The toolbar Select switches contains switches which control the selection of objects.
For example If only the Point switch is active, Tekla Structures only selects points:
Dragging the mouse, i.e. holding down the left mouse button and drawing a rect-angle with the mouse, selects all objects within that rectangular area and high-lights them.
To select all objects in the model, you can make use of the command Edit >
Select all objects or use shortkey <Ctrl> + a.
To select or deselect objects from the model manually, press the <Shift> or the
<Ctrl> key while selecting the objects.
The select switches are predefined to select all objects, accept single bolts (or The command Select all objects takes the settings in the Select switches into account and also the setting of the select filter at that time, for example the column- or the beam filter.
The main advantage is that no objects will be forgotten when they are selected!
This command takes the filter settings of the view not into account! If, e.g. phase 1 is set, all the other objects in other phases will still be selected!
Key Description
SHIFT To add objects to the current selection
CTRL To toggle the current selection on and off. Tekla Structures deselects the objects, which are already selected and selects those, which are not previously selected
ALT To select the entire assembly containing that part ALT Gr SHIFT + ALT
Explanation of the icons:
Grid lines Select objects in
components
Welds Select assemblies
Cuts Select objects in
assemblies
Views Filter
Bolts Select filter
dia-log box
The switches Reinforcing bars and Loads are only in use with the Concrete and/or Analysis & Design add-ons to select rein-forcing bars and loads.
Planes and distances are used for custom components.
Select filters Tekla Structures contains several standard select filters. Using the Select Filter, you can select more specified objects. Using a filter, e.g. the column_filter, only columns will be selected in the model. The select filter list box lists the standard filters:
Defining your own filters
1. Use the Display select filter dialog button to open the Select filter dialog box.
2. Find a filter which is close to the settings you need.
3. Modify the settings, then enter a new name in the Save as field.
4. Click <Save>, then <OK> to exit.
You can now select the new filter in the list.
To apply a filter, select one from the list.
Displays the Select filter dialog box.
Define and adjust fil-ters
Selecting
The icons in the Select Switches toolbar are used to define which objects can be selected:
If you activate switch 1, you can select every level of an component, from the highest level downwards to loose parts in components.
If you activate switch 2, the select order is opposite: from the lowest level (loose parts in components) to the highest level.
If you activate switch 3, you can select every level of an assembly, from the high-est level, through sub-assemblies, downwards to the loose parts.
You use this switch to copy objects correctly, by which all parts of an assembly are selected and copied. So with this switch you select complete assemblies.
Example See the following situation:
Activate switch 3. Select the beam and copy it:
A beam with macro End plate detail (1002).
Two zinc coating holes have been added apart from the macro, so added to the end plate manually.
The selected assembly, including the manually modelled zinc coating holes are copied correctly.
If you activate switch 4, the select order is opposite:, from loose parts (lowest level) to complete assemblies (highest level).
The level of a selected assembly is displayed in the Status bar:
Level 0 Level 1
To shift to a specific level in an assembly, while the assembly is highlighted, hold down the <Shift> key and scroll the mouse wheel. The large assembly gets 0 (null), the smaller assembly gets 1, etcetera. You can continue to level 9:
The four switches above only work in rendered views, not in wire views.
Level 1 Level 0
Generating output
While generating reports, drawings, NC files or other types of output, you always make use of switch 2 to select all parts!
Switch 1 selects at the highest level, because of that, stiffeners or end plates, created by a component, will highlight but will not be selected!!!
Example A beam + 2 end plates:
If you activate switch 1, only the beam will appear on the list:
If you activate switch 2, both end plates and beam will appear on the list:
Super assemblies You add sub-assemblies and parts to already existing assemblies. A sub-assem-bly is an assemsub-assem-bly that is added to another assemsub-assem-bly to form a hierarchical assembly. We use the term super assemblies to describe this type of assembly.
Using super assemblies is useful when you are modeling split trusses, brackets, railings or pipe racks, for example.
See also For more information about super assemblies, see Tekla Structures.pdf in the folder:
disk:\TeklaStructures\version\environments\europe\pdf.