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Create reports

Tekla Structural Designer
Modified: 2 May 2025
2025
Tekla Structural Designer

Create reports

Tekla Structural Designer offers two report types: Model reports (for the entire or a filtered part of the model) and Member reports (for individual elements). Model reports have standard styles accessible via the Reports ribbon, where you can select, modify, or create new styles. Member reports also have standard styles configurable via the ribbon, with an active style per member type.

Configure a model report

  1. On the Report ribbon, click Model Report...

    The Report Contents dialog box opens.

  2. Select the report:
    • To select an existing report, click the report name in the Available Styles list.
    • To add a report, click Add and type the report name in the Active Style field.
  3. Review the report structure and modify it according to your needs.
    • To include chapters and options in the report, drag them from the left column to the right column.
    • To remove unwanted chapters and options permanently from the report, drag them from the right column to the left column.
    • To exclude a specific chapter from the report but maintain the current report structure, right-click the chapter and clear the Active option.
    • To re-arrange the report order, drag and drop chapters within the right column.
  4. To limit the output to selected levels, frames, planes, or sub structures, apply a model filter.
  5. To limit the output of chapters dependant on loading, apply a loading filter.
  6. If you have created specific view configurations for the model and want to include them in the report, include a separate View chapter for each view configuration.
  7. If the report structure includes any member chapters (such as beams, columns, or walls), select an appropriate member report style as follows:
    1. In the Report Structure, select the required chapter.
    2. Right-click, and from the context menu go to Style
    3. Click the desired member report style.
      You can either choose a named style as shown above, or you can choose "Active Style" (in which case when you display the report it will adopt whichever member report style is active at that time).
  8. Click OK.
Tip: To reuse customized report styles in a new model, save the existing model as a template.

Display a model report

  1. In the list on the far left of the Report ribbon, select the report to view.
  2. On the Report ribbon, click Show Report.

    Tekla Structural Designer displays the report in a new window. If the report contains loading analysis views of individual members (such as force diagrams or pictures), the views are displayed for each member type according to the selected member report style.

Configure a member report

  1. On the Report ribbon, click Member Report...

    The Report Contents dialog box opens.

  2. In the Member Type list, select the desired member.
  3. Select the report:
    • To select an existing report, click the report name in the Available Styles list.
    • To add a report, click Add and type the report name in the Active Style field.
  4. Review the report structure and modify it according to your needs.
    • To include chapters and options in the report, drag them from the left column to the right column.
    • To remove unwanted chapters and options permanently from the report, drag them from the right column to the left column.
    • To exclude a specific chapter from the report but maintain the current report structure, right-click the chapter and clear the Active option.
    • To re-arrange the report order, drag and drop chapters within the right column.
  5. You can limit the output for diagram and end reaction chapters etc. by applying a loading filter.
  6. If you have included a drawing in the report structure, specify appropriate settings for the drawing as follows:
    1. Right-click the drawing in the report structure.
    2. Click Settings...
    3. Define the drawing settings according to your needs.
    4. Click OK.
  7. Click OK
    Note:

    If several styles are listed in the Available Styles list, the one with (active) after its name will be the one that gets used when you display a Member Report. To change this, select a different style in the Available Styles list and then click >> Active.

Display a member report

Before you display a member report you should ensure the correct member report style has been set as active. This can be done as follows:
  1. On the Report ribbon, click Member Report...
  2. In the Member Type list, select the desired member type.
  3. In the Available Styles list, select the style that you want to use.
  4. Click >> Active.
  5. Click OK

You can then proceed to display the report as follows:

  1. Hover the mouse pointer over the desired member.
  2. Once the outline of the member is high-lighted, right-click the member.
  3. In the context menu, select Report for Member.

    Tekla Structural Designer opens a report for the selected member in a new window.

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