tekla structures 21.0

Tekla Structures 21.0

Arvydas Kublickas

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INTEROPERABILITY

Intergraph Smart™ 3D• For transferring model data between Intergraph's

Smart™ 3D and Tekla Structures

• Improved in latest versions

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Aveva PDMS interoperability• Improved workflow with Aveva PDMS

• New bi-directional link introduces higher level of details and

better management of information transfer

– Bi-directional link based on IFC for transferring and

converting to native parts

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Revit Interoperability• Work efficiently with the Design Team using Revit

• For collaborating and clash checking

– Use standard Autodesk approved IFC files

• For reusing accurate Tekla geometry in Revit for Drawings

– Tekla: Export to Revit for Drawings (Warehouse)

– Revit: Import from Tekla Add-In (Tekla.com)

– Improved export/import speed, general reliability and

fixed member rotation errors

– See more on teklastructures.support.tekla.com

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IFC Change Management

• For detecting, managing and reacting

to changes in IFC models

• Aids Engineers and Detailers to

manage changes in

– Aveva PDMS interoperability

– Design teams involving Architects

and MEP designers

– Engineer – Detailer workflow

– Internal change management

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IFC Change Management• Updated user interface

– Update Native Parts button

• Control over what properties are

update

• Feedback over success

– New columns Native Part and Native

Value

• Better default settings

for detecting changes

• Better support for

updating plates and slabs

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BIM Publisher

• Automates your model and drawing exports

• BIM publisher take cares of exporting DGN, DWG, IFC

models and DWG drawings form multiple models in one

go

• Can be scheduled to run during nights

• Now also supports

– Export to PDMS

– Export to Revit

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Improved IFC export

• Faster and more robust IFC export

• Strengthens Tekla’s Open BIM approach and speeds up

interoperability

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Improved IFC export• Improved export of

– counter plates with chamfers

– poly-beams

• Dramatically improved IFC export time

• New options

– export IFC with minimum properties

– export flat and wide beams as plates

– Option to export using current view colors

• Export showing status by color!

– to set accuracy for poperties

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SketchUp Export & Import

• Import now supports SketchUp version 2015

• Provide additional business benefit by being able to

communicate your design intentions to those outside of the

design team in sketch form

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Tekla SketchUp Pro Render plug-in

Miscellaneous

• Improved IFC Object Converter

– Works better for objects with chamfers, e.g. contour plates

• Reference model DWG import

– DWG reference model import now supports ACAD2014

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MODELING

Direct Modification

• Easy and intuitive

way to insert custom

parts

– Preview when

placing and

moving

– Immediate

editing of position

• Easy editing of

position

– Move and rotate

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Direct Modification• Construction Geometry

– Points, Lines, Circles and Planes

• Construction circles

– Now true circles providing accurate snapping

– Continuous solid line is easier to snap to

– Improved performance for large diameter

circles

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Check radius

Re-size

Offset

Move end pointsOld: Straight segments

Dashed line

New: True curve

Solid line

Clip Planes

• Snap to edges on clip planes

– Own special grey snap

symbol

• Model to intersections of

parts and skewed planes

– Great for skewed and

sloped stiffener and

gusset modeling

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Split Poly-beams

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• Split command now

supports poly-beams

– Start the

command

– Pick the poly-

beam

– Picked the point

– Command stays

active for

repeated use

New Copy Command• Copy all content to another assembly or cast unit

– Edit > Copy Special > All Content to Another Object

– No need to select each object to copy

– Copies all of these from one assembly to another

• Secondary parts

• Reinforcement, bolts,

and welds

• Cuts, fittings, and

edge chamfers

• Sub-assemblies

• Components

– Quick and easy way to

reliably move detailing to another identical assembly

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New reference models management

• More efficient management

of reference models

• Total new user interface

introduced

– New side pane list

– Group reference models

– Control visibility

– Layer control

– Change detection

– Works with Organizer

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Organizer & Object Browser

• Improvements in reporting

– Show assembly content

– Combine identical rows

• Better controls for automation

– Organizer specific filters

– Filter model content:

• Choose to include or

exclude

the native model

• Choose reference models to

include or exclude

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STEEL MODELING

Numbering

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• Welds in assemblies

– Option to check welds when

numbering assemblies

– Number of welds must be

the same

– Weld properties must match

• Size, type, reference text,

UDAs, primary and

secondary parts, etc.

