Share a model in Tekla Model Sharing

When you start sharing a model in Tekla Model Sharing, you become the Owner of the model.

You need to belong to an organization as an employee to start sharing a model. If you have an external licenses, you cannot have the model ownership, so you cannot start sharing a model. For more information about employees and external license users, see Manage user accounts for Tekla products and Manage Tekla Structures subscriptions.

Open a single-user model that you want to share.
On the File menu, click Sharing > Start sharing.

The Start sharing dialog box opens.
Select the service from the Service list.

When you use Tekla Model Sharing for the first time and the on-premises sharing service is enabled, you need to select the service from the Service list. You can set up and use an on-premises service connection, or you can use the Tekla service. Tekla Model Sharing on-premises server requires a separate license and installation.
If needed, enter a Code and a Description for the model.
- Code can be a site number, a project number, or an accounting number, for example.
- Type a description according to your company conventions.
In Model data storage location, select the location for the model data storage.

There are four model data storage locations available: North America (Virginia/East US), Australia (New South Wales/Australia East), Asia (Singapore/Southeast Asia), and Europe (Ireland/North Europe). The locations are the same locations as in Trimble Connect.

Select the region closest to the majority of the users in the model to improve the performance.

If you use the on-premises sharing service, you cannot select the data storage location.

Note that you can set the data storage location only if the Tekla Model Sharing administrator of your organization has allowed that in Management Console for Tekla Model Sharing. Administrators can set a default data storage location to be used in the organization. For more information, see Manage organization settings in the Management Console.
Invite other users to share your model by typing their email addresses to the Invite users box, and set their user role to either Editor, Owner, Project viewer, or Viewer.

You can add several users at one go. Separate the email addresses with semicolons. Do not use spaces between the email addresses. If you add several users at one go, they all get the same user role. The role can be changed later.

Note that if you are using Tekla Structures Partner license, and you want to join to a Tekla Model Sharing production model, ask to be added as a Viewer. You can then read in changes but you cannot write out changes. This ensures that the production model is not converted to a partner model.
Click the Add button to add the users to the model.
Select the Send email notification to user. check box to send a notification email to the invited users, and write a message to the users.
Click the Start button to start sharing your model.

The model is saved and written out to the sharing service.

When you open the model the next time, you have two options:

In the Tekla Structures start screen when you open Tekla Structures:
1. Go to the Shared models tab.
2. Click Continue to open the Shared models dialog box.
3. Select the Show shared models on this computer check box to list the models.
4. Click Join.
You can also open shared models on the Recent or All models tabs.
In Tekla Structures, go to File > Open > Browse shared models.