Create SidePlate connections

Tekla Structural Designer
Modified: 6 Jun 2023
2025
Tekla Structural Designer

Create SidePlate connections

To add SidePlate connections:
  1. Select the steel beam(s) to which you want to apply SidePlate connections.
  2. In the Properties window, expand the End 1, or End 2 SidePlate heading and select Apply SidePlate connection at one, or both ends as required.
  3. In the Properties window, select the SidePlate Connection type that is appropriate to the SFRS type that has been specified, or, if not in a seismic frame, set the type as SidePlate MF (moment frame).

    Each connection is initially shown in the graphics as a simple box. After sizing has been performed it will be shown as a pair of plates.

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