• Polygon weld geometry

must match to within

1.0mm

Numbering

• Stud Pop-marks– Stud pop-marks are now

taken into account in part numbering

• Improved information in the numbering log– amount of objects

checked

– time taken for numbering steps

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Numbering 748 parts.Part numbering done in 2sNumbering 0 reinforcing barsReinforcing bar numbering done in 0sNumbering 340 assemblies or assembly familiesAssembly numbering done in 1sNumbering 340 assemblies or assembly familiesFamily numbering done in 0s

Numbering 748 parts.Part numbering done in 2sNumbering 0 reinforcing barsReinforcing bar numbering done in 0sNumbering 340 assemblies or assembly familiesAssembly numbering done in 1sNumbering 340 assemblies or assembly familiesFamily numbering done in 0s

Numbering

• Ignore part rotation for named assemblies

– Anchor rods and other assemblies can now get same marks regardless of rotation

– XS_EXCLUDED_PARTS_IN_ORIENTATIONAL_NUMBERING

– List part names to ignore when checking orientation

– Wild card use supported

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Miscellaneous

• Weld command shows main part

– Weld main part briefly shown red

– Weld secondary part briefly shown yellow

– Immediate feedback that weld was created as planned

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Plates from built-up sections• Improved

– Support for poly-beams, including arch chamfers

• New options:

– Numbering settings

– Mapping part and assembly mark

– Individual plate settings (web vs flange)

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Explode and combine poly-beams

• Explode a poly-beam into beams

– Properties are mapped to the

beams

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Explode and combine poly-beams

• Combine beams into a poly-beam

– Poly-beam gets the properties from

the first picked beam

• Options

– Intersection and nearest point

options

– Remove consecutive collinear points

– Chamfer options

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Complex Poly-beam Creation

• Create complex curved poly-beam

shapes

– helicoidal

– elliptical

– Aids in the layout of complex

geometry such as stadium seats,

architectural steel, stair cases etc.

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Surface Generation• Creates a surface between two poly-beams

– Helps to create complex plates:

• stringer plate for spiral staircases

• Girder webs and flanges for bridges

– Simplifies input of points to define geometry

– Easy editing by using direct modification to

change the input beams

• Notes

– Internally uses component 19

– Can be unfolded by plate tools

if using the ‘add part’ option

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Complex modeling

• Combine Complex Poly-beam and Surface Generation, Array

Tools, and Unfold Bent Plates to layout complex geometries

• Create 3D plate beams that won’t roll

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Plate Work Tools

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• Unfolded Bent Plate creates an unfolded version from a bent

plate that has been created using attach parts

– Maps the detailing

– Unfolds any bent plate created attach part

– Pick position to place the unfolded plate

– Only supports sharp bends

– Unfold at center line or common

edge

– Creates

drawings

Squaring Cuts

• Create the minimum perpendicular cut

for beveled holes and cuts in plates

– Input is a part or a part cut

– For plate burners which do not

support beveling

– Easier fabrication and fitting

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Squaring Cuts• Supports any cut profile shape

• Unfolded plates modeled so they are cut

straight

• Supports hole tolerance/offset

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Circular Platform

• Create a curved platform

– Includes decking

– Perfect for platforms on storage tanks, silos, etc.

– Options to control railings

– Create full 360° platforms

– Option to create a radial grid

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No Paint Area Between Parts

• Creates a no paint area between

overlapping surfaces

– Compliment to the No paint area

extension which works with bolted

parts

– Overlapping parts do not need to

be bolted or welded

– Automatically updates when the

parts are updated

– Easily build-in no paint

functionality

to custom components

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No Paint Area Between Parts

• Create for the whole contact area or clearance from the

contact area

• Define the no-paint surfacing attributes

• Specify the allowable gap

– Create no paints areas even when

parts don’t touch, such as erection

tolerance gaps

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CIP MODELING

Polyline pour break

• Ortho shows 45°/90° angle

• Closed polygons + modify

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• More flexibility in pour break

creation

• Less ”workaround” pour breaks

Pour break adaptivity

• Faster and more reliable pour break functionality

– Pour breaks adapt to changes in geometry

• Less deleting and remodeling existing pour breaks

• Existing pour properties and information is not lost

• Modifying is easier

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+ 1 beam + 2 beam

Pours

• Reliable and more robust pours

– Automation in pour properties

• Automated pour type: pour

object has a reportable type

by default

• Manual edits are adopted

to new pours

– Improved solid handling

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PRECAST MODELING

Foor layout

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• Easier using of universal floor tool

– Creating Floor Layout and changing slab direction

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1. Polygon openings

2. Rectangular openings

3. Break line cut/split

4. Edit polygon input

5. Edit offset

6. Edit part widths and locations

Foor layout

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– Creating floors/roofs inclinations (+“alt“ key)

Foor layout

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– Editing polygon area

Foor layout

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– Panels dividing/dragging (+Alt; +Ctrl)

Foor layout

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– Single slab modification (right click)

Foor layout

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– Creating (polygon, rectangular) openings or breakline

Foor layout

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– Different layers offsets

Hole around part (92)

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• Create multiple holes with one action

Hollow Core Reinforcement Strands

(60)

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• Different strand placing cases for ends

