Concrete console (110): The corbel type and class are now concrete when the corbel material is concrete. In addition, the corbel inherits the position prefix of the main part when a prefix has not been defined for the corbel.

Tapered I beam (81): Previously, the dimensions of tapered beams were not created correctly in some cases. This issue has now been fixed.

Cap plate detail: Previously, if there were different cap plate types in a model (both circular and rectangular), opening the properties of any cap plate component did not display the properties correctly, and you had to click Get to display the correct properties. This issue has now been fixed.
 

Railings (S77): Previously, when the rail ended near the bent part of the rail, the rail was created with incorrect geometry. This issue has now been fixed.

Kingspan Horizontal cladding sleeve (120): Previously, when there was a single-sided stay, the bolt from the opposite side was removed. This issue has now been fixed.

Stiffened base plate (1014): Previously, modifying stiffener dimensions also affected the class of shim plates. This issue has now been fixed.

Box bolt (13): Previously, the bolt cut length was incorrectly calculated for some profiles. This issue has now been fixed.
 

Joist to beam, type 1 (160): Previously, a full depth stabilizer plate was not created correctly in some situations. This issue has now been fixed.

Stanchions (S76): Previously, stanchions were created with incorrect geometry when the input parts had fittings applied on them. This issue has now been fixed.

Haunch (40): It is now possible to specify on the Haunch tab if dimensions H1 or H2 are to the upper or lower edge of the haunch flange.

Cage ladder (S60): Previously, the part properties - name, material, class, and finish - were incorrectly applied for one of the rail bars. This issue has now been fixed.

Generation of profiles (9): Previously, the prefix and start number for the part and assembly position numbers were not applied for the profiles specified on the Prof.//X_m and Prof.//Y_m tabs. This issue has now been fixed.

Stiffened end plate (27): Previously, bolts were created in an incorrect position. This issue has now been fixed.

Stairs (S71): Previously, the steps were clashing with the stringers in some situations. This issue has now been fixed.

JP Floor beam gusset (11): Previously, bolt cut length was incorrectly calculated in some situations. This issue has now been fixed.

Cold rolled overlap (1): Previously, the component did not work correctly for PEB members with multiple depths. This issue has now been fixed.

Previously, there was an error when trying to open Organizer in a model that had multiple UDAs with an identical presentation name. Now the duplicate UDAs are renamed, and Organizer opens normally.

Import from Tekla Structural Designer: While importing from Tekla Structural Designer to Tekla Structures, some specific beam bottom rebar sets (such as hooks or bobs with crank) were not importing correctly. This issue has been addressed now.

Import from Tekla Structural Designer: Previously, a few standard UB and CHS sections were not getting imported from Tekla Structural Designer into Tekla Structures automatically. The workaround was to create and use manually written conversion files. A direct mapping for those sections has been established now.

IFC2x3 export: Objects with multiple fittings were sometimes exported incorrectly. This issue has now been fixed.

Import from Tekla Structural Designer: While importing a model from Tekla Structural Designer to Tekla Structures, there was an issue with the Z grid labels in Tekla Structures with respect to the levels in Tekla Structural Designer. This issue has now been addressed and fixed.

Drawing and report templates: Previously, the output in the resulting report and drawing tables was not consistent when you had used the same fvf formula in the report template and drawing template. This issue has now been fixed, and the output is the same in reports and drawing tables.

Drawing and report templates: For the fvf function, the 5th argument is now available also in drawing templates and custom components. If it is set to TRUE, empty entries from the read line of the file will be considered when the function gets resolved. If it is missing or set to FALSE, empty entries are removed.

2D Library

The 2D library has been improved in the following ways:

• Issues with the text frame in marks that have black background haven been fixed.
• The scaling of marks, dimensions, text, and symbols is now working.
• Images are now supported.
• Rich text is now supported.
• Issues with the text leader line have been fixed.
• The text scale inside rich text boxes is now working.

A critical error occurred when you used the Undo command after the Combine lines command. This issue has now been fixed.

Dimensioning holes and recesses: The performance of the dimensioning type Hole dimensions has been improved significantly when the dimensioning option Use filter is used. With the other option, All holes, the performance is the same as before.

