Accelerate the fabrication drawing creation with AI-assisted template selection and enhanced cloning and associativity. Launched in 2025 as a preview feature for Diamond licenses, this service has been improved based on feedback.

• The new AI model improves template matching from the cloud libraries, while a human-in-the-loop step helps fine-tune the AI suggestions.

• The interface has been updated with a clear template preview and top three AI-based matches. Enhanced cloning ensures reliable placement of annotations, dimensions, and views for consistent drawings. Additionally, a new re-upload tool flags drawings that benefit from cloning improvements and supports bulk re-uploading.

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Simplify the management of project settings by enabling easy sharing and customization using cloud environments.

• This new, web-based tool ensures all users have consistent, up-to-date settings throughout the project, preventing errors in the model and promoting smoother collaboration.

• By simply joining a project, all necessary project files and extensions are available for users. Administrators can create custom collections and test them in a sandbox environment before publishing them to all users.

Enhance productivity with the AI-powered tools.

• The User Assistant provides quick access to information and personalized support.

• Reduce manual effort in creating technical code with the Developer Assistant (Preview).

• Interact with models and drawings intuitively using the experimental Model Assistant and natural language prompts to simplify tasks and stay focused on your designs. Model Assistant reads your model context in real-time and handles the tasks you assign. The feature is available now only in Trimble Labs as an extension for early feedback.

Enhance the efficiency of preparing plan, section, and elevation drawings by editing both the model and the drawing at the same time.

• Modify model and a general arrangement drawing simultaneously, with both modes displayed side by side.

• Selecting objects in one mode automatically selects the corresponding objects in the other, facilitating easier navigation. Any changes made to objects in the model are immediately reflected in the drawing.

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Finalize designs efficiently with enhanced drawing sketching tools that are now easier to find and use for creating and editing sketch objects.

• New review cloud options add flexibility, while the new 2D Insulation command adjusts automatically to the model changes, helping you keep drawings up to date with less effort.

• Add formatted project notes using the integrated rich text editor.

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Efficiently reuse model and drawing content with the new clipboard functionality, enabling you to easily copy and paste model objects and drawing objects. Now, each time you copy objects in a model or in a drawing, the objects are always copied to the clipboard, allowing you to later paste model objects into the current model or any other model, or to paste drawing objects into the current drawing or any other drawing in the same or another model, leading to substantial time-savings.

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A new property lets concrete and steel parts to be bound to grid z-levels. During the early conceptual phase, frequent changes in part levels along the z-direction can be time-consuming to adjust manually. Now, if there are any changes in the part levels in the z-direction, all bound parts update to match the new z-direction elevation.

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Enjoy a modern way to organize and manage the large number of model views in your project. The new side pane makes it easy to manage and navigate all model views flexibly but in a controlled manner, and to create general arrangement drawings of the selected model views.

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Customize your in-product workspace appearance.

• Change the model background color with one click.

• Position model views and drawings using the new, responsive docking zones.

• Use the improved model and drawing autosave and set it to the interval that suits your needs, and restore the autosaved model and drawing when necessary.

• Gain better control over rebar sets for improved model stability and easily annotate reinforcement in drawings to industry standards. Specific rebar sets can be frozen to prevent automated adjustments and support a modeling approach similar to rebar groups, while retaining the advantages of rebar sets. Freezing rebars could be useful when they are already sent to manufacturing to avoid any changes.

• The experience between rebar groups and rebar sets has been unified by adding more controls to rebar set properties. You can split rebar sets using the familiar split command and adjust covers, offsets and other settings consistently.

• Improved rebar drawing annotations make it easier to annotate drawings to industry standards.

Improved and streamlined model exchange between Tekla Structures and Tekla Structural Designer to verify the structural design of your steel or concrete structures.

• This new Preview feature lets you publish the full model or selected parts of the Tekla Structures model to the cloud, enabling a Tekla Structural Designer user to bring them in without both applications needing to be on the same computer.

• This new workflow also supports revision handling.

• Steel and concrete models with columns, beams, braces, walls, and slabs can be transferred to Tekla Structural Designer as native members. Profiles and materials are mapped automatically, and walls are split inside Tekla Structural Designer for immediate use.

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Reduce processing time in complex bridge modeling with the re-engineered Bridge creator, now a native Tekla plug-in storing data in component objects instead of external files.

• All configuration data is now stored inside component objects, removing reliance on external files and making modifications straightforward.

• Intelligent automation replaces repetitive manual tasks of shape naming.

• New centralized libraries and rule-based logic now handle station creation and definition with less effort.

• Placement on curved alignments is now more consistent thanks to chord-based positioning, which avoids uneven spacing along the curve.

• New layout and verification tools, including off-alignment projection and perpendicular aides, make point placement along the bridge alignment easier.

Share only the information defined in each stakeholder’s RFIs when exporting IFC2x3 or IFC4 to reduce follow-up.

• Flexible export options allow selecting and exporting individual objects even within assemblies, with or without assembly information.

  The unified export also supports direct publishing to Trimble Connect.

• Previously fixed IFC entity attributes can now be adjusted, and you can also change the IFC entity type for reinforcement.

• The IFC4.3 export meets the mandatory requirements for both the building and bridge domains.

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Operate in real time with accurate, up-to-date property data from the construction site or factory directly in your Tekla Structures model through the integrated Trimble Connect property sets.

• Synchronize and manage property sets from Trimble Connect in Tekla Structures and use them, for example, in filters, reports, templates, drawing marks, and IFC exports, similar to regular user-defined attributes or template attributes.

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• Upload drawing PDFs to Trimble Connect with metadata, preventing outdated drawings from being used.

• When printing drawings, automatically upload and link PDFs directly to the corresponding parts and assemblies in the Trimble Connect model, storing drawings alongside the model objects.

• Shop and field crews can pull up the latest drawings on a tablet associated with the actual object, ensuring that the most current data is being used.

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• Use the out-of-tolerance check in Layout manager to identify discrepancies between the design and what has been built, speeding up decisions on how to correct them.

• Layout manager now comes with an updated user interface that enables the out-of-tolerance workflow. Automatically identify and colorize out-of-tolerance points, generate delta-value reports, compare as-designed and as-built points and add dimensions between them in a drawing. This turns raw site data into actionable insights and supports timely corrections.

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