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Tekla Tedds

Automate your engineering calculations and boost productivity

For more than 20 years, Tekla Tedds has been the go-to document and 3D design solution for engineers. This powerful, easy-to-use structural analysis software reduces repetitive hand calculations and offers dependable multi-material element design because of its extensive, easy-to-inspect, quality-assured library of calculations.

STREAMLINE YOUR WORKFLOWS

As a specialist solution for civil and structural engineers, Tekla Tedds has been designed by engineers for engineers. You can rely on Tekla Tedds for fast and accurate civil and structural engineering calculations.

The software automates calculations, improving engineering productivity and quality by replacing tedious, time-consuming hand calculations. The software has a quality assured library of multi-material code compliant calculations and gives users the flexibility to create additional calculations and elegant, engaging design documents.

Tekla Tedds Key Benefits

Quality assured library

Tedds consistently and quickly delivers answers. You can avoid errors and streamline code compliant design delivery thanks to a quality assured library of regularly updated multi-material calculations.

Transparent Calculations

Tedds’ calculations are easily visible for rapid review and validation. Unlike hard-to-check spreadsheets, Tedds puts you in control with calculations that are easy to inspect and approve.

Professional Documentation

With Tedds’ desktop publishing features, engineers have the power to quickly create and customize content output for professional project documentation that’s consistently competitive.

Tekla Tedds is Ideal for:

Frame Analysis

Tekla Tedds is a reliable, single software solution for both calculations and frame analysis that transforms the way engineers work. With Tedds structural frame analysis software, you can easily define structural frames such as trusses or continuous beams in 2D, analyze them, link the results to calculations and insert them into a document.

Structural Members, Beam and Column Design

Beams and columns are among the most important structural members and when designing them, you need speed and reliability to meet tight deadlines and changing demands. Tedds supports early design decisions by automating repetitive calculations in the face of complex situations and rigorous requirements. Quick calculations let you easily select beam and column size and clear documentation professionally details options.

Connection Design

In addition to working closely with our steel connection design partners both locally and globally, Tedds can help with simple connection design for steel, precast concrete, and timber structures.

Foundation Design

The foundation is one of the most important parts of a structure—and one of the costliest. Uncomplicated, constructible and economical foundations are the basis of successful structural design on both straightforward and difficult sites. Tedds improves structural and civil engineering productivity and quality by replacing repetitive time-consuming hand calculations with automated foundation design calculations.

Structural Load Analysis Software

Every structural design project is about safe and affordable loading. Be it single or multi-family housing, commercial buildings or industrial structures, Tedds can help you quickly address the challenge of code compliance without over specification. With Tedds, you can harness the power of automation, speeding up engineering design accuracy so you can spend less time loading and more time designing.

Retaining Wall Design and Wall Panel Design

Whether it’s an independent structure or part of a building, Tedds ensures easy retaining wall design, as well as designing types of wall panels. You can count on Tedds’ automation for fast and accurate structural and civil calculations and forget about time-consuming hand calculations and spreadsheets. Tedds has an easy to inspect, quality assured library of multi-material code compliant calculations for wall panel and retaining wall design.

Floor and Roof Analysis

Tekla Tedds offers dependable multi-material element design for floors and roofs. By replacing the need for repetitive hand calculations, Tedds’ floor and roof analysis speeds up the design of slabs, stairs, joists and rafters. Thanks to Tedds’ extensive, easy to inspect, quality assured library of multi-material code compliant calculations, time-consuming calculations and spreadsheets for floors and roofs are a thing of the past, and effortless floor and roof analysis the future.

Discover the up-to-date library of transparent structural design calculations.

Highlights of Tekla Tedds 2025:

American code updates

Tekla Tedds now supports the latest code updates to “ASCE 7-22 : Minimum Design Loads and Associated Criteria for Buildings and Other Structures” and “AISC 360-22 : Specification for Structural Steel Buildings”.

