Tekla Constructible Training

Tekla Structures: Steel Modeling Fundamentals

This extensive course includes everything you need to learn about Tekla Structures as a steel detailer. It consists of an introduction and 27 modules that will teach you and your team how to work efficiently in 3D. The course follows a specific workflow that teaches you how to create a model step-by-step, with all structural elements and details.

Customers can choose between online or in-person class training.

Dates:

Open

Investment

Duration:

12 hrs.

Price:

$1,100.00 per person

3+ PEOPLE ONLY $3,000 PER CLASS

Course details:

Day 1: 6 hours

Introduction

  • About this training
  • Why Tekla Structures
  • Setting up Tekla Structures
  • Trimble Identity

Tekla Structures user interface

  • Opening Tekla Structures
  • Opening Model
  • User interface
  • Navigating in the model
  • Clip planes
  • Hiding parts from view
  • Showing only selected parts
  • Rendering modes
  • Measuring
  • Creating screenshots and visualizing the model
  • Help and support

Setting up project specific information

  • Create and setup the project properties
  • Modify existing grid
  • Create views
  • Snap and selection switches

Model Steel Columns and Beams

  • Steel parts in Tekla Structures
  • Use property pane to modify part properties
  • Create steel framing
  • Create floor beams
  • Copy and move beams

Model Rafters and Bracings

  • Create Rafters
  • Create Bracings
  • Move objects
  • Work planes

About System Components

  • Overview about system components
  • Components types
  • Application and components catalog
  • Add components to model
  • AutoDefault

Modeling Base Plate

  • Add pad footings to the steel structure
  • Model base plates
  • Modify default properties for components

Modeling Beam to Beam Web Connection

  • Model beam to beam web connection
  • Measure bolt spacing and edge distance

Modeling Beam to Column Connection

  • Model beam to column connection
  • Inquire assembly using inquire command in ribbon
  • About numbering in Tekla Structures

Modeling two sided connection

  • Model two sided end plate using component 142

Modeling Haunch Connection

  • Model a haunch connection using component 102

Modeling bracing connections

  • Model bracing connections using component 105
  • Model flat bar bracing connections using component 11

Detecting Clashes

  • Clash checking using the “clash check manager” tool
  • Detect clashes of small area in model using the “clash check manager” tool

Day 2: 6 hours

Model view settings

  • View properties
  • Visibility of objects

Fixing Clashes

  • Create a view along with the rafter
  • Use Direct Modification to resolve the clash
  • Connections to resolve the clash

About custom components

  • What is a custom component
  • Custom component types
  • Parametric custom components

Creating custom components

  • Create a custom component using an existing component
  • Create a custom component by combining individual parts

Modifying custom components

  • Parametric component behavior
  • Bind column to as plate
  • Add a thumbnail for a custom component

Importing and exporting custom components

  • Export custom components from your model
  • Import custom components to your model

Adding web stiffeners

  • Add web stiffeners to a beam
  • How to modify the component properties

Cuts, Fittings, Splits and Combine

  • Cuts and Fittings in Tekla Structures
  • Line cut versus Fitting
  • Line cut, Part cut and Polygon cut
  • Combine and Split parts in Tekla Structures

Bolts, Studs and Holes

  • Introduction to Bolts, Studs and Holes in Tekla Structures
  • Create Bolts in Tekla Structures
  • Create Studs and Holes in Tekla Structures

Other Model Objects – Modeling Aids

  • Introduction to Construction Objects
  • Construction Objects – Modeling Aids

Welds in Tekla Structures

  • Introduction to Welds in Tekla Structures
  • Create welds in Tekla Structures

Other Model Objects – Item and Miscellaneous

  • Items in Tekla Structures
  • Create and import items
  • Miscellaneous – Other model objects (Stairs, handrails, ladders, grating)

About numbering in Tekla Structures

  • What numbering is
  • Plan numbering
  • Numbering settings

Numbering models

  • Number the model
  • Check the number result