Type in the values for the angles in y and x directions in the Rotation around
(in 3D views) fields. Rotation on a model view is around global axis, but rota-
tion on a drawing view is around local axis (rotation values 0.0 and 0.0 equal
Front view).
2. On the Fill tab, define the type for the hatch by selecting the appropriate
option in the Type list box. You can preview and select the options also by
clicking Select.
3. Modify the other properties if needed and click Apply or OK.. You can mod-
ify the following properties:
• Color: defines the color of the hatch
• Angle: defines the angle in which the pattern is represented
• Scale by: defines the size of the pattern
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The Type option is set to Automatic by default. You can switch off the hatching by
selecting None.
See also Hatching in section views in the online help.
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Variables The following new variables have been added to Tools > Advanced options > Con-
crete Detailing:
• XS_REBAR_BEND_MARK_SYMBOL_MIN_SIZE and
XS_REBAR_END_SYMBOL_MIN_SIZE
• You can use these variables to increase the size of the bend and
end symbols (in drawing units) in order to see them more clearly.
• By default not set.
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• XS_REBAR_REVERSE_END_SYMBOLS
• You can use this variable to change the end symbols to a differ-
ent direction.
• By setting this variable to true the end symbol is drawn at 135
degree angle (used commonly in Norway).
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Templates and reports
Fixes available in the new Template Editor 3.30
• Aligning text with value fields now works correctly.
• You can now use parentheses inside rules with string parameters.
• You can now undo a template type change, for example, from graphi-
cal template to textual template.
• The function GetValue("BOLT.SITE_WORKSHOP")did not return
the values to NUT and WASHER rows. This has been fixed.
• Aligning template fields with using the Align command now works
correctly.
• If you resized a filled polyline by streching it, the fill inside the
polyline did not scale correctly together with other objects in the
group. This has been fixed in the new Template Editor 3.30.
• Angle is displayed in the status bar for value fields.
• Formula IsSet("USERDEFINED.comment") now returns true if
the requested attribute’s value has been set, or false if the value has
not been set.
• The number of holes per part is now displayed correctly in reports.
• When you were writing a formula, which included an equation with a
condition clause in the following form:
if(A) then
...
else
...
endif ...
You were required to type a space character between the parenthesis and the
word "then" in order for the formula to work correctly. This is now fixed and
there is no need for typing in the space.
• In templates created with Template Editor version 3.20 the inch mark
is now placed correctly at the end of the length string (such as 11'-11
1/2") in the US Imperial environment.
• The attributes CONNECTION_CODE and
CONNECTION_RUNNING_NUMBER were missing from the list of avail-
able attributes in Select attribute dialog box. This has been fixed.
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• The following attributes have been added for PART content type for
railings:
• PRODUCT_NAME
• RAIL_OFFSET
• RAIL_RADIUS
• RAIL_ANGLE
• DIMENSION_A
• DIMENSION_B
• The default units are now read from the current environment you are
using.
• The DWG import now supports holes and islands in hatches.
• The template attribute WEIGHT_M now returns correct values for
parametric profiles.
• New attributes CAST_UNIT_PREFIX and
CAST_UNIT_SERIAL_NUMBER are now available in the new Tem-
plate Editor 3.30.
• You can now create PART content type rows underneath
SIMILAR_ASSEMBLY content type rows.
• The z coordinate was not included in assembly position codes in
Template Editor 3.2 even if you had set the variable
XS_ASSEMBLY_POSITION_CODE_3D to TRUE. This has been fixed.
• Lengths contained in the Profile field now have the inch mark in the
correct location in the US Imperial environment. For example, length
for plates is now displayed as PL1"X18 1/2".
If you want to display the inch mark before the fractions, such as
PL1"X18"1/2, set the variable
XS_PROFILE_DISPLAY_INCH_MARK_AFTER_FRACTIONS_IN_REPORTS
to FALSE in Tools > Advanced options > Templates and symbols. The
default is TRUE.
• When you use the Weld content type, you now have correctly only
one row for PRIMARY and SECONDARY attributes.
Miscellaneous
Drawing wizard
• You can now create cast-unit drawings with the help of the drawing
wizard. This saves time while you create cast unit drawings in a more
automated way for all or several precast part types.
To modify the variable, click Tools > Advanced options... > Single part view in
assembly drawing. To set the variable, type in TRUE in the Value field.
Freeplace
• Text objects no longer move to a new location when the current loca-
tion is free.
• Text along line no longer overlaps other objects.
• The Freeplace command now appears in the associative notes pop-up
menu.
• Text objects no longer overlap associative notes when you use the
Freeplace command.
• The Restart freeplace command was missing from the Edit menu in
the French environment. This has been fixed.
Dimensions
• Now the dimension line circular arrows are drawn with the same color
as the dimension line.
Drawing layout
• Now when you double-click a drawing title block, Tekla Structures
displays a message to make sure that you want to start editing the
information with Template Editor.
Multi-drawings
• New parts that you added to a model were not always added to an
existing multi-drawing even if you updated the drawing. This has
been fixed.