New temporary works calculation

Tekla Tedds introduces new temporary works calculations for Outrigger loading design (EN 997/TWf) and Crane wind loading assessment (BS ISO 4302).

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Tekla Structural Designer

Analyse and design buildings efficiently

Tekla Structural Designer is revolutionary building analysis software that gives engineers the power to analyze and design buildings efficiently and profitably.

3D Building design software that is fully automated and packed with many unique features for optimized concrete and steel design, it helps engineering businesses to win more work and maximize profits, from the quick comparison of alternative design schemes to cost-effective change management and seamless BIM collaboration making it the best structural analysis and design tool.

ONE PRODUCT, ONE INTERFACE, ONE MODEL

From scheme design all the way through to detailed design, one single model will cover all your structural analysis and design requirements, encompassing both gravity and lateral systems.

With Tekla Structural Designer there are no additional modules to buy and you will not waste time switching between multiple software packages to achieve your final design solution.

A REVOLUTIONARY APPROACH

Unlike traditional analysis software, you can create physical, information-rich models that contain all the intelligence needed to fully automate the design and manage project changes. Achieve faster design times and maximize profitability with this structural design tool.

SEAMLESS BIM INTEGRATION

Because you are creating a single model with a single data set, BIM integration is smooth and effective. Collaborate seamlessly, instantly assess the impact of changes, and deliver a more optimized solution to your client.

Achieve faster design times

Establish the best solution quickly

Manage changes easily

Maximize profitability and efficiency

Key Features:

Automated wind loading

We understand how painful it can be to apply loading so we have made it easier for you. Full building wind loads are automatically calculated and applied to your model, saving your time on this long winded and complex task. And there is no need to worry about all the other lateral loading required by the design code because it takes care of these for you.

Unique analysis

Automatically generates an underlying and highly sophisticated analytical model from the physical model, allowing you to concentrate on the design. Regardless of the model’s size or complexity, the software’s powerful analytical engine and many unique features will save you time by accurately predicting the building’s design forces and overall performance.

Finite Elements

The software incorporates a highly powerful Finite Element (FE) engine. Whether you are considering an irregular concrete flat plate with openings, or a complex core wall system, you can take advantage of fully automated FE meshing tools and lightning fast analysis to explore their behavior.

Total transparency

Reviewing analysis data is very important. Despite being fully automated, the software offers completely transparent analysis results so you can investigate the design forces, explore deflections and view all the calculations, giving you complete confidence in the design results.

Fully automated

Optimize multi-material buildings, in steel or reinforced concrete, in a fraction of the time. Including all the critical information needed to provide a fully automated design to your chosen building code. Regardless of complexity, you can design all members and consider the overall 3D building design in one seamless process.

Tekla’s unique approach to combining analysis and design means that you will not need to spend time processing analysis data. This integrated approach also enables you to manage changes effectively and provide fast response times to your clients.

Efficient reinforced concrete design

The software will instantly achieve an optimized design for all rebar within the beams, columns, slabs, flat plates and walls. Once designed, detailed reinforcement drawings and accurate material quantities are automatically generated for the whole building, meaning you can provide cost options early in the design process.

Optimized steel design

This software will design all the steelwork automatically, based on the engineer’s specific requirements. This includes the detailed design and optimization of composite beams, columns, US joists, trusses, braces and plated sections. Maximize your efficiency and achieve the optimum design at the touch of a button.

Compare design schemes

It takes just a few minutes to create a range of alternative schemes and establish the most cost effective solution for your client. You can become more competitive and bid more effectively with minimal effort.

Professional output

It is easy to communicate your design because it automatically produces accurate and detailed documentation including calculation reports, material take offs and drawings. Reinforcement drawings for the entire building or tonnages of steel for estimating, all available in a touch of a button.

Real-time information

Because the single model contains all the design information, you can generate documentation and make informed decisions at any stage of the project, starting at very early scheme design. The calculation reports are linked directly to the model, so they update automatically. This means you can manage changes instantly, removing the need to generate new reports manually when variations occur.

