I am Dawid, an independent programmer who creates macros for Tekla Structures. I was a steel detailer, and I have experience with Tekla Structures models and drawings.

My macros can help you with industrial steel structures. I sell them in subscription, which you can purchase on this website. The subscription price depends on the number of computers and selected programs.

💰 About prices: Programming custom solutions is an expensive and time-consuming task. I don’t do it anymore. I decided to make products and sell them for 1/100 of their real cost.

In our studies, we learned that dimension lines should extend slightly beyond the endpoints by 1-2 mm. However, in Tekla Structures, the default setting causes dimension lines to end flush with no extension. To achieve extended dimension lines, I need to manually adjust this setting for each project. It’s crucial to do this before generating drawings, as this option won’t affect dimensions that have already been created.

How to extend dimension line on drawing?

In my enviroment the dimension line ends with last dimension point like in picture bellow:

But I always wanted the extended dimension line:

The extension option is not avaiable in dimension dialog box but can be found in main program options:

Menu > Settings > Options > Drawing Dimensions:

After change only new created dimensions will have extended line.