SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 12, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Trimble
(NASDAQ: TRMB) today introduced Tekla® Structures 21, the
latest version of its Building Information Modeling (BIM) software
for the engineering and construction markets. With advancements in
interoperability, drawing control, usability and performance, Tekla
Structures 21 improves industrial and commercial construction
project workflows across construction disciplines. The new version
delivers benefits to structural steel and precast concrete
designers, detailers and fabricators, concrete contractors and
general contractors, and enhanced collaboration with Mechanical,
Electrical and Plumbing (MEP) design engineers, architects and
others.
"After a decade in use, Tekla Structures continues to further
the evolution of BIM from an experimental to an essential part of
designing, engineering and building all types of buildings and
structures," said Risto Raty,
executive vice president of Tekla and general manager of Trimble
Buildings' Structures Division. "Tekla Structures 21 reduces the
time between concept and construction by enabling more advanced
project team collaboration and productivity—enabling free flowing
communication between all project stakeholders for more efficient
design and building processes."
Enhanced Collaboration and Workflow
Tekla Structures 21 is fully interoperable with popular
industrial plant design software such as AVEVA PDMS and Intergraph
Smart 3D. This high level of bi-directional integration speeds up
and improves the transfer of model data by providing a higher level
of detail, better information transfer and change management.
Improved integration between Tekla Structures and Autodesk's Revit
Architecture and Revit MEP allows for better collaboration,
enhanced control and change management through Industry Foundation
Classes (IFC) file exchanges. Tekla's automated model and drawing
export function saves time and makes downstream workflows smoother.
In addition, Tekla Structures improves import and export functions
with Trimble® SketchUp.
Reference model handling is also improved, making collaboration
over changes much easier and providing better control over change
management with IFC files. Tekla's IFC change management allows for
the effective detection, management and reaction to changes in IFC
models, and allows reference models to be added to a list and
grouped.
Raty added, "By providing tight integration with other popular
BIM software—as well as our own analysis and design software Tekla
Structural Designer—and incorporating deep support for IFC, Tekla
Structures 21 allows project team members from all disciplines to
work together to address potential problems during the modeling
stage, when they can be inexpensively and expediently addressed.
These process improvements pave the way for successful projects
where everyone wins."
The platform-neutral IFC file format is a key component of Open
BIM, a broad-based approach to the collaborative design,
construction and operation of buildings based on open standards and
workflows.
As a "Trimble Connected" product, Tekla Structures 21 leverages
the Trimble Connect collaboration environment for design,
engineering and construction projects. Based on Gehry Technologies'
renowned GTeam™ software acquired by Trimble in in 2014,
Trimble Connect enables teams to access and manage project data via
a cloud platform.
Tekla Structures 21 offers several other improvements and
resources:
- Drawing control: provides greater
control over the drawings. It simplifies the processes of
navigating, printing and viewing the properties of drawings. Users
also can now give customized company-specific dimensions to their
own standard parts, such as bolts and embeds. Tekla's view level
control of dimensioning automates working with assemblies like
handrails and cast units.
- User-friendly modeling: improved
direct modification makes modeling more intuitive and simple with
"what you see is what you get" modifications. Drawing construction
lines, circles and points and placing custom parts is
straightforward, and editing the position is easy and
immediate.
Two new services have also been introduced concurrent with Tekla
Structures 21:
- Tekla Model Sharing: a service
allowing project team members to work on the same project from any
location or time zone, for faster and more flexible project
delivery.
- Tekla Warehouse: a free online library
of Tekla Structures modeling tools, intelligent parts and templates
to help users achieve more efficient workflows and higher quality
projects.
Availability
Tekla Structures 21 is available now. For more information and
to download Tekla Structures 21, visit:
www.teklastructures.com.
About Tekla
Tekla's Building & Construction business is part of Trimble
Buildings, which is focused on technology solutions that improve
collaboration, efficiency and accuracy across the
Design-Build-Operate (DBO) lifecycle of buildings. Tekla
drives the evolution of digital information models to provide
greater competitive advantage to the construction, infrastructure
and energy industries. Tekla has customers in over 100 countries,
offices in over 20 countries and a global partner network.
Information on Tekla solutions can be found at:
www.tekla.com. Details about Trimble Buildings' complete DBO
portfolio are available at:
http://buildings.trimble.com.
About Trimble
Trimble applies technology to make field and mobile workers in
businesses and government significantly more productive. Solutions
are focused on applications requiring position or
location—including surveying, construction, agriculture, fleet and
asset management, public safety and mapping. In addition to
utilizing positioning technologies, such as GPS, lasers and optics,
Trimble solutions may include software content specific to the
needs of the user. Wireless technologies are utilized to deliver
the solution to the user and to ensure a tight coupling of the
field and the back office. Founded in 1978, Trimble is
headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif.
For more information, visit: www.trimble.com.
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