Range of export options

Whether you wish to provide beam reactions or bracing forces to the contractor or prepare calculation reports for submission, enabling you to export data to a wide range of file formats. Increase communication and reduce the risk of errors.

Designed with BIM in mind

Tekla Structural Designer has been developed specifically to help the design engineer maximize collaboration with other project parties, including technicians, fabricators and architects. Its unique functionality enables you to integrate the physical design model seamlessly with Tekla Structures or Autodesk® Revit®, and to round-trip without compromising vital design data.

Intelligent synchronization

For total flexibility and to save valuable design and drafting time, the model can start life in Tekla Structural Designer, or alternatively in Tekla Structures or Autodesk Revit.

You can synchronize models multiple times with confidence, throughout the project lifecycle. Tekla Structural Designer provides powerful and unique auditing tools to highlight exactly what has been added, changed or deleted during integration. This reduces the risk of errors and ensures you are kept fully informed during the integration process.

Tekla Structural Designer 2025 introduces better connected workflows, expanded design capabilities and improved design collaboration, while continuing to provide efficient and effective design solutions for our customers.

Highlights of Tekla Structural Designer 2025:

New workflow for creating analytical models from Tekla Structures

This new workflow exports the main structural members – beams, columns, and braces. The analytical model is automatically created and connected, ready for analysis by the engineer.

Enhanced design to detail workflows

Transferring relevant construction and fabrication information as user defined attributes (UDAs) from Tekla Structural Designer to Tekla Structures improves the communication between the engineer and the detailer.

Tekla Structural Designer Integrator for Autodesk Revit 2025

Integration with Autodesk Revit has been enhanced, allowing for a smooth bidirectional transition of models between Revit and Tekla Structural Designer. This now produces a better connected model to be used for analysis and design.

Sustainable Design: Tekla Structural Designer, Enhanced with Structural PANDA Integration

Structural PANDA is a separate carbon reduction tool that can be used by UK-based engineers during the preliminary design stage. Structural PANDA generates a full range of possible low carbon design solutions that can be imported directly into Tekla Structural Designer.

Enhancements in connection design using IDEA StatiCa

Expanding on the extensive connection design workflows between Tekla Structural Designer and IDEA StatiCa CONNECTION software now includes K-brace and A-brace arrangements.

Improved design solution for podium structures

The design solution for podium structures in North America that utilize masonry has been further enhanced with improvements to the handling of reinforcement using a unique patch approach and the ability to model wall edge releases.

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Tekla Structures

The most advanced BIM software for structural workflow

Part of BuildingPoint’s suite of BIM software, Tekla Structures lets you create, combine, manage and share multi-material 3D models packed with valuable construction information. Use this 3D structural modelling software throughout the project, from conceptual planning to fabrication, construction and maintenance, for design, detailing, and information management.

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INFORMATION-RICH 3D MODELS

Tekla Structures lets you create accurate, information-rich 3D models that have all the structural data you need to build and maintain any type of structure. Tekla models can deliver LOD 500 – the highest level of development possible – making them truly constructible.

Import, export, and link your data with other software solutions, digital construction tools, and fabrication machinery for smoother workflows. Also, the as-built models cut back on costly surprises and requests for information (RFIs), making projects more profitable.

Tekla Structures is localized to fit your local construction industry standards. This 3D BIM software for construction is available in 17 languages and has 32 environments that include predefined region-specific settings and information. To make sure you will have a smooth start, we offer local support and training too.

KEY BENEFITS

Constructibility

Create constructible models up to LOD 500
Use a single tool for all types of materials and projects

Open collaboration

Easily collaborate with project members and third parties
Utilize model data for fabrication and construction
Link with architectural, MEP and plant design software through IFC

Localized software

Available in 17 languages and 32 environments
Local support in more than 20 languages
24/7 online technical and learning support

Easy to get started

We have a variety of different licensing options to choose from. Whether you need Tekla Structures for business, education or partnership purposes, we have a license that suits your needs.

