New versions of Tekla Structural Designer and Tekla Tedds support an integrated design-to-detail workflow.
Trimble has announced the 2025 versions of Tekla Structural Designer, its structural analysis and 3D design software for multimaterial buildings, and Tekla Tedds, its automated civil and structural analysis calculation software. With several updates, both products improve user experience and design collaboration capabilities.
Tekla Structural Designer 2025 and Tekla Tedds 2025 help create connected workflows to facilitate seamless design collaboration between various software solutions like Trimble SketchUp, Autodesk Revit and Tekla Structures. These integrations allow structural engineers to reuse information and share and analyze models efficiently to enhance the engineer’s productivity and accuracy.
Connected ecosystems for confidence in workflows
Models created in Trimble SketchUp can now be used as reference models in Tekla Structural Designer, improving collaboration between architects and structural engineers. In addition, Trimble enhanced the integration of Tekla Structural Designer with Autodesk Revit, allowing a bidirectional transition of models between Revit and Tekla Structural Designer. The Tekla Structural Designer Integrator for Revit 2025 includes improved connectivity rules, additional profile families for the UK and USA markets, and enhanced analytical model creation for more accurate and connected models.
Comprehensive design-to-detail workflow
With an improved workflow between Tekla Structures and Tekla Structural Designer, BIM modelers and structural engineers can share model information for steel structure analysis more efficiently. This data transfer helps minimize errors and supports a smoother design-to-detail process, enhancing collaboration between architects and engineers.
Tekla Structural Designer 2025 also features a way for mapping user-defined attributes (UDA) between Tekla Structural Designer and Tekla Structures, which includes data on critical design values under fire conditions, to address the growing importance of fire safety in structural design. An improved integration with IDEA StatiCa structural analysis software further streamlines the connection design process, facilitating detailed connection design within the Tekla environment.
Tekla Tedds calculations library updates
Trimble values keeping its software libraries and design codes up to date, ensuring that engineers have access to the latest design standards. Therefore, the extensive library of calculations in Tekla Tedds has been updated to incorporate the latest North American Loading and Steel Design codes (ASCE7-22 and AISC360-22). Tekla Tedds has also introduced new temporary works calculations for Outrigger loading design (EN1997/TWf) and Crane wind loading assessment (BS ISO 4302).
Design solutions: Rapid carbon assessments
Tekla Structural Designer 2025 integrates with Structural PANDA, enabling UK structural engineers to conduct carbon assessments during preliminary design. The tool generates multiple structural design options from initial concepts, allowing engineers to consider factors such as carbon footprint and cost. This integration allows seamless import of preliminary schemes into Tekla Structural Designer for further refinement.
Design solutions: Podium structures made easier
To improve masonry design for podium structures in North America, Tekla Structural Designer 2025 introduces enhancements. The update includes wall edge releases and improved reinforcement handling, using a finite element approach to assist engineers in designing masonry walls.
Regional expansion
The addition of a new Mexican environment to the selection of regional settings expands the usability of Tekla Structural Designer 2025 to regions using US codes with metric units.
AI-powered Trimble Assistant for Tekla
The new AI-powered Trimble Assistant for Tekla is available as a web app in Tekla User Assistance. It provides accurate and concise answers to users’ questions on Tekla products — Tekla Structures, Tekla Structural Designer, Tekla Tedds or Tekla PowerFab — by using the Tekla User Assistance knowledge base.
In-product notifications
New in-product notification panes in both Tekla Structural Designer and Tekla Tedds alert users to information about product updates and bulletins.
For more information, visit trimble.com.
