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 which supports 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.
• 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 match 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.
• Renewed Status Sharing - The Status Sharing tool has been completely renewed and embedded to Tekla Structures for streamlining work flows for detailers, engineers, fabricators, and site teams.
• Live Collaboration for Tekla Structures (Preview) - Collaborate in real time within the 3D model, without exporting or sharing any files, enabling live model-based collaboration with a wider project team.
• Direct workflow to stream point clouds - You can access, process, manage, and share large point cloud files stored in Trimble Reality Capture platform service. In addition, Layout manager has been enhanced to improve the workflow between the field and the office, and to improve productivity and collaboration between detailers, engineers, fabricators, and site teams.

Preview features in Tekla Structures 2025

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

Compatibility

We suggest that you complete any unfinished models using your current version of Tekla Structures.

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 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.