Tekla Structures BIM Software is Ideal for:

The Tekla Structures 2025 focuses on intelligent automation for reliable on-time delivery and efficient cross-product workflows, supporting your preferred ways of working with project teams – to deliver with confidence.

Highlights of Tekla Structures 2025:

Better fabrication drawings out of the box

The cloning functionality has been improved to produce better automatic results for you and keep your fabrication drawings more stable during project updates. When creating the fabrication drawings using SmartCreate, you will get better suggestions based on your previous drawings or attribute files. Now single part drawings are also supported.

New AI-enabled Cloud Fabrication Drawing service (Preview)

Tekla Structures 2025 introduces a preview version of a next-generation way of creating your fabrication drawings. Cloning from thousands of drawings from your company’s best projects stored in the cloud for easy access saves you time and effort creating drawings. AI helps you create your cloud collections and picks the best-matching template to clone a new drawing from. (Released as a Preview feature)

Enhanced Numbering

To keep you up to date on your project changes, we provide you with better control and transparency over numbering and its changes. Benefit from the new Numbering Preview to ensure the desired results.

To simplify communication for assembly on the factory floor and on site, the new rebar numbering allows you to control numbers to start from 1 within each cast unit or pour.

Integrated Tekla PowerFab Connector for steel fabricators and detailers

Unlock seamless integration and enhanced productivity when working with a fabricator that uses Trimble’s Tekla PowerFab software. The new Tekla PowerFab Connector in Tekla Structures lets you link projects to fabricators, validate modeling work against fabricator material catalogs, manage changes, and provide flawless submittals to each project phase starting from a preliminary list for advance material purchasing. This integrated system ensures that detailers can model according to the availability of materials and receive direct feedback on submittals from fabricators.

New STEP and IGES export for miscellaneous steel fabrication

Supporting fabrication interoperability, exports for STEP and IGES file formats have been added for tubular handrail production. These exports, available in Tekla Structures directly, use precise curved geometry to automate manufacturing when the DSTV-NC or IFC formats are not supported.

Enhanced design to detail and engineering workflows

Through an enhanced connected workflow between Tekla Structures and Tekla Structural Designer, BIM modelers can efficiently share models for the analysis of steel structures with structural engineers before detailing. This new approach enables the use of the BIM model by engineers, saving time and reducing errors caused by building a separate model. Other key improvements include improved user defined attribute mapping. The critical data for fire design can be transferred between Tekla Structural Designer and Tekla Structures as UDAs, and connection forces can now be imported into Tekla Structures by design case and visualized for better-optimized connection design.

More efficient collaborative model-based workflows with stakeholders

Renewed and integrated Status Sharing enhances project management, streamlining workflows for detailers, engineers, fabricators, and site teams. Also use the .tekla file (as you were using ifc), with the ability to define the property sets to be included in the model upload to Trimble Connect. Live Collaboration (Preview feature) offers a new model-based review to solve questions fast. Use it to coordinate work within your team in real time – in a live session.

Enhanced communication between field and office

Tekla Structures 2025 supports streaming of point cloud data using Trimble Reality Capture Service freeing up disk space and keeping Model Sharing project participants up to date. Other improvements include better performance for point clouds in the model and the new clip box that allows quick isolation of specific portions of the surveyed data for precise modeling.
The renewed Layout Manager further enhances communication between field and office to communicate designs or to compare your design to as-built conditions. Transfer data to and from Trimble Connect effortlessly for Trimble FieldLink to automatically use up to date files.

Improved security for Tekla Model Sharing

The new features in Tekla Model Sharing include enhanced security with malware scanning for uploaded files, improved access control through a new Model Sharing Admin Role in Tekla Online Admin Tool, and increased administrative efficiency by allowing administrators to manage multiple organizations within the Model Sharing Management Console.

Improvements in rebar sets for concrete detailing

Rebar sets now support a greater range of use cases like polybeams and sloping slabs, allowing you to continue to detail rebar with a higher precision even in busy, detailed models.

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