Tekla Constructible Training

Tekla Structures: Advanced - Custom Component

This training course provides experienced Tekla Structures users with the knowledge and the tools needed to progress to the advanced stages of the Tekla Structures program. The training is divided into lessons, each of which focuses on a certain feature of the program related to custom components and provides in-depth instructions geared at helping users master each feature.

Please Note: Depending on what version you have chosen to use and how you have Windows set up, you may see some differences in how the interface appears while going through this training. To download the latest version you can visit the Tekla Download site here: Download Tekla Structures.

Dates:

June 3-4, October 7-8, 2025

Investment

Duration:

8 hrs.

Price:

$1,100.00 per person

3+ PEOPLE ONLY $3,000 PER CLASS

Course details:

Day 1: 4 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: 4 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