Tekla Structural Designer 2025 release notes
Welcome to Tekla Structural Designer 2025!
Highlights of Tekla Structural Designer 2025
For General and Modeling highlights, see:
- New Edge release options for meshed walls
- New Notifications side pane
- New Show/Alter State Attribute: Effective Lengths and Factors
- New Show/Alter State Attribute: Any Property
- Planarize - enhanced for pitched roof models from BIM Integration
- New Instructor side pane
For Loading highlights, see:
For Design highlights, see:
- New exterior masonry wall design and other masonry improvements
- Eurocode - steel member fire data calculation
- Steel connections - new bracing connections
For Interoperability highlights, see:
- Semantic TrimBIM Import (Steel)
- Enhanced transfer of UDAs between Tekla Structural Designer and Tekla Structures
- Interoperability - Structural PANDA integration
For other enhancements and fixes, see:
Note:
We deliver new features and enhancements in Service Packs as well as the main annual release. We are aware that many users may not install the service packs and so, for completeness, enhancements in 2024 Service Packs are also included in the above.
Service packs
Follow the links below for information on new features, improvements and fixes
made in each currently available service pack:
Compatibility
Files from all previous versions can be opened in this release however, note that, once saved, they cannot then be opened in a previous release. If you wish to retain this option we therefore recommend using the File > Save As… option to save a copy of the file in the previous release and retain the original.
Integration
See below for information regarding integration of this version with specific products.
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Tekla Structures - if you wish to integrate with Tekla Structures you should install both this release and Tekla Structures 2025.
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Tekla Portal Frame and Connection Designer 25 - if you install this release and use Tekla Portal Frame Designer and/or Tekla Connection Designer you should install the new Tekla Portal Frame Designer 25 and/or Tekla Connection Designer 25 available from Trimble Downloads.
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Tekla Tedds - for integrated design using Tekla Tedds you should install Tekla Tedds 2025 AND ensure you have installed the latest updates for this. These can be obtained from Trimble Downloads.
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Autodesk Revit© - the most recent Tekla Structural Designer Integrator for Autodesk Revit© 2025 was released in April 2025. For more information about this see the Tekla Structural Designer Integrator for Autodesk Revit 2025 SP1 Release Notes. The installation for this is available from Trimble Downloads. If you are now using Autodesk Revit© 2025, you can install this to perform BIM integration with Tekla Structural Designer.
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Supported Revit Versions - the other currently supported Revit versions are: Tekla Structural Designer Integrator for Autodesk Revit 2023 SP2 and Tekla Structural Designer Integrator for Autodesk Revit 2024 SP2. The installation for these are available from Trimble Downloads. If you are performing BIM integration with any of these previous Revit© versions, we recommend you install the latest version of the associated Integrator.
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Summary of release notes across Tekla Structural Designer versions
The Release notes summary across Tekla Structural Designer versions page provides an overview to the new features and improvements in Tekla Structural Designer versions and service packs for Tekla Structural Designer version 2018 and newer.