Previously, curved dimensions in 2D Library details did not work correctly. This issue has now been fixed.

Drawing 2D Library: You can use the new Scale option in the Options menu to lock or scale the font height when changing the scale of a detail in a drawing.

Earlier, when creating unfolded single-part drawings for lofted plates that had oblique cylindrical geometry, bending lines were missing. This issue has now been fixed.

Revision marks: Adding revision marks using the drawing property pane now works more reliably.

Fabrication drawings: The Applied settings list in the Creation review dialog box might sometimes show the same drawing settings file more than once. This issue has now been fixed.

Properties dialog performance in drawings

• The drawing view properties dialog opening remains fast, after the first time you open it, for the whole session. Previously, the cached dialog was cleared each time you moved between the model and drawing editors.
• The drawing view properties dialog opens fast again after you have closed it using the Close button. Previously, the cached dialog was cleared when you used the Close button, and opening the dialog the next time was slow.

You can now use the Adjust reinforcing bars command from the Quick Launch in the Tekla Structures Graphite configuration and the Rebar Detailing configuration. You can also add the command button to the ribbon.

Cloning of section views has been improved by better recognition and handling of polygon cuts.

Drawing content manager: Drawing content manager did not show some dimensions correctly. This issue has now been fixed.

In the property panes for Section mark, Section mark with a view, Detail mark, and Detail mark with a view, the Line size setting is now disabled when the Symbol type option None is selected.

Previously, when printing drawings, arrows with a negative length were not printed. This issue has now been fixed.
 

The detection of which section views should be removed in drawing updates or cloning has been improved.

Previously, Drawing content manager did not properly count marks that had only symbols without a frame in them. This issue has now been fixed.

Earlier, when using the Select part marks command for selected parts, the property pane was still showing the properties of the selected parts. This issue has now been fixed.

The drawing property pane is now able to handle updates related to symbols better, for example, when a new symbol is selected, or a symbol is replaced with another one.

The property pane file path fields, such as the path to an image, now open the folder of the selected image by default rather than the last used folder.

Detail and section mark label updates: Detail and section mark label property changes are now updated in the views that are moved to another drawing.

Previously, merged rebar marks showed the content of only one rebar mark. This issue has now been fixed and the content of every different rebar mark is shown in the merged mark.

Previously, part marks that contained templates did not work properly when using the Copy to new sheet command to clone drawings. This issue has now been fixed.

Sometimes, the postfix tag in a dimension was lost in an update or when opening a drawing. This issue has now been fixed.

Earlier, there was a rare situation when creating a polyline caused Tekla Structures to exit unexpectedly. This issue has now been fixed.

Previously, when a .dat file located in a sub-folder of the XS_PROJECT, XS_FIRM, or XS_PROFDB folder was used as the first argument of the fvf() function, the .dat file was not found. This issue has now been fixed.

Tekla Model Sharing: Users, who have restricted licenses which do not allow model editing, may experience connection plugin crashes in some circumstances when the model changes are read in. To prevent this happening, do not run the connection plugins during read in. 

Tekla Model Sharing: Previously, when you excluded a model from Tekla Model Sharing, the deletion of a backup folder could potentially stop the application from working if the folder entry was corrupted. Now the folder deletion has been improved to prevent this.

Tekla Model Sharing: When UDAs with incorrect type were removed by using the Repair model command, the deleted UDAs were not shown in the Changes list. This has now been fixed. 

Rebar sets: Previously, bars in some rebar groups were rounded to the same length even if the rounding option used for straight bars was None. This happened because the bars were recognized as identical and were rounded based on the first bar of the group. Now, when the rounding option for straight bars is None, bars that are recognized as identical retain their original lengths without rounding.

Rebar meshes: Tekla Structures might close unexpectedly if you inquired rebar meshes and no report template was found. This issue has now been fixed.

Rebar groups: The end cover thickness was incorrectly applied when the start cover thickness was negative for a straight radial tapered curved rebar group. This issue has now been fixed.

The Fit objects component now works correctly when creating a gap between the main and secondary part in situations when fit or cut planes are applied.

BCF Topics: Now, the arrowheads for BCF topic markups and annotations resize according to the zoom level in a Tekla Structures model.

