Drawing mode screen layout

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Interactive editing tools that you can use for adding dimensions, various drawing shapes,
texts, additional annotations, symbols, and links in the drawings.
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Standard and customized drawing layouts. Tekla Structures contains many ready-to-use
standard drawing layouts. You can also create your own.
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Export capabilities.
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Printing to paper, file and PDF.
See also Basic principles of drawings on page 18
Modifying drawing settings on page 307
Automatic drawing views on page 350
Creating drawings on page 25
Cloning drawings on page 91
Editing drawings on page 114
Working with drawings on page 272
Printing drawings on page 280
Exporting a drawing to a 2D DWG or DXF file...
1.2 Drawing mode screen layout
When you open a drawing, Tekla Structures activates the drawing mode. The menus and
icons for the modeling mode are replaced by those of the drawing mode. The model views
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Drawing mode screen layout
remain on the screen behind the drawing. The following image identifies the various areas of
the drawing window:
1. Menus contain all commands available in the drawing mode.
2. Basic tools for working with drawings.
3. Commands for creating dimensions and objects.
4. Select switches determine the selectable objects.
5. Snap settings control which points you can snap to and pick.
See also Filtering in drawings
Interface overview
Snap switches
Selection switches
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Drawing layout and views