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Tekla Structures

Version	Price & Buy
2025 SP5	$75
2024 SP6	$65
2023 SP7	$60
2022 SP5	$50
2020 SP5	$45
2017 SP6	$45
2016i SR6	$45
2016 SR4	$45
21.1 SR6	$45
20.0 SR3 (2014)	$45

What Is Tekla Structures 2025?

Tekla Structures 2025 creates highly detailed 3D models that drive fabrication, erection, and construction management processes. The software handles multi-material projects including structural steel, reinforced concrete, precast elements, and miscellaneous metals. Teams use it to generate accurate fabrication drawings, material lists, and coordination models that reduce errors and eliminate costly field modifications.

The 2025 release focuses on eliminating repetitive manual work through intelligent automation. AI learns from your organization's past projects to suggest optimal drawing configurations, while real-time collaboration replaces outdated file-sharing workflows with instant model-based reviews.

Who Benefits from Tekla Structures 2025?

Steel detailers use Tekla 2025 to produce fabrication-ready shop drawings with minimal manual adjustments. Fabricators benefit from direct material synchronization and submittal feedback that reduces production waste. Structural engineers coordinate complex multi-discipline projects with confidence that all stakeholders work from current information. General contractors rely on accurate material quantities and construction sequencing that keeps projects on schedule and within budget.

Key Applications and Project Types

Tekla Structures 2025 excels in industrial facilities, commercial buildings, infrastructure projects, and complex steel structures. Teams use it for high-rise construction, stadiums, bridges, warehouses, manufacturing plants, and mixed-use developments. The software handles projects ranging from simple steel connections to intricate space frames with thousands of unique members.

How Does AI Automation Accelerate Your Projects?

The AI system classifies drawings into intelligent libraries and identifies the best matching template for each new assembly. Unlike traditional cloning that relies on locally stored templates, the 2025 AI feature accesses your entire project history stored securely in the cloud. This means better drawing matches, fewer manual edits, and consistent results across your team.

When you create a fabrication drawing in Tekla 2025, the AI analyzes the assembly geometry, connection types, and member configurations to find the most relevant previous drawing. You can generate drawings either by cloning from the best match or by applying the saved settings from similar assemblies. The more drawings your organization uploads to the collection, the smarter the system becomes at predicting optimal configurations.

AI-Powered Fabrication Drawing Generation

The AI Cloud Fabrication drawing feature in Tekla 2025 works for assembly and cast unit drawings, automatically handling complex connection details and member arrangements. The system maintains drawing stability during model updates, so design changes don't require complete drawing recreation. Detailers report significant time savings on repetitive assembly types like moment connections, braced frames, and truss chords.

Intelligent Assistant for Instant Answers

New in Tekla 2025, the Trimble Assistant provides immediate answers to technical questions without searching through documentation. Ask about specific commands, modeling techniques, or workflow best practices and receive contextual guidance based on your current task. This eliminates the time spent hunting through help files when you encounter unfamiliar situations.

What Collaboration Features Eliminate Project Delays?

Live Collaboration in Tekla 2025 brings stakeholders together for model-based reviews instead of waiting for drawing cycles. Structural engineers, detailers, and reviewers join the same session to discuss clash resolutions, connection details, and design changes while viewing the live 3D model. Each collaborator edits their own model, but everyone sees modifications as overlay objects in real-time.

This approach catches coordination issues immediately rather than discovering problems weeks later during RFI responses. Teams working across multiple offices or with external consultants maintain project momentum by resolving questions during scheduled review sessions instead of endless email chains.

Live Multi-User Model Collaboration

Tekla 2025's Live Collaboration supports Tekla Structures, Trimble Connect, and Autodesk Revit users in the same session. Collaborators navigate the model independently while seeing where others are looking and what they're modifying. The feature works with Tekla Model Sharing, allowing teams to review proposed changes before committing them to the shared model. All participants must be connected to the same Trimble Connect project, which takes minutes to configure.

Seamless Fabricator Integration

The Tekla PowerFab Connector in Tekla Structures 2025 creates direct communication between detailers and fabricators. Fabricators share their current material catalogs, profile availability, and production statuses through cloud storage. Detailers validate their models against these settings before submitting, ensuring they specify materials the fabricator actually stocks. This eliminates surprise material substitutions and reduces procurement delays.

How Does Tekla 2025 Streamline Your Workflows?

SmartCreate in Tekla 2025 analyzes your previous drawing creation patterns to suggest relevant templates and settings. When you create a new drawing, the system remembers which templates worked well for similar assemblies and prioritizes those suggestions. This reduces the trial-and-error process of finding the right drawing configuration.

Drawing cloning produces more consistent results in Tekla 2025, maintaining layout stability when the model undergoes design changes. Views stay positioned correctly, dimensions adapt to new geometry, and annotations remain properly placed. This means fewer manual adjustments after each design revision.