• New option to consider openings

Floor Layout Cast In Place Filler

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• Fill Floor Layout empty narrow stripes with cast in place

concrete

• Concrete fills inside Floor Layout area/boundaries

Mesh Bars and Mesh Bars by Area

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• Intelligent (area) reinforcement with mesh

• Modify Mesh Bars by Area boundaries

with Direct Modification

Edge and Corner Reinforcement (62)

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• U rebars becoms stirrups (lintel beam/column)

Edge and Corner Reinforcement (62)

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• Better behavior for corner reinforcement in recesses, cuts and

openings

Reinforced Concrete Stairs (95)

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• Automatic parametrical component

• Faster more intelligent results (especially later changes)

Beam End Reinforcement (79)

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• Recognise reverse situation

Rectangular Column Reinforcement

(83)

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• Improvement handling of intermediate stirrups

• UI changes

Sandwich Wall Window

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• Possibility to handle continuous slope details by setting angle

or sloping length (before was problem: different settings

needed to be set if e.g. insulation layer thickness was

changed)

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DRAWINGS

Dimension Rules

View Properties

Drawing

Beam

FrontBolts

Parts

TopGrids

Parts

Section Bolts

View Level Control

• A change to a view based approach at drawing creation– The view is now the

primary control for most object properties

– The view is where dimensioning rules are defined

– New view based dimension rules are available

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The old dialogs...

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... and its many sub dialogs

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New Drawing and View Dialogs

• New dialogs for drawing and view properties– Intuitive & easy

navigation of drawing and view properties

– Less screen clutter and reduced ‘depth’ of settings by removing sub-dialogs

– View properties can now be shared across all drawing types

*GA drawings still use the old dialog, but views in GA drawings use the new view dialog

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View Level Control

• Use different settings in views at drawing creation

– Control parts, marks, and other objects separately in top,

front, section, and end views

– Example: Use exact profiles in section and end views only

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View Level Control

• Create multiple views

– Create several top,

front, or end views for

different dimensioning

or marking purposes

– Example: two end

views, one with part

dims, one with bolt

dimensions

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View Level Control

• Automatic dimensioning of new and existing views

– Manually created views now use applied view properties

• Dimensioning rules will be run when the view is created

• Create section and detail views with automatic dimensioning

– Change the automatic dimensioning in an existing view

• Manually created dimensions will be kept

– New model content and changes will be dimensioned by the applied

dimension rules when drawings are updated

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Dimensions created

along with the view

Scale comes from applied

properties

Custom Presentation

• Alternate and modified appearance of drawing objects

– Supports specialized applications and local or customer specific requirements

– Download from the Tekla Warehouse*

– When installed, it enables a new ‘Custom presentation’ tab on the object and view property dialogs

• Objects supporting custom presentations

– Weld & Weld Mark

– Part & Part mark

– Neighbor part & Neighbor part mark

– Grid

– Text & Associative notes

* No custom presentations are included with the installation

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Custom Presentation - Examples

• Weld solid

– Show the weld solid in place of the weld path

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• Laser layout projection

– Drawing all the lines slows down the laser and makes it too

dim to see on the layout table

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• Can be used to create custom weld marks

– Offshore standards

– Inspection marks

– Etc.

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• Show weld seams in all drawings

– Clarify the locations of welds

in drawings

– Snap to weld seams to

dimension the length

of the weld or weld offsets

– Control weld seams and

weld marks independently

Welds in Drawings

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Welds in Drawings

• Welds and weld marks can now be shown in single-part drawings– Show weld seams and marks

in single-part drawings

– Aids in clarifying possible needs for surface preparation

• Weld and weld mark selection switches in drawings– To select welds, use the ‘Select

drawing welds’ switch

– To select weld marks, use the Select drawing marks switch

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Reference in Cast Unit Drawings• Show architecture reference in Cast Unit drawings

• Architectural graphic facade

• Double check MEP and hole reservations

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New dimensioning – shape, hole and

recess • Define shape, hole and recess types

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1.Hole

2.Recess

3.Shape

Improved 2D details on drawings

• Drawing Symbol Manager allows you to save, change manage

2D details used on drawings

• Improves productivity when working with 2D details

• NEW in 21

– Renewed user interface

– Folder structure for 2D details

– Search

– Grouped together

– Also works for inserted DWGs

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New Drawing Printing

• Easy preview and printing of drawings

– Preview drawings before printing

– Built in support for printing to PDF

– Produce PDF, print to printers, or plot to files

– Create a single PDF file

of all drawings

– Set line thicknesses

– Many other advanced

printing options

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Miscellaneous

• See who has locked drawings– New “Locked by” column in drawing list shows the user

who has locked the drawing

• Curved section views– Drag and drop editing of the

view boundary and view plane

– View plane and boundary are now shown in the curved view and the parent view

– All parts inside the curved boundary are shown in the section view

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Thank you

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Arvydas Kublickas

[email protected]

tekla structures 21.0

Engineering