ekla Structures 2025 focuses on intelligent automation for reliable on-time delivery and efficient cross-product workflows, supporting the work of project teams.

• Better fabrication drawing creation - Use Smart create in fabrication drawings to automatically select the best matching drawing template or drawing settings file for any fabrication drawing type, including single-part drawings. Combined with several usability improvements, this feature now enables you to generate desired drawing content quickly and with minimum input. In addition, the improved drawing automation offers better cloning results and more reliable update of views and dimensions particularly in respect to placing the views and dimensions.
• AI Cloud Fabrication drawings (Preview) - The AI Cloud Fabrication drawings feature is a new, advanced way to create fabrication drawings in Tekla Structures. This feature creates new fabrication drawings based on finalized fabrication drawings from previous projects, which have been uploaded to a cloud collection owned by your organization. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is used when classifying drawings into libraries inside the cloud collection and when looking for the best matching drawing to be used in the drawing creation.
• Numbering preview and other numbering improvements - Better control and transparency over numbering and its changes. With the new numbering preview you can now preview the proposed position numbers before you apply the numbering results to model objects.
• Tekla PowerFab Connector—Connect the fabricator and detailer - The enhanced interoperability between Tekla Structures and Tekla PowerFab fabrication management system enables seamless and easy cooperation between steel detailers and fabricators who are using Tekla PowerFab.
• Export STEP and IGES files - New export for automated steel manufacturing - Export polybeams, and straight, curved, and arc shaped profiles with boolean operators directly and quickly in the STEP (.stp) or IGES (.igs) format with real arc and bend data for automated manufacturing of steel parts, especially handrails.