Smart automation and efficient cross-product workflows: highlights of Tekla Structures 2025

Tekla Structures 2025 focuses on intelligent automation for reliable on-time delivery and efficient cross-product workflows, supporting the work of project teams.

• Better fabrication drawing creation - Use Smart create in fabrication drawings to automatically select the best matching drawing template or drawing settings file for any fabrication drawing type, including single-part drawings. Combined with several usability improvements, this feature now enables you to generate desired drawing content quickly and with minimum input. In addition, the improved drawing automation offers better cloning results and more reliable update of views and dimensions particularly in respect to placing the views and dimensions.
• AI Cloud Fabrication drawings (Preview) - The AI Cloud Fabrication drawings feature is a new, advanced way to create fabrication drawings in Tekla Structures. This feature creates new fabrication drawings based on finalized fabrication drawings from previous projects, which have been uploaded to a cloud collection owned by your organization. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is used when classifying drawings into libraries inside the cloud collection and when looking for the best matching drawing to be used in the drawing creation.
• Numbering preview and other numbering improvements - Better control and transparency over numbering and its changes. With the new numbering preview you can now preview the proposed position numbers before you apply the numbering results to model objects.
• Tekla PowerFab Connector—Connect the fabricator and detailer - The enhanced interoperability between Tekla Structures and Tekla PowerFab fabrication management system enables seamless and easy cooperation between steel detailers and fabricators who are using Tekla PowerFab.
• Export STEP and IGES files - New export for automated steel manufacturing - Export polybeams, and straight, curved, and arc shaped profiles with boolean operators directly and quickly in the STEP (.stp) or IGES (.igs) format with real arc and bend data for automated manufacturing of steel parts, especially handrails.
• Renewed Status Sharing - The Status Sharing tool has been completely renewed and embedded into Tekla Structures to streamline workflows for detailers, engineers, fabricators and site teams, providing a common user interface for Status Sharing in Tekla Structures and Trimble Connect for Browser. If you are using Status Sharing between Tekla Structures and Tekla PowerFab, you can filter actions in Tekla Structures to show only those from Tekla PowerFab.
• Live Collaboration for Tekla Structures (Preview) - Collaborate in real-time within 3D models, without exporting or sharing any files, between two or more instances of Tekla Structures or between Trimble Connect and Tekla Structures. This enables live model-based collaboration with a wider project team.
• Improved point cloud experience - You can access, process, manage, and share large point cloud files stored in Trimble Reality Capture platform service. Additionally, Layout manager has been enhanced to improve the workflow and collaboration between the field and the office.

Preview features in Tekla Structures 2025

Some of the features in Tekla Structures 2025 are released as Preview features.

A Preview feature is ready for production use, but the feature development can continue based on the feedback. The Preview features are primarily intended for evaluation purposes, providing an alternative approach to your usual workflows. We encourage you to test these features in a normal business environment and share your feedback. NOTE: a Preview feature may be enhanced, updated, or discontinued at any time in response to feedback. Preview features are provided “as is” without any Trimble warranty or indemnity.

For details about licenses where the Preview features are enabled, see Supported Preview features by license.

Compatibility

We recommend creating a backup of your model in your current Tekla Structures version before migrating your project to the latest release.

For more information about creating a backup of the model, see Save a model: Save a backup copy.

This version is not backwards compatible. When you create or save a model in Tekla Structures 2025, you cannot open it in older versions due to database differences.

See the Tekla Structures hardware recommendations for information on supported operating systems.

Tekla Structures Administrator's release notes

For information on managing Tekla Structures settings for other users or for yourself, see Tekla Structures 2025 Administrator's release notes.

Tekla Structures Localization release notes

For information about new and changed features specific to different localized environments, see Tekla Structures Localization release notes.

Tekla Open API release notes

For developers who create custom applications and extensions using the Tekla Open API, see the Tekla Open API changes in Tekla Structures Open API release notes in Tekla Developer Center.

Summary of release notes across Tekla Structures versions

The Release notes summary across Tekla Structures versions page 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 Obsolete advanced options page provides information about the advanced options that have become obsolete in Tekla Structures in version 2018 and newer.