The "Phase Manager" tool allows separating objects, such as columns, beams, plates, welding seams, etc. to various phases. Using phases is not compulsory. Phases facilitate segregating objects by:
Also, phases are useful to hide/ open definite object types.
Managing phases is done via “Phase Manager”, allowing selecting,
You can access the “Phase Manager” via the main menu tab or
Enable the Ctrl+H hotkey combination.
Select the phase available. It is automatically created by the TS and
Press on the “Objects by phases” button to see the objects
Let’s create a new phase by pressing the “Add” button. Select the phase created and pitch upon the objects you would like to transfer to another phase, afterward press the “Modify phase” button. Thus the selected objects have been transferred to another Phase. Let’s allocate the left part of the building to a separate phase. Go to the Ctrl+5 display mode.
Create a new phase and allocate the right building side into it.
Make a left-click on the view, thus disabling all the selections. Enable the first phase and press the “Objects by phases” button to see the objects contained in it.
Examine Phases 2 and 3 as well.
Since all the phases have been established correctly, you can freely use them. Rename the phases as follows: “Central Phase”, “Left Phase”, “Right Phase”, by selecting the current phase name and typing in the new one.
If you create new objects, then they will get allocated to the phase which
Add a new phase “New objects” and set it current, by enabling it in the “Phase Manager” window and pressing the “Set current” button. The phase line will be automatically marked by the “@” symbol.
Double-click at the phase name sets it up as current. Consecutively exercise
Enable the 3rd phase and press the “Lock objects” button. Thus editing the phase objects is not possible anymore. It is a useful tool, preventing unwanted changes in structural objects.
Try on your own deleting any beam included into the enabled phase. Tekla
Close the “Warning” pop-up window and unlock the objects of
Now try out deleting several objects of the phase.
As you have already found out, it is possible to select objects by phase,
Select any beam in the model and at the “Phase Manager” window,
Tekla Structures automatically highlights the phase/ phases to which the
Create 10 more new phases and leave them blank. As several models might contain a large number of phases it comes out quite difficult to navigate among them. To facilitate the issue, there is a search box, where you can type in the stage title or its number.
Exercise filtering a required phase by using the search box: for example,
Symbol “ * “ indicates that there can come up other symbols in the phase title. If you do not specify the “*” symbol then TS will be sourcing the exact match with the value typed in the search box.
To access the full phase list, restore the search box up to the “*” symbol and press the “Enter” button. Also, exercise searching a phase by its number. Refer to the below:
If necessary, it is possible to delete unuseful phases. Select phase number five, and by holding on the “Shift” key pressed consecutively select phase number 11.
Thus the interval of phases from 5 to 11 will be selected.
Press the “Delete” button.
It is not possible to delete a stage containing at least an object. In this case, TS notifies about an error that occurred, which means it is not possible to accidentally delete such a phase.
The “Phase manager” comes as a very useful tool when copying
Save the model with the phases created. As well as save the grids separately.
In this way, in the folder TS models\attributes, two new files had been created under the names of the new grid, and under separate extensions. Copy these files to the respective attributes folder of the new model.
