You can now enable piece tracking by job in Maintenance > Production Control > Company Standards.

With Enable Piece Tracking/Enable Load Tracking selected, every new job has piece/load tracking enabled by default as long as the shape does not have the Exclude from Piece/Load Tracking option enabled in Shape Maintenance in Maintenance > Shapes/Grades/Sizes. You can turn piece tracking on and off for an individual job as well.

See also the following content:

• Define company standard settings for Production Control
• Create a production control job

You can now import the net weight as calculated by Tekla Structures into a production control job.

You can customize the grid to display net weight for the following new columns:

• Assembly Model Weight
• Assembly Model Weight Each (per each assembly)
• Model Weight
• Model Weight Each (per each part)

For instructions on customizing the display grid, see Customize the layout of a dialog.

You can also include Net Weight, Gross Weight, and Model Weight in production control reports by selecting the desired option in the Weight Type.

To use this option, you must have Prompt for weight type (net/gross) selected in Maintenance > Production Control > Company Standards.

See also the following content:

• Define company standard settings for Production Control
• Add a production control item

In Administration, you can now identity employees as shop-floor workers by selecting the new Production Employee checkbox.

This selection restricts the number of users who appear in Completed By in Production Tracking in Tekla PowerFab Go and in Station - Add Completed in the Tekla PowerFab desktop app.

This is useful for companies that have a large number of Tekla PowerFab desktop app users who are not shop-floor workers.

See also the following instructions: .

• Manage Tekla PowerFab users
• Manage production tracking statuses in Tekla PowerFab Go
• Track production by piece mark

You can now add the most common finishes to a mapping table in Maintenance > Production Control > Finish Maintenance. Then, you do not need to create a translation every time you import as Tekla PowerFab identifies the abbreviation and maps it automatically to the correct finish.

Imports check the finish mappings when looking up the correct finish record. For example, the GALV may benefit from having the mappings GAL, Galv, Galvanized, and Zinc.

See also Manage material finish options.

A new filter and search field has been added to the job selection dialog in the Combining, Estimating, Project Management, Production Control, and Purchasing modules.

You can now set a default workshop in Maintenance > Company Information.

When you have set a default workshop, it appears as the default value in Workshop when you are creating a new work package either manually or using Smart Create, and when creating a cut list.

For more information, see the following:

• Company information
• Create and modify a work package
• Create work packages with Smart Create
• Create a cut list

With the new Export Files option in Document Index, you can now easily export your document references as a ZIP file.

For more information, see Add document references.

On the General tab in the Firm Details dialog, there is a new button, Show Inventory. It allows you to open the inventory for suppliers who have been defined as Is Mill.

For more information, see Add companies to the address book.

You can now view a date and time stamp on documents that you have uploaded into an inspection.

To add this new column, right-click on the dialog, and select Customize grid.

See also the following:

• Customize the layout of a dialog
• Inspection test records

When you are loading material to a purchase order or requisition, you can now select to automatically open the requisition or purchase order.

See the following:

• Load combining items into purchasing
• Load estimating materials into purchasing
• Load production control items to purchasing

There are multiple improvements in Trimble Viewpoint integration to reduce manual interaction in the data export/import process for purchase orders and job costing between Tekla PowerFab and Trimble Viewpoint.

• You can now add more than one company code linked to inventory locations to export to. This allows the use of multiple general ledger (GL) credit and debit accounts for multiple companies.
• You can link the companies to a location so that the job costing report reflects where the material should be charged to.
• You can add company codes with their dedicated GL debit and credit accounts.
• You can select a company code in the Purchase Order dialog.

For more information, see the following:.

• Trimble Viewpoint: Manage purchase orders
• Create a purchase order

In Production Control, the CNC File - Hole Diameter field now includes slot properties.

In Automated Events, work package reports are now available in the Report event type.

In Event Type, the following new types have been added to automate these exports:

• Trimble Viewpoint Job Costing Export
• Trimble Viewpoint Receiving Export