Tekla 2025 is out now!
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Smarter workflows, better automation, and enhanced collaboration!
The latest version of Tekla software is here, bringing a range of improvements to help you work more efficiently and collaborate seamlessly across teams! Tekla 2025 introduces smarter automation, enhanced fabrication workflows, and improved interoperability between Tekla Structures, Tekla PowerFab, and other connected tools.
With a focus on reliability and productivity, this release supports your preferred ways of working—whether in detailing, fabrication, engineering, or project coordination. From AI-assisted drawing creation to improved numbering control, advanced model-based collaboration, and stronger integration with Trimble solutions, Tekla 2025 helps ensure accuracy, efficiency, and confidence at every stage of a project.
You can read all about what’s new on Tekla’ website, pressrelease, release notes, or continue reading this article to explore the key enhancements in Tekla Structures 2025 and how they can benefit your daily workflows.
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New AI-enabled Cloud Fabrication Drawing service (preview)
Tekla Structures 2025 introduces a preview version of a next-generation way of creating your fabrication drawings.
Cloning from thousands of drawings from your company's best projects stored in the cloud for easy access saves you time and effort creating drawings. AI helps you create your cloud collections and picks the best-matching template to clone a new drawing from.
Without being disruptive to customers’ usual workflows, this preview feature provides an optional, alternative approach that can reduce the need for manual adjustments.
(Released as a Preview feature)
Better fabrication drawings out of the box
The cloning functionality has been improved to produce better automatic results for you and keep your fabrication drawings more stable during project updates.
When creating the fabrication drawings using SmartCreate, you will get better suggestions based on your previous drawings or attribute files. Now single part drawings are also supported.
Enhanced numbering
To keep you up to date on your project changes, we provide you with better control and transparency over numbering and its changes.
Benefit from the new Numbering Preview to ensure the desired results! To simplify communication for assembly on the factory floor and on site, the new rebar numbering allows you to control numbers to start from 1 within each cast unit or pour.
Integrated Tekla PowerFab Connector for steel fabricators and detailers
Using the Tekla PowerFab Connector functionality available in Tekla Structures, the detailer can efficiently submit packages for various purposes such as estimating, purchasing, and fabrication directly from Tekla Structures with a convenient single-click integration to Tekla PowerFab!
This integration ensures that material profiles, project statuses, and submittals are fully synchronized in real-time, allowing detailers to receive up-to-date information as well as direct feedback on their submittals from fabricators.
As a result, this significantly reduces the need for Requests for Information (RFIs) and minimizes the necessity for manual updates, contributing to an overall improvement in project profitability for the detailing company. For fabricators, this streamlined process means less production waste and fewer expensive ad-hoc material purchases, leading to enhanced efficiency and cost-effectiveness across the board.
New STEP and IGES export for miscellaneous steel fabrication
Supporting fabrication interoperability, exports for STEP and 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.
Improved Workflows with TrimBIM
IMAGE: More efficient collaborative model-based workflows with stakeholders
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Tekla Structures 2025 now has improved workflows, not only when using the IFC format, but also the more performant TrimBIM format.
An improved data exchange with the Trimble Connect common data environment and collaboration platform allows users to only share what is needed for the task and enrich this shared information with model data. This benefits all stakeholders by enabling efficient data flow and collaboration throughout the project lifecycle.
Live Collaboration!
More efficient collaborative model-based workflows with stakeholders!
The Live Collaboration service (new as a preview in Tekla Structures 2025) enables working in the same model using either Trimble Connect or Tekla Structures. This allows project stakeholders to adopt a model-based review of progress — a leap forward from drawing-based workflows.
Enhanced communication between field and office
Tekla Structures 2025 supports streaming of point cloud data using Trimble Reality Capture platform service, freeing up disk space and keeping Tekla Model Sharing project participants up to date.
Other improvements include better performance for point clouds in the model and the new clip box that allows quick isolation of specific portions of the surveyed data for precise modeling.
The renewed Layout Manager further enhances communication between field and office to communicate designs or to compare your design to as-built conditions. Transfer data to and from Trimble Connect effortlessly so that Trimble FieldLink automatically uses up-to-date files.
Improved security for Tekla Model Sharing
The 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, and increased administrative efficiency by allowing administrators to manage multiple organizations within the Model Sharing Management Console.
IMAGE: Tekla Model Sharing enhanced security in version 2025
Improvements in rebar sets for concrete detailing
Rebar sets now support a greater range of use cases like ramps and sloping slabs, allowing you to continue to detail rebar with a higher precision even in busy, detailed models.
Making your daily work smoother
Trimble has improved the drawing view dialog to be noticeably faster, and improved the usability and performance of property panes.
Trimble has added higher precision for imperial profiles to support sheet metal, weld prefixes in steel components, support for merging marks with fewer clicks, and drawing part lines to satisfy countries' standards (such as colors and lines).
This aims to satisfy your needs for standardization for local requirements.
Tekla User Assistant (Preview)
IMAGE: Try the knowledgeable multilingual AI assistant in Tekla Structures 2025!
Try the knowledgeable multilingual AI assistant that provides accurate and concise answers to your questions about Tekla Structures, Tekla Structural Designer, Tekla Tedds and Tekla PowerFab.
Tekla Assistant is available as an extension for Tekla Structures or as a standalone web app that you can access from Tekla User Assistance.
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