Now, the Swap handles macro changes the On plane offset to its opposite value instead of changing the On plane from right to left and vice versa. This ensures the intended use of the swap handles flipping the geometry on a beam when the handles are created in the wrong order. Previously, when the handles of a U beam were swapped, the handles were placed to the other side, resulting to the need of fixing the swap.

BCF Topics: The BCF topics workflow has been improved for IFC files that have been added as overlay models in Tekla Structures. Now, a BCF topic view created in Trimble Connect and loaded in Tekla Structures highlights also those parts that were selected when a topic view was saved. Saving a view in Tekla Structures will remember the selected parts and highlight them the next time this view is loaded in Tekla Structures. Note that highlighting selected parts is not yet supported in Trimble Connect when you are working with BCF topics created in Tekla Structures.

BCF Topics: The BCF topics workflow has been improved for IFC files that have been added as overlay models in Tekla Structures. Now, a BCF topic view created in Trimble Connect and loaded in Tekla Structures hides also those parts that were hidden when a topic view was saved. To reset the visibility of hidden parts, reload the overlay models in Tekla Structures.
 

BCF Topics: Now, highlighting linked objects works also with overlay models in Tekla Structures. IFC model objects that were linked to a BFC topic in Trimble Connect can be visualized in Tekla Structures overlay models. Also, overlay model objects that were linked to a BCF topic in Tekla Structures can be visualized both in Tekla Structures and in Trimble Connect. Note that visualizing linked assemblies is not supported in Tekla Structures for overlay models.

Earlier, in some specific situations when the Compare assemblies command was used, Tekla Structures was unexpectedly closed. This issue has now been fixed.

BCF Topics: Now, when you click Delete all measurements or Delete all markups, a confirmation message appears in the same way as in Trimble Connect.

Now, when you copy properties in the property pane using the Copy to clipboard command, you can copy individual properties of an object to the clipboard. You can copy  one or more properties to the clipboard and paste the properties to objects of the same type. After you have copied properties to the clipboard, and place your mouse on the Paste button, Tekla Structures shows a preview of the properties that are about to be pasted.

Previously, the dynamic preview of the Move or Copy command caused Tekla Structures to stop working when using the command for reinforcement containing a very large number of vertices, for example, a braced girder. This issue has now been fixed.

BCF Topics: More object states are supported, and now BCF topic views that originate from 3rd party applications and that are loaded in Tekla Structures are displaying selected and hidden objects correctly.

Previously, when you opened models created in versions prior to Tekla Structures 2017 in newer versions and the models had corrupted bolts, an exception was generated. This has now been fixed, and you can now open such models. In addition, using the command Diagnose model lists such bolts and Repair model removes them.

The Create view on work plane command is now available in Carbon and Viewer configurations. If you are using your own ribbon setups, you need to configure the environment or local settings to see the command.

Now, the property pane correctly displays underscores in group titles.

Previously, the Custom component dialog editor remained open if Tekla Structures was closed. This has now been fixed, and the Custom component dialog editor is closed together with Tekla Structures.

If the Synchronize with master model (save-numbering-save) setting is selected in the Numbering Setup dialog, and you run a numbering command, Tekla Structures displays the Numbering list that shows the numbering progress and results, and you will have the option to check and save the numbering results, or to cancel the numbering. Previously, if you used the Compare parts or Compare assemblies command while the list was open, the list was closed and the model was reopened. This issue has now been fixed, and opening the Compare dialog no longer reopens the model.

Export to Tekla PowerFab: The Tekla PowerFab export now uses the CNC settings for scribing and pop-marks when creating CNC files during the export.

DSTV to DXF converter: You can now select multiple rows also on the Hole layers and Tapped holes tabs.

Export Unitechnik (79): Previously, some reinforcement was exported to an incorrect position when you had selected Fabrication of welded rebars as the Reinforcement export type on the Reinforcement tab. This issue has now been fixed.

Export ELiPLAN file (68): Previously, round-shaped edge contour corners were exported as bounding boxes. This has now been fixed and round-shaped edge contour corners are correctly exported as lines.

Export Unitechnik (79): When exporting meshes into individual files using the Split meshes to individual files setting on the Main tab, a running number is now automatically added to the file name.