Manage grades

Tekla PowerFab
Modified: 11 Mar 2025
2025
Tekla PowerFab

Manage grades

You can add material grades for a selected shape, modify the properties of existing grades, or delete unnecessary grades in the Shape/Grade/Size Maintenance dialog.

Add grades

Note: When you add new materials to the material database, the materials still need to be added to the pricing database separately. The pricing database is where Tekla PowerFab looks for the material dimensions and lengths for combining materials.

See Pricing maintenance. See also Adjust labor standards.

  1. Go to Maintenance > Shapes/Grades/Sizes.

    The Shape/Grade/Size Maintenance dialog opens.

  2. Open the Grades tab.
  3. In the shape list, select a shape.
  4. At the bottom of the dialog, click Add Grade.

    The Grade Details dialog opens.

  5. Type the new grade in the Grade field.
  6. If necessary, modify the weight multiplier.
  7. If you use ProNest for nesting, type the ProNest shape to which you want to associate the grade in the ProNest Shape Designation field.
  8. To save the grade, click Save.

    The material grade is added to the Grade list of the selected shape.

Modify grades

  1. Go to Maintenance > Shapes/Grades/Sizes.

    The Shape/Grade/Size Maintenance dialog opens.

  2. Open the Grades tab.
  3. In the shape list, select a shape.
  4. In the Grade list, select the grade that you want to modify.
  5. At the bottom of the dialog, click Edit Grade.

    The Grade Details dialog opens.

  6. Do one or more of the following to modify the grade:
    • In the Grade field, type a new name for the grade.
    • Modify the weight multiplier value.
    • To change the ProNest shape to which you want to associate the grade, type a new name in the ProNest Shape Designation field.
  7. Click Save.

The grade properties are updated.

Delete grades

  1. Go to Maintenance > Shapes/Grades/Sizes.

    The Shape/Grade/Size Maintenance dialog opens.

  2. Open the Grades tab.
  3. In the shape list, select a shape.
  4. In the Grade list, select the grade that you want to delete.
  5. At the bottom of the dialog, click Delete Grade.
  6. To permanently delete the grade, click Yes in the confirmation dialog.

    If a single grade that you are trying to delete is used somewhere else in Tekla PowerFab, a dialog opens, showing jobsi which the grade is used.

    If multiple grades that you are trying to delete are used somewhere else in Tekla PowerFab, notification messages appear, telling you that the grades are used somewhere else in Tekla PowerFab. Then, deleting the selected grades is canceled.

  7. Do one of the following:
    • View where the grades is used, and click OK to close the dialog without deleting the grade. You can then change the grade used in the listed jobs, and delete the grade later.
    • If you are sure that you want to delete the grade now, click Force Delete, select the new grade that will be used elsewhere in Tekla PowerFab instead of the grade that you are deleting, and click Perform Force Delete.
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