Renewed Layout manager user interface

The Layout manager user interface has been renewed. The new user interface has many improvements that allow you to customize the settings to fit your project requirements. The Layout manager user interface now offers simple navigation, intuitive ribbon tools, and automatic error handling, for example.

Create layout points, lines, and arcs

You can now create layout points, layout lines, and layout arcs using the commands in the Layout manager dialog. The command buttons on the Layout manager ribbon open the dialogs where you can define the properties.

You can now easily define the default size of layout points, lines, and arcs in the Layout manager settings. Click the button in Layout manager to open the settings. As before, you can also define the class and shape for points, and class for lines and arcs. Previously, the Class property was called Color in the settings.

Enhanced grouping features

Enhanced grouping features allow for better organization of layout data. The limitation of a maximum of 255 groups was already removed in Tekla Structures 2024 SP1.

You can now add UDAs to groups of points in the new Set attributes dialog for easier on-site management and identification. Right-click a group in Layout manager to open the dialog.

Automatic error detection

When you enter values, Layout manager now automatically shows a warning if the entered value is not suitable.

Improvements in import and export

Import and export options for Trimble Connect

You can now use the new import and export commands to transfer layout data from and to Trimble Connect effortlessly to enable seamless data sharing with automatically up-to-date files. The layout data is imported and exported in Trimble FieldLink .tflx file format.

Improvements in import and export dialogs

The import and export dialogs have been improved to have a wider preview area that makes viewing and verifying data easier, especially when working with larger data sets. A progress bar has also been added to show the status of data import and export.

In the Layout manager settings, you can now easily change the order of the columns in the import and export dialogs.

The import and export dialogs now only contain tabs that have content. For example, if there are no layout arcs, the dialog does not show a tab for layout arcs.

Import/Export error detection

There is now an error message if you try to import or export an incorrectly formatted file.