Customize catalogs and databases
You can customize catalogs and databases to contain the only relevant content for your project. Customizing catalogs and databases helps you to simplify your work and avoid mistakes.
You can customize catalogs and databases for:
Always ensure that the catalog content is correct. Mistakes in catalogs might lead to serious inconsistencies in quantity information, data transfer, or other calculations. For example, incorrect material density leads to systematic errors in reported weights.
You can add new content to catalogs from other environments, from Tekla Warehouse, or import content created in other software solutions.
Additional content in Tekla Warehouse
In Tekla Warehouse, you can find additional content, such as application tools and environment content.
You can download Tekla Warehouse offline content that includes the catalog content of environments, such as profiles, bolts, materials, and reinforcements. The content is in .tsep packages that are installed when you open Tekla Structures.
The offline catalog content is under Tekla Structures collections in Tekla Warehouse. To find this content, search for Catalogs, then under Show select Collections.
You can also create a local collection for your company, and share it with your organization in your internal network. You can manage the access rights on the folder and collection level in the collections.json file on each user's computer. Copy the file to the same location on each user's computer. The file is located in C:\Users\Public\Public Documents\Trimble\Tekla Warehouse\collections.json.
This image shows an example of the collection paths with four Tekla Structures collections:
In Tekla Warehouse the collections are found after mapping under .
