SkillMaster for Drawings. Text description and gif-animations. Part 1.

Main functions for Drawings:

If you start use SkillMaster from SaprApps plugin it will add extra hotkeys in Tekla Structures. 

About functions for Model you can read here: PART1, PART2.

Functions for Drawings. Full list:

Ctrl+Shift+ 1 – Attributes loading. Object type «View».

Ctrl+Shift+ 2 – Attributes loading. Object type «Grid».

Ctrl+Shift+ 3 – Attributes loading. Object type «Dimension».

Ctrl+Shift+ 4 – Attributes loading. Object type «Part».

Ctrl+Shift+ 0 – Part color changing.

Ctrl+Shift+ ↑ – View(views) moving. 10 mm up.

Ctrl+Shift+ ↓ – View(views) moving. 10 mm down.

Ctrl+Shift+ → – View(views) moving. 10 mm right.

Ctrl+Shift+ ← – View(views) moving. 10 mm left.

Ctrl+Shift+ PageUp – View  counterclockwise rotate.

Ctrl+Shift+ PageDown – View clockwise rotate.

Ctrl+Shift+ «-» – View scale changing. Increase.

Ctrl+Shift+ «+» – View scale changing. Decrease.

Esc (Del) – Stop “changing mode”.

Ctrl+F1…F4 – Format changing. A1…A4. Portrait.

Shift+F1…F4 – Format changing. A1…A4. Landscape.

Ctrl+Shift+ { – Shortening changing. Increase.

Ctrl+Shift+ } – Shortening changing. Decrease.

Hotkey Ctrl+Shift+1 loads an attribute for view from full attribute list:

Algorithm (sequence using):

• Pick first view, maybe few views.
• Press Ctrl+Shift+1
• “Changing mode” is starting
• Move cursor (up and down) on monitor and watch changes
• Choose attribute name
• Stop “Changing mode”. There are 3 ways to do it: press “Esc” or  press “Del” or press hotkey that you press before

If you want to reduce full attribute list you will use filter. Write text string and use only attribute names which contains this string

Hotkey Ctrl+Shift+2 is loading attribute for grid from current attribute list:

Hotkey Ctrl+Shift+3 is loading attribute for dimension from current attribute list:

Hotkey Ctrl+Shift+4 is loading attribute for part from current attribute list:

Functions Ctrl+Shift+1...4 are real attributes loading with all properties setting.

Hotkey Ctrl+Shift+0 is changing color of part:

Ctrl+Shift+ ↑↓→← – orthogonal view(views) moving.

Ctrl+Shift+ PageUp/PageDown  –counterclockwise/clockwise view rotate:

Ctrl+Shift+ "-" / "+"   – view scale decreasing/increasing:

Ctrl+Shift+ "{" – Shortening changing. Decrease.

Ctrl+Shift+ "}" – Shortening changing. Increase.

Ctrl+F1…F4 – Format changing. A1…A4. Portrait.

Shift+F1…F4 – Format changing. A1…A4. Landscape.