In Tekla Structures, excessively long elements on drawings are automatically shortened. A gap appears in the middle of the view, where a symbol indicating the shortening is drawn. Unfortunately, the style of this symbol cannot be adjusted in the drawing options, leading to significant user frustration. However, few people know that the style of the shortening symbol can be set globally for the entire project in the advanced options.
How to change shortening symbol?
Options are not avaiable in drawing or view properties. Shortening symbol can be only changed globaly in advanced options:
XS_SHORTENING_SYMBOL_COLOR = 153 or 154-163
XS_SHORTENING_SYMBOL_LINE_TYPE = 1 or 2-7
XS_SHORTENING_SYMBOL_WITH_ZIGZAG = FALSE or TRUE
Color numbers:
Line types:
Example 1:
Example 2:
Example 3:
