Trimble® has officially announced its 2025 version of Tekla® Structures, which would be the company’s flagship structural building information modeling (BIM) software.

According to certain reports, the mechanism in question brings an ability to enhance productivity and achieve more efficient creation of fabrication drawings. This ability, on its part, translates to new and enhanced features that can help you create, combine, manage, and share information-rich 3D models for real-time, model-based collaboration throughout construction project stages.

Talk about these tools on a slightly deeper level, we begin from Trimble’s all-new AI Cloud Fabrication Drawing Service, which has been introduced as a preview* in Tekla Structures 2025, The stated service, in essence, bestows users with the ability to utilize artificial intelligence during the creation of fabrication drawings.

More on that would reveal how, without causing any disruptions for customers’ usual workflows, the solution is able to provide an optional, alternative approach, which can effectively reduce the need for manual adjustments.

Next up, there is an AI-powered Trimble assistant for Tekla coming into play. Available both within the product as an extension, and as a web app in Tekla User Assistance, this particular assistant is well-equipped to generate accurate and concise answers for users’ questions on Tekla products, including Tekla Structures, Tekla Structural Designer, Tekla Tedds, or Tekla PowerFab®.

This it markedly does by using the Tekla User Assistance knowledge base.

Another detail worth a mention here is rooted in prospect of seamless model-based collaboration with project stakeholders. Leveraging Tekla PowerFab Connector functionality in Tekla Structures, the relevant setup makes a point to submit packages for estimating, purchasing, and fabricating through single-click integration with Tekla PowerFab steel fabrication management software.

Such a mechanism will ensure that material profiles, project statuses, and submittals are fully synchronized in real-time to help detailers receive up-to-date information and direct feedback on submissions from fabricators. The incentive behind doing so stems from cutting down on the need for RFIs and manual updates, as well as helping improve project profitability for the detailing company.

As for the fabricators, the same incentive shakes out to be less production waste and less ad-hoc expensive material purchases.

Then, we have facility dedicated towards live collaboration. This facility makes it possible for users, working in the same model, to choose between Trimble Connect® and Tekla Structures. Thanks to that, project stakeholders can now adopt a model-based review of progress, which marks a leap forward from traditional drawing-based workflows.

Hold on, we still have a few bits left to unpack, considering we haven’t yet touched upon the availability of Trimble’s TrimBIM format, something designed to connect common data environment with the collaboration platform. With that, users can share only what is needed for the task, and at the same time, enrich the shared information with model data.

By facilitating such a connection, the software also enables efficient data flow and collaboration throughout the project lifecycle.

We also haven’t touched upon the Tekla Structures’ field-to-office integration. Basically, the solution’s new version can provide you improved integrations, all for the purpose of helping stakeholders in the office and the field work together more efficiently.

It also boasts Integration with the Trimble Reality Capture platform to let users collaborate in point clouds and 3D models without consuming local hardware resources.

Among other things, users can enjoy significant usability and performance improvements in property panes and drawing properties dialogs within Tekla Structures. Furthermore, they should be able to access enhanced functionality for rebar detailing like Reinforcement Sequence Numbering in a pour or a cast unit.

Not just that, the extended rebar detailing functionality also offers improvements to Rebar Sets to make them more useful, supporting a wider variety 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,” said Oxana Kyllönen, product manager at 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.”