2024 SP8: Important improvements and fixes

Tekla Structures
Modified: 22 Apr 2025
2024
Tekla Structures

2024 SP8: Important improvements and fixes

The latest Tekla Structures service pack and updated environment installers are available in Trimble Downloads.

In addition to Tekla Structures 2024 SP8, 2024 SP8.1 is also available

Tekla Structures 2024 SP8.1 was released to fix an issue with customized Excel Visual Basic scripts for causing Tekla Structures to stop responding (TTSD-66862).

Service Pack 8.1 is an additional update available alongside Tekla Structures 2024 SP8. Users needing this fix should download SP8.1. Both service packs can be downloaded.

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Improvement in refreshing reference models

When refreshing reference models, and some of the original reference models are not found, you get a list of missing reference models. Earlier, you had to click OK to continue your work, but now the list is displayed only and you do not need to click OK to continue working. This improvement was made so that automated processes are able to continue without stopping in the middle of the process.

TTSD-69020

Improvement in uploading larger files in Support tool

Previously, the packaging functionality in the Support tool was not able to handle files larger than 2 GB. This issue has now been fixed, and it is possible to upload files up to 5 GB in size.

TTSD-69474

Improvement in magnetic planes in custom components

Previously, the related objects did not follow magnetic plane inside the custom component editor. This has now been fixed.

TTSD-68559

New advanced option for NC part list export

A new advanced option, XS_DSTV_LIST_WEIGHT, has been added for specifying whether gross or net weight is used in the part lists in the NC export. There are three options available:

WEIGHT - Checks if the part is a plate, and uses net weight for plates and gross weight for profiles in part list export.

WEIGHT_NET - Uses net weight in part list export.

WEIGHT_GROSS - Uses gross weight in part list export.

The value of the advanced option XS_DSTV_LIST_WEIGHT overrules the value of the existing advanced option XS_DSTV_LIST_NET_WEIGHT.

This new advanced option is hidden from the Advanced options dialog and can be set in an .ini file, for example, in the options.ini in the model folder.

TTSD-67596

Fixes

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Defect number Development area Description
TSAC-8895 Steel components

Corner bolted gusset (57): Previously, gusset stiffeners were created on incorrect edges of the gusset plate. This issue has now been fixed.

TSAC-8896 Steel components

Corner bolted gusset (57): Previously, the offset and length of the gusset stiffener were not correctly applied in the component. This issue has now been fixed.

TSAC-8938 Steel components

Bolted gusset (11): Previously, bolts were not staggered for the second member of the twin profile. This issue has now been fixed.

TSAC-9090 Steel components

Create hole around part (92): Previously, an exact-shaped hole around C profiles, U profiles, rectangular profiles, triangle profiles and octagonal profiles was not created at all. This issue has now been fixed.

TSAC-9102 Steel components

Corner bolted gusset (57): Previously, gusset stiffeners were created on incorrect edges of the gusset plate. This issue has now been fixed.

TSAC-9133 Steel components

Bent plate (190): Previously, the bent plate was created in an incorrect position. This issue has now been fixed.

TSAC-9163 Steel components

Base plate (1042): Previously, the position of custom components and the cast plate was incorrect. This issue has now been fixed.

TTSD-63845, TTSD-69248 Import, export, interoperability

IFC export: The custom properties now work in the same way as regular properties in the IFC export. If no value is found for a custom property in the export, the export does not write the property at all. To avoid this, add optional=true for that custom property in the property set.

TTSD-68618 Import, export, interoperability

IFC export: Sometimes parts were exported longer than they are. This issue has now been fixed.

TTSD-69156 Import, export, interoperability

IFC2x3 export: Previously, if the crossing bars of a bent mesh formed a closed shape, the overlapping ends of the bars clashed with each other in the exported file. The ends of the bars are now offset to avoid the clash.