Automated Drawing Creation and Updates

Tekla 2025 improves the handling of drawing updates when model changes occur. The software intelligently determines which drawings require regeneration and which can be updated incrementally. For large projects with hundreds of fabrication drawings, this selective update approach saves hours during each design iteration. The system also provides better feedback about why specific drawings need attention, helping you prioritize review efforts.

Enhanced Numbering and Change Control

The numbering preview functionality introduced in Tekla Structures 2025 shows exactly how model modifications will affect your numbering scheme before you commit changes. This prevents accidental renumbering of assemblies already in fabrication. The Reinforcement Sequence Numbering feature ensures rebar marks follow manufacturing requirements, supporting both on-site placement and prefabrication shop workflows. Detailers can verify numbering logic matches fabricator expectations before releasing drawings.

How Does Tekla 2025 Connect Field and Office Teams?

Point cloud integration in Tekla 2025 streams data from the cloud instead of loading massive files onto individual workstations. Survey teams capture site conditions using laser scanners or photogrammetry, and detailers immediately access this information for as-built checks or design adjustments. The software overlays the structural model on point cloud data to identify installation discrepancies or field conflicts before fabrication begins.

This real-time connection between field reality and office design eliminates the lag time between survey and coordination. When site conditions don't match design intent, teams identify issues within hours instead of weeks.

Streamlined Reality Capture Integration

Tekla 2025's cloud-based point cloud streaming means junior detailers with standard workstations can perform tasks that previously required high-end hardware. The software renders only the visible portions of the point cloud, maintaining responsive performance even with scan data from large industrial facilities. Multiple team members can reference the same reality capture data simultaneously without duplicating files across workstations.

Enhanced Layout Management

The Layout Manager in Tekla Structures 2025 generates precise layout information for field crews placing embedments, anchor bolts, and base plates. Office teams create detailed layout drawings with coordinates, offsets, and elevation data that field crews use for accurate installation. After placement, crews document as-built positions, and the system compares actual versus designed locations to verify tolerance compliance. This closed-loop process reduces installation errors and associated rework costs.

What Advanced Detailing Capabilities Does Tekla 2025 Offer?

Rebar Sets in Tekla 2025 automatically adjust reinforcement patterns when slab slopes change or opening sizes are modified. Detailers define the rebar logic once, and the system maintains proper bar spacing, cover distances, and lap lengths throughout design iterations. This automation proves valuable on parking structures with complex drainage slopes or industrial facilities with numerous floor penetrations.

The 2025 version improves bar numbering for manufacturing compliance, ensuring mark sequences match fabricator shop practices. Bars are grouped logically for efficient bending and cage assembly, reducing shop confusion and installation errors.

Expanded Rebar Set Functionality

• Polybeam reinforcement handles non-rectangular beam sections with varying depth and width transitions commonly found in architectural concrete
• Sloping slab reinforcement automatically adjusts bar lengths and positions for drainage slopes, ramps, and stadium seating
• Opening reinforcement creates proper bar detailing around penetrations with automatic trimming, additional bars, and corner reinforcement
• Complex geometry support enables detailing of curved walls, spiral stairs, and hyperbolic paraboloid shells with consistent bar placement logic

Manufacturing and Compliance Support

Tekla Structures 2025 generates detailed bar lists with bending schedules, shipping weights, and installation sequences. The Reinforcement Sequence Numbering ensures marks follow installation order, helping ironworkers place bars efficiently without constant reference to drawings. The system exports data in formats that automated bending machines and cage welding equipment require, supporting modern prefabrication workflows. Compliance with regional standards like ACI 315, BS 8666, and DIN standards is built into the bar detailing logic.

How Does Tekla 2025 Integrate with Your Existing Tools?

TrimBIM format in Tekla 2025 replaces the limitations of traditional IFC workflows by maintaining Tekla-specific fabrication data during model exchanges. Structural engineers send analysis models to detailers, who add connection details and return enriched models without losing original design intent. This bidirectional flow maintains data integrity across multiple software platforms.

The integration between Tekla Structural Designer and Tekla Structures 2025 transfers design forces, connection requirements, and member properties directly into the detailing environment. Detailers see exactly which loads govern each connection and can validate that fabrication details meet engineering requirements. When design changes occur, updated loads synchronize automatically, triggering review of affected connections.

Design-to-Detail Workflow Integration

Tekla 2025 imports analytical models from Tekla Structural Designer with complete UDA (User Defined Attribute) mapping, preserving custom properties and project-specific information. Connection force envelopes transfer to the detailing model, enabling automatic connection design verification. This tight integration reduces transcription errors and ensures fabrication details align with engineering calculations. Multiple design iterations synchronize efficiently, allowing parallel work between engineers and detailers.

Fabrication Export Capabilities

Tekla Structures 2025 exports STEP and IGES files for CNC machinery used in miscellaneous steel and handrail fabrication. These neutral formats drive tube bending equipment, plasma cutters, and robotic welding cells directly from the 3D model. Shops manufacturing ornamental metalwork, stair stringers, or specialty structural components receive geometry files that eliminate manual programming. The software also exports native formats for automated drilling lines, plate processors, and profile cutting equipment used in structural steel fabrication.

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