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Tekla Structures 2025

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Tekla Structures 2025

Summary of version highlights, improvements & feature updates

Improved cloning functionality produces better automatic results, helps keep your fabrication drawings more stable during project updates.

Creating fabrication drawings using SmartCreate gives better suggestions based on previous drawings or attribute files. Now single part drawings are also supported.

Shaped by your guidance generously provided to us, we have improved the drawing view dialog to be noticeably faster & improved the usability and performance of property panes.

We added higher precision for imperial profiles to support sheet metal, weld prefixes in steel components, support for merging marks with fewer clicks & drawing part lines to satisfy countries’ standards (such as colours and lines).

All this aims to help satisfy your needs for standardization for local requirements.

New Numbering Preview ensures better control & transparency over numbering & numbering changes. Ensure you get the desired results.

New rebar numbering simplifies communication for assembly on the factory floor & site allowing control numbers to start from 1 within each cast unit or pour.

Introduced as a preview in Tekla Structures 2025 this gives users the ability to utilize artificial intelligence in the creation of fabrication drawings.

This provides an optional, alternative approach that can reduce the need for manual adjustments to drawings – without disrupting normal drawing workflows.

Significant usability & performance improvements in property panes & drawing properties dialogs enhance the overall experience.

Enhanced functionality for rebar detailing like Reinforcement Sequence Numbering in a pour or a cast unit. These improvements support manufacturing processes as well as the work on-site.

Supporting fabrication interoperability, exports for STEP & IGES file formats have been added for tubular handrail production. These exports, available in Tekla Structures directly, use precise curved geometry to automate manufacturing when the DSTV-NC or IFC formats are not supported.

New features in Tekla Model Sharing include enhanced security with malware scanning for uploaded files, improved access control through a new Model Sharing Admin Role in Tekla Online Admin Tool & increased administrative efficiency by allowing administrators to manage multiple organizations within the Model Sharing Management Console.

A new AI-powered Trimble Assistant within the product, as an extension & as a web app in Tekla User Assistance.

Provides accurate & concise answers to users’ questions on Tekla. A centralized product support system using the extensive Tekla User Assistance knowledge base.

Introduced as a preview in Tekla Structures 2025. Live Collaboration enables working in the same model using either Trimble Connect® or Tekla Structures.

Project stakeholders can now adopt a model-based review of progress – a leap forward from traditional drawing-based workflows.

Tekla Structures 2025 has improved workflows, when using the IFC format & also the more performant TrimBIM format.

An improved data exchange with the Trimble Connect common data environment & collaboration platform. Users only share what is needed for the task & enrich this shared information with model data. All stakeholders benefit as efficient data flow & collaboration is enabled throughout the project lifecycle.

Enhanced connected workflow between Tekla Structures & Tekla Structural Designer.

BIM modelers can efficiently share models for the analysis of steel structures with structural engineers before detailing. This new approach enables the use of the BIM model by engineers, saving time & reducing errors caused by building a separate model.

Other key improvements include improved user defined attribute mapping. The critical data for fire design can be transferred between Tekla Structural Designer & Tekla Structures as UDAs, and connection forces can now be imported into Tekla Structures by design case & visualized for better-optimized connection design.

Improved integrations to help stakeholders in the office & on-site work together more efficiently.

Integration with the Trimble Reality Capture platform service enables users to collaborate in point clouds & 3D models without consuming local hardware resources.

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Cadex SA's environment for 2025

Environment updates & Highlights

The fastest way to create good, consistent fabrication drawings. AutoDrawing wizards have been extendedto included unfolded plates, HD bolts and more.

Cadex SA’s drawing wizards ensure you create drawings quickly, consistently & accurately to predefined industry standard settings.

Drawing wizards are updated and extended – for example to create unfolded plate drawings that will only require touching up occasionally.

Choose the wizard that uses the latest drawing layouts or legacy layouts you’re accustomed to using. Your own settings & preferences in firm, project or model folders are automatically taken into account by the wizards.

Cadex SA provides intelligent Excel spreadsheet reports that are created using the normal Report functionality in Tekla Structures. Unlike normal reports these spreadsheets have considerable enhanced functionality & capabilities, including intelligent formulae. These reports once created are easily customizable to meet user preferences or to allow for late changes. Our spreadsheets are carefully formatted for print, including seamless conversion to PDF. Users have the flexibility to modify styles directly within the spreadsheet, ensuring a personalized look and feel it necessary. Users can effortlessly adjust the level of detail displayed on the report by hiding or unhiding columns, with changes reflected instantly ensuring you print the level of detail required. Cadex SA leverages advanced formulae and features in the intelligent spreadsheets – that ensures users can make adjustments as needed on the fly. Deleting unnecessary rows and recalculations are performed accurately & automatically, maintaining the integrity of the report. Adding new rows is a straightforward process as with any well-written spreadsheet – the intelligent formulae ensure the calculations and summaries update. Incorporating late-breaking changes is straight forward. Users can directly modify relevant cells within the spreadsheet. For instance, adjusting the quantity of bolts required just by altering factor or the bolt count in the corresponding cell, with dependent quantities and summaries updating automatically. The spreadsheets behave as would be expected from a well-written fully featured spreadsheet.

Choose the approach to calculating steel mass on the fly to suit the fabricator or client. Switch effortlessly between gross mass & mass as an when required – drawing & reports update correctly & automatically to changes.

Apply of change the finish for all parts & bolts finish for the model. Switch finish effortlessly. Override part or assembly finish for selected parts. Drawing & reports update correctly & automatically.

Choose to use drawing revision numbers & drawing revision marks effortlessly with confidence. Switch at the click of a mouse knowing that drawings & drawing reports update correctly & automatically.

Need to include an allowance for bolts lost or broken – one that you can adjust on the fly. Its sorted. Change the allowance effortlessly with confidence the reports you create will take the revised allowance into account.

Intelligent defaults for these settings ensure you only need to change them if necessary.

We’ve updated & improved individual drawing layouts to provide better more predictable output.

Drawing settings allow hatch or fill on drawings to be changed easily on the fly from model settings for all drawings to suit changes in requirements.

Dimensioning settings have been updated & are more consistent.

Drawing revision marks and numbering. Drawing revision numbers increment automatically, Now Cadex SA’s app updates or increment revision marks automatically for selected drawings. Alphabetic or numeric revision marks can increment automatically. You can use any combination of marks – alphabetic or numeric – even supporting legacy drawing marking for example starting with A for the first mark & automatically incementing to B, C, D for preliminary drawings… & then switch to revision mark 0 for drawings when issued for construction & then have these update automatically to revision marks 1, 2, 3… Supports any mix of revision marks on selected drawings.

Camber & bolt slip. A useful app we’ve developed that allows for camber and/or bolt slip for trusses. Different camber shapes are supported for any truss shape.

Centroids & back marks. A useful tool we provide for checking. Show centroids & back marks – industry standard or your own custom back marks – for channels, angles, tees, I-shaped profiles. Just select the model objects & run the app.

Change numbering prefixes or start numbers. We’ve provided an updated app that does just that.

Ring marking. Plant layout or GA drawings can use improved legacy ring marking to identify items with tabulated reports and ring marks.

Concerned about changing numbering (part marks, assembly marks) or tracking changes. You can run an updated app to help with that – & even use one of reports to show parts or assemblies that have changed (and what the changes were).

Apps provided by others are more accessible – for example for identifying & flipping upside down contour plates.

Updates & improvement to component setting take into account changes in component functionality as well as help ensure users & industry requirements are easily met using settings provided.

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