You can customize the property pane to show, hide and re-organize settings. You can hide settings that are never used and add important UDAs.

One user can create customized property pane layouts and share them with the whole organization.

To open the customization tool, click File > Settings > Customize > Property pane.

The customizations are saved into the PropertyTemplates.xml file in \Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Trimble\TeklaStructures\<version>\UI\PropertyTemplates. Copy it under the environment, company, or project folder, for example \ProgramData\Tekla Structures\<version>\Environments\<environment>\system\PropertyRepository\Templates\PropertyTemplates.xml.

The loading order in Tekla Structures is:

1. Tekla Structures default property pane (embedded resources)
2. Property pane configuration in environment folders (based on XS_SYSTEM path)
3. Property pane configuration in the company folder (defined in XS_FIRM )
4. Property pane configuration in the project folder (defined in XS_PROJECT )
5. User-customized property pane under %localappdata%

The property pane definitions loaded later will override previously loaded definitions. For example, a property pane defined in the firm folder will take precedence over a property pane defined in the environment folders.