Other improvements in drawings

Tekla Structures 2026 also contains improvements in Document manager messages, automatic view dimensioning, defining drawing sizes and drawing frame margins and colors, Drawing content manager categories, CIP continuous material visibility, associativity symbols, reference model visibility, detailed object level settings, and log locations.

Document manager

Some messages displayed in the Changes column in Document manager were updated to be more concise and in line with other Document manager messages:

Drawing cloned (earlier: Drawing was cloned)

Drawing cloned from cloud [earlier: Drawing was cloned from cloud)

Drawing updated (earlier: Drawing was updated)

For more information, see Document manager.

TTSD-67170

Enhancements in dimensioning

New dimensioning type in automatic view dimensioning - Center of gravity dimensions

Tekla Structures 2026 provides a new rule-based dimensioning type, Center of gravity dimensions, in the view-specific dimensioning. Now you can create dimensions indicating the center of gravity automatically in your fabrication drawings.

This improvement was already introduced in Tekla Structures 2025 SP2.

For more information, see Dimension rule properties and Add automatic view-level dimensions.

TSAC-8713

Bolt size dimensioned in view-specific dimensioning

When you dimension bolt groups using the Filter dimensioning type, the bolt groups are now dimensioned not only by bolt positions but also by bolt size.

TSAC-8890

Drawing Layout editor - New dialogs for defining drawing sizes and frame margins

The Drawing size settings dialog now allows you to:

Add or edit drawing sizes using a dedicated dialog. Right-click a drawing size row and select Edit to open the dialog, then enter the values. If necessary, select Autosize.
Define frame margins and colors using a dedicated dialog. Right-click a frame row and select Edit to open the dialog, then enter the values and select the color.

This improvement was already introduced in Tekla Structures 2025 SP4.

For more information, see Create and edit drawing layouts.

TTSD-71227, TTSD-50381

Surface treatments in Drawing content manager

Drawing content manager has a new building object category: surface treatments. You can now easily define and manage marks for painting and coating surfaces, and check if the surface treatments have all the marks, and easily add or remove marks.

For more information, see Drawing content manager.

TTSD-73166

CIP Continuous material to use correct solid in drawings

If a continuous material part has an edge chamfer, the edge chamfer will always be visible in the drawings as well. Similarly, the inner loops (holes) are always visible in the drawings, regardless of the part settings Outline or Exact. The solid clipping operation is defined only for those solid forms that include these settings.

TTSD-74077

Consistent associativity symbol size

The associativity symbol is now drawn in screen coordinates. Previously, the symbol size changed when you zoomed, now it stays the same.

For more information about the associativity of drawings, see Drawings in Tekla Structures.

TTSD-72111

Reference models visible in drawings

All reference models are now visible in the Reference objects list in the Reference object section of the drawing view properties. Previously, some reference models were sometimes disappearing from the list and could not be shown in drawings.

For more information, see Show reference objects in drawings.

This improvement was already introduced in Tekla Structures 2025 SP5.

TTSD-69406

Detailed object level settings

View-level detailed object level settings did not work correctly if the drawing-level detailed object level settings were turned off. This issue has now been fixed.

For more information, see Create and apply detailed object level settings.

This improvement was already introduced in Tekla Structures 2025 SP6.

TTSD-73541

Location change for drawing, cloning, and printing logs

The printing log file, DPMPrinter_<print_job>.log, is now saved in the application data log folder in %LocalAppdata%\Trimble\Tekla Structures\<version>\Logs. Earlier, this log was saved in the current model folder.

TTSD-69883
The drawing_cloning.log and drawing_history_log are now saved in the \logs folder under the current model folder. Earlier, these logs were saved in the model root folder.

TTSD-70361

For more information, see Log files about the operation of Tekla Structures.