Analyse and design buildings efficiently with Tekla Structural Designer

Seamlessly combine the design and analysis into one easy and efficient single model-based process. Deliver safe, effective and rationalised design more quickly, regardless of structural material. Try it for yourself and revolutionise the way you work today!

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Why Tekla Structural Designer?

Tekla Structural Designer enables you to work faster and deliver projects more efficiently, regardless of your construction material.

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Faster design time

Move beyond the limits of traditional engineering software for faster design and increased profits. With Tekla Structural Designer, you can create physical, information-rich models containing all the intelligence needed to fully automate structural analysis and manage project changes.

Easy change management

Calculation reports are linked directly to the model, so they update automatically. This means you can manage changes instantly without having to manually generate new reports when variations occur.

Quick scheme comparison

It takes just a few minutes to create a range of alternative schemes and establish the most cost-effective solution for your client. You'll become more competitive and can bid more effectively with minimal effort.

Code-compliant design

Choose from a broad range of international design codes of practice. Tekla Structural Designer supports Eurocodes, US, Indian and Australian codes, as well as British Standards.

Tekla Structural Designer

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For automated analysis and fast structural design
From concept through to final optimised structural design. Manage changes efficiently and collaborate with the project team.
Includes Tekla Structural Designer, Tekla Portal Frame Designer and Tekla Connection Designer
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Tekla Structural Design Suite

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£2,500 /year_+VAT

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For all your structural analysis and design needs
Includes Tekla Structural Designer, Tekla Tedds, Tekla Portal Frame Designer and Tekla Connection Designer
Includes Trimble Connect Business Premium

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Seamless BIM collaboration, automated analysis and fast structural design

Transform the way you work with Tekla Structural Designer

Designed for BIM

We have developed Tekla Structural Designer specifically to help the design engineer maximise collaboration with all other project parties, including architects, fabricators and contractors. BIM integration offers a smooth and effective way to maintain quality, reduce rework and drive seamless collaboration.

One product, one interface, one model

From scheme design to detailed design, one model will cover all your structural analysis and design requirements, encompassing both gravity and lateral systems. With Tekla Structural Designer there are no additional modules to buy so you won't waste time switching between multiple structural design software packages.

Intelligent synchronisation

Experience total flexibility and save valuable design and drafting time. Your design model can start in Tekla Structural Designer, Tekla Structures or even Autodesk Revit. You can synchronise models multiple times with confidence throughout the project to instantly assess the impact of changes and deliver a highly optimised solution.

Automated wind loading

We understand how painful it can be to apply loading so we have made it easier for you. Full building wind loads are automatically calculated and applied to your model, saving your time on this long-winded and complex task. And there's no need to worry about all the other lateral loading required by the design code.

Unique analysis

Tekla Structural Designer automatically generates an underlying and highly sophisticated analytical model from the physical model, allowing you to concentrate on the design. Regardless of the model’s size or complexity, the software’s powerful analytical engine and many unique features will save you time.

Finite elements

The structural engineering software incorporates a highly powerful Finite Element (FE) engine. Whether you are considering an irregular concrete flat plate with openings, or a complex core wall system, you can take advantage of fully automated FE meshing tools and lightning-fast finite element analysis to explore their behaviour.

Total transparency

Reviewing analysis data is very important. Despite being fully automated, Tekla Structural Designer offers completely transparent analysis results so you can investigate the design forces, explore deflections and view all the calculations, giving you complete confidence in the design results.

Assessment of footfall

Human footfall is a significant source of vibration. Tekla Structural Designer provides a rigorous analytical approach to footfall analysis that easily allows comparison and reporting of different scenarios without needing to remodel the floor.

Rigorous slab deflection

Deflection always needs to be assessed when designing concrete slabs to meet serviceability criteria. Tekla Structural Designer offers a superior solution for this with exceptionally fast analysis capabilities allowing value engineering to be performed.

Fully automated

Optimise multi-material buildings in a fraction of the time. Have all the critical information needed to provide a fully automated design to your chosen building code. Regardless of complexity, you can design all members and consider the overall 3D building design in one seamless process, with a user friendly interface and an intuitive environment.

Efficient reinforced concrete design

The software will instantly achieve an optimised design for all rebar within the beams, columns, slabs, flat plates and walls. Once designed, detailed reinforcement drawings and accurate material quantities are automatically generated for the whole building, meaning you can provide cost options early in the design process.

Optimised steel design

Tekla Structural Designer will design all the steelwork automatically, based on the engineer’s specific requirements. This includes the detailed design and optimisation of composite beams, columns, US joists, trusses, braces and plated sections. Maximise your efficiency and achieve the optimum design at the touch of a button.

Compare design schemes

It takes just a few minutes to create a range of alternative schemes and establish the most cost-effective solution for