• On rare occasions linking drawings that contained single part views
to a multi-drawing generated an application error. This has been
fixed.
Associative notes
• When you create associative notes, the temporary snap override no
longer stays activated after you have picked the first position of the
leader line.
• On some occasions the box around an associative note was overlap-
ping the part. This has been fixed.
Drawing Classifier
• The Drawing Classifier did not create part marks for secondary parts
when you had set the visibility of the mark in all views to always.
This has been fixed.
• The IFC file header now includes more useful information, such as
the macro version and date, and the product and version the file was
made with.
Fixes
• Now when you import an IFC file with mapped presentations used
for flow segments, the flow segments (length, diameter and position)
are imported correctly to Tekla Structures.
• When you imported IFC files generated in Tekla Structures into other
software and your model contained walls with holes, there could have
been problems where walls with holes might not have been imported
or the holes might have been placed incorrectly. This has been fixed.
Miscellaneous
DWG/DFX export
• Now when you export files in DWG or DXF format, the ID of each
part is exported as an attribute and written into the export file for each
part.
• Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters are now plotted correctly
when you plot a drawing into DWG format.
Tekla Structures sets the codepage automatically so that the exported files
are displayed correctly. If the proper codepage cannot be found, the codep-
age is set to ansi_1252 by default. You can set the codepage manually by
using the variable XS_EXPORT_CODEPAGE, which overrides automatic
selection of codepage in export. If you set the variable to undefined, Tekla
Structures reverts to the way which was used in Tekla Structures 11.1 in
exporting files.
• 3D DWG and 3D DXF export contains a new option called Center
lines. The option uses lines located in the center of the profile cross
section in the export.
Importing models
• In some occasions, SDNF import revision control considered that parts
were modified even when you had made no modifications due to part
end point positions being compared with too strict a tolerance. The
part end point tolerance has now been changed from 0.1 mm to 0.5
mm.
CIS export
• CIS/2 export now works correctly for parametric profiles in the US
imperial environment.
• Occasional runtime errors could have occurred when you were viewing a
Web Viewer XML model in Internet Explorer. This has been fixed.
Fixes
• You can now create a Yes/No value type variable to a fitting or a line
cut.
• Tekla Structures did not display handles for custom parts that con-
tained only reinforcing bars. This has been fixed.
• A new Reinforcement mesh value type option has been added to the
Variables dialog box in the Custom component editor.
• New value type options Stud size and Stud standard have been added
to the Variables dialog box in the Custom component editor.
The new value types have fixed naming format: Px_size and Px_standard,
where the x is a number. Do not change the fixed name. To automatically
show values for these in the component's dialog box, x must be the same for
both, for example, P1_size and P1_standard.
See also Use custom components as lifting anchors in Lifting anchor (80) (p. 115)
3. Click the browse button (...) next to the Custom field to find the correct cus-
tom component in the component catalog.
Modeling tools
Miscellaneous
• Deleting a cut caused Slab bars (18) modeling tool to stall. This has
been fixed.
• In Zinc coating hole (S61) the default cut length of the bolt has been
changed: it is now twice as long as the plate thickness so that the hole
penetrates the plate completely.
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• In Tapered Beam (S98) improvements have been made on the Parame-
ters tab in the French environment where options are now translated
correctlyand the length of list boxes has been extended.
• Due to overlapping connection numbers, you could not use some pur-
lin connections with Building (S91).
You can now use the purlin connections with Building (S91), but
in order for them to work correctly:
1. Set Connection type to Standard.
2. Use the internal connection number of the connection as
the Connection name. You can find out the internal connec-
tion number by inquiring an existing connection.
2.7 Reinforcement
Topics Improvements in reinforcement components (p. 117)
Miscellaneous (p. 120)
• You can now control the end distances (top and bottom) and the spac-
ing separately for top and bottom with the options on the Primary ties
tab.
Miscellaneous
• Part of the reinforcing bars in a reinforcement mesh were occasionally
not displayed when you zoomed closer in a view. This has been fixed.
• Parts without any reinforcing bars were affected by the numbering
setting Compare Reinforcing bars. This has been fixed.
Tekla Structures 11.3 Analysis and Design module contains the following new
features and fixes:
Visualization of analysis model (p. 121)
Improvements in beam restraints (p. 123)
Miscellaneous (p. 124)
Connected
Supported
Supported
Supported
The Select objects button in the Analysis & Design models dialog box has been
divided into Select objects and Draw buttons. Before you can use these buttons,
you need to run the analysis. If the analysis is not yet run, click the Create model
button to create the analysis model.
Color Member
Dark blue rigid link
Grey composite beam
Green truss member
Light blue slab or panel edge
Red normal member
Violet truss member, tension
only
Yellow truss member, compres-
sion only
Miscellaneous
STAAD.Pro help files
• You can access the STAAD.Pro help files now from the STAAD.Pro
Help menu or by pressing the F1 key in STAAD.Pro.
Miscellaneous
• You can now see the instruction messages for object group related
information in the Object representation dialog box.