Tekla Structures 2024 release notes
Welcome to Tekla Structures 2024!
Enjoy an easy and self-guided user experience with enhancements introduced in Tekla Structures 2024. Deliver the required documentation and model information efficiently using a wider variety of supported industry formats. Collaborate with ease and in compliance with your project’s specifications. Leverage the power of enhanced communication between all project stakeholders for more integrated, connected workflows.
Check the information below on the many new features and improvements in this version:
- More reliable drawing cloning
- New custom colors in drawings and printing line property improvements
- New font height metric option for printing and exporting drawings: CAP height
- New DGN export option for drawings
- New way to handle empty marks and associative notes
- Improvements in drawing dimensions
- Other improvements in drawings
- Drawing property pane improvements
- More efficient way copy object properties in the property pane: Copy to clipboard
- New interactive model view rotation
- Snap to parallel points & snap to object faces
- Renewed interactive bolt creation with preview
- Improved in-app instructions for self-sufficient learning experience
- Other modeling improvements
- Reinforcement improvements
- New IFC property set definition - control all hidden, hard-coded, and buildingSmart properties
- Trimble Connect: BCF Topics replace ToDos in Tekla Structures
- More accurate model representation in the model upload to Trimble Connect
- New model export format - 3D PDF
- Import from Tekla Structural Designer
- Other interoperability improvements
- Tekla Model Sharing: selection for data storage location
- Integrated link to Tekla Tedds for simple connections
- Integrated Bridge creator for bridge design
- Improvements in components
- Changes in advanced options
- Tekla Structures 2024 fixlist
- 2024 SP1: Important improvements and fixes
- 2024 SP2: Important improvements and fixes
- 2024 SP3: Important improvements and fixes
- Tekla Structures 2024 administrator's release notes
- Localization release notes
Service packs
Follow the links below for information on new features, improvements and fixes made in each currently available service pack:
Compatibility
We suggest that you complete any unfinished models using your current version of Tekla Structures.
This version is not backwards compatible. When you create or save a model in Tekla Structures 2024, you cannot open it in older versions due to database differences.
See the hardware recommendations for information on supported operating systems.
Administrator's release notes
Advanced users should read the Tekla Structures administrator's release notes for information on how to apply the additional customizations available in this release.
Localization release notes
Environment-specific changes are explained in the Localization release notes.
Tekla Open API release notes
The Tekla Open API release notes can be found in the Tekla Developer Center.
Release notes summary across Tekla Structures versions
The Release notes summary across Tekla Structures versions provides an overview to the new features and improvements in Tekla Structures versions and service packs for Tekla Structures version 2018 and newer. The summary is available in English only.
List of obsolete advanced options across Tekla Structures versions
The list of obsolete advanced options provides information about the advanced options that have become obsolete in Tekla Structures in version 2018 and newer.