A new version of the flagship structural BIM software improves model-based collaboration with project stakeholders and smart process automation.

Trimble® (Nasdaq: TRMB) has announced the 2025 version of Tekla® Structures, its flagship structural building information modelling (BIM) software. The new version includes AI-enabled tools for increasing productivity and more efficiently creating fabrication drawings. New and improved features make it easier to create, combine, manage, and share information-rich 3D models in real time, allowing for model-based collaboration throughout the construction process.

Tekla Structures 2025 provides enhanced drawing automation capabilities, including new tools that improve the user experience while minimising rework, making it easier for users to follow company and regulatory drawing standards.

AI Cloud Fabrication Drawing Service

Introduced as a preview* in Tekla Structures 2025, the new AI Cloud Fabrication Drawing service allows users to use artificial intelligence in the creation of fabrication drawings without disrupting customers’ usual workflows. The preview feature provides an optional, alternative approach that can reduce the need for manual adjustments.

AI-powered Trimble Assistant for Tekla

A new AI-powered Trimble Assistant for Tekla is now available as an extension to the product and as a web app in Tekla User Assistance, a customer-centric product support system. It uses the Tekla User Assistance knowledge base to provide users with accurate and concise answers to questions about Tekla products, such as Tekla Structures, Tekla Structural Designer, Tekla Tedds, and Tekla PowerFab®.

Seamless Model-Based collaboration with project stakeholders

The Tekla PowerFab Connector functionality in Tekla Structures allows the detailer to submit packages for estimating, purchasing, and fabricating from Tekla Structures with a single click integration to Tekla PowerFab steel fabrication management software. This ensures that material profiles, project statuses, and submittals are fully synchronised in real time, allowing detailers to receive current information and direct feedback on submittals from fabricators. This reduces the need for RFIs and manual updates, potentially improving project profitability for the detailing company. For fabricators, this means less production waste and fewer ad hoc expensive material purchases.

Live collaboration

The Live Collaboration service (new as a preview* in Tekla Structures 2025) allows users to work in the same model with either Trimble Connect® or Tekla Structures. This enables project stakeholders to conduct model-based progress reviews, which is a significant improvement over drawing-based workflows.

TrimBIM

Tekla Structures 2025 now has improved workflows for the IFC format and the more efficient TrimBIM format. Improved data exchange with the Trimble Connect common data environment and collaboration platform enables users to share only what is required for the task, enriching it with model data. This benefits all stakeholders by facilitating efficient data flow and collaboration throughout the project’s lifecycle.

Field-to-Office integration and visibility

Tekla Structures’ new version includes improved integrations that will allow stakeholders in the office and on the field to collaborate more effectively. Users can collaborate in point clouds and 3D models without using local hardware resources thanks to integration with the Trimble Reality Capture platform service.

The redesign of the Layout Manager functionality in Tekla Structures 2025 improves the clarity of as-built checks from the site and provides precise guidance from the office, ensuring both accuracy and efficiency in project execution. These enhancements improve collaboration with project surveyors by integrating model data with field operations.

Further improvements for detailing efficiency

Tekla Structures 2025 features significant usability and performance improvements in property panes and drawing properties dialogues, which improve the overall experience. The 2025 version also includes additional rebar detailing features, such as Reinforcement Sequence Numbering in a pour or cast unit. These enhancements benefit manufacturing processes and on-site work, ensuring complete compliance with standards. The expanded rebar detailing functionality also improves Rebar Sets, making them more useful for a wide range of structures, such as ramps or water drainage slabs with openings.

“Trimble fully embraces connected workflows as the key to building better, faster, safer, cheaper and greener,” says Oxana Kyllönen, product manager, Trimble. “Our Tekla portfolio centers around the concept of connecting multidisciplinary teams in construction around enriched BIM information. The 2025 version of Tekla Structures adds new layers of data quality and information flow for teams working with all materials and in all roles across the construction continuum, helping them to deliver with confidence.”

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