Environment database file

Tekla Structures
2022
Tekla Structures

Environment database file

To ensure consistent model behavior when a model is used with different roles, the environment database file (environment.db) contains the definitions of the user-defined attributes (UDAs) used in the model.

When you create a new model, Tekla Structures merges the definitions from your objects.inp files to the environment.db file. Later, when you add new user-defined attributes to the objects.inp file, the definitions are saved in environment.db when you open the model.

You can modify your user-defined attributes in an objects.inp file but the changed definitions are not automatically applied. If there are conflicts between definitions in an objects.inp file and definitions the environment.db file, the definitions in environment.db are used. To see the conflicts, run the Diagnose and change attribute definitions command, then select the attribute definitions that you want to update in the objects.inp file.

Note: Do not directly edit the environment.db file.
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