Tekla Constructible Training

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

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