TSAC-9162 Templates and reports
  • The template attributes CUSTOM.ELEMENT_WEIGHT and CUSTOM.ELEMENT_WEIGHT.REINFORCED now also include the weight of surface treatments.
  • Previously, CUSTOM.ELEMENT_WEIGHT.REINFORCED did not take reinforcement meshes into account. This issue has now been fixed.
  • There is a new custom attribute, CUSTOM.ELEMENT_WEIGHT.DETERMINING, that shows the value of CUSTOM.ELEMENT_WEIGHT or CUSTOM.ELEMENT_WEIGHT.REINFORCED, whichever has the higher value.
TTSD-67320 Drawings

Earlier, creating a new drawing was not possible immediately after performing Save as of the model with existing drawings. This issue has now been fixed.

TTSD-67914 Drawings

Part marks: Previously, if ASSEMBLY.ASSEMBLY_NAME was chosen for a sub-assembly main part in a part mark, the assembly name of the main assembly was given and not the assembly name of the sub-assembly. This issue has now been fixed.

TTSD-68768 Drawings

Marks: Sometimes the contents of the Available elements list in the drawing view level mark properties were duplicated. This issue has now been fixed.

TTSD-68996 Drawings

Pull-out pictures in rebar marks: The pull-out pictures for some rebar shapes, for example S-shaped bars, could show wrong orientation when the rebar marks are moved. This issue has now been fixed.

TTSD-69105 Drawings

Cloning drawings is now slightly faster.

TTSD-68780 Tekla Model Sharing

Tekla Model Sharing: Previously, reading in or writing out could fail in Windows 10 if a profile or a material name matched a Windows reserved name. This has now been fixed for newly created packages.

TTSD-68385 Reinforcement

Rebar meshes: Previously, if the crossing bars of a bent mesh formed a closed shape, the overlapping ends of the bars clashed with each other. The ends of the bars are now offset to avoid a clash.

TTSD-67617 Modeling

In Trimble Connector, on the Overlay models tab, only the latest version of each model was shown. This has now been fixed, and the list of versions is fetched when a model is selected. 

TTSD-67639 Modeling

Previously, model views sometimes reverted to the maximized state when the view representation was changed, even if they had been restored to a floating position after the last time the model was saved. Now, the model views retain their size.

TTSD-68519 Modeling

Previously, failures in loading extensions could prevent other functionality in Tekla Structures. Now the failures in extensions are more isolated.

TTSD-68654 Modeling

Previously, Trimble Connector failed to refresh overlay models when the current user was not an administrator. This has now been fixed.

TTSD-68853 Modeling

Previously, when you tried to split a contour plate or a slab having chamfers with negative dZ values, Tekla Structures stopped working unexpectedly. This has now been fixed.

TTSD-69158 Numbering

Previously, if there were numbering overlaps with reinforcing bars that could not be selected in the model, it might have been caused by bars that were still in the model database but could not be accessed from the model in any way.

Now, the Diagnose model command shows one of the two related messages for these cases:

  • Orphaned rebar found in the database
  • Unused rebar found in the numbering database

If you then use the Repair model command, the bars are removed from the database and they will no longer cause overlaps for the numbering of other bars in the model.

TTSD-69365 Import, export, interoperability (steel)

DSTV/NC: Earlier, when you exported bent plates with countersunk holes located on the part back plane, bending line information was exported incorrectly. This issue has now been fixed.

TSAC-8621 Import, export, interoperability (concrete)

Export Unitechnik (79): Previously, when a special formwork attribute code was used, some of the line attributes for openings were not exported correctly. This issue has now been fixed.

TSAC-9151 Import, export, interoperability (concrete)

Export Unitechnik (79): Previously, line attributes were sometimes exported incorrectly. This issue has now been fixed.

TSAC-9183 Import, export, interoperability (concrete)

Export Unitechnik (79): A new user-defined attribute for layer identification code, UT_ConLayerCode, has been added for concrete parts. You can now specify the layer identification code using the new Layer identification code property on the Unitechnik tab in the user-defined attributes of a concrete part. Enter a numeric value.

TSAC-9194 Import, export, interoperability (concrete)

Export Unitechnik (79): Previously, when exporting embeds as bounding box, the embed bounding boxes were sometimes calculated incorrectly. This issue has now been fixed.

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