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      • Create and manage construction levels
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        • Create columns
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          • Specify the beam type and section size
          • Create single-span beams
          • Create continuous beams and cranked beams
          • Create curved beams
          • Modify the position of beams
          • Setting out steel and cold formed beams
          • Create plated or compound section steel beams
          • Create Westok cellular, Westok plated or FABSEC® beams
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          • Create web openings in steel members
          • Add haunches to steel beams
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Create beams

Tekla Structural Designer
2021
Tekla Structural Designer

Create beams

This section focuses on the operations required to create beams (in any material).

  • Specify the beam type and section size
  • Create single-span beams
  • Create continuous beams and cranked beams
  • Create curved beams
  • Modify the position of beams

The following topics are relevant to steel beams only:

  • Setting out steel and cold formed beams
  • Create plated or compound section steel beams
  • Create Westok cellular, Westok plated or FABSEC® beams
  • DELTABEAM®
  • Create web openings in steel members
  • Add haunches to steel beams
See also
Beam properties
Member global offsets
Video: Creating and editing beams (US customary units)
Video: Creating and editing beams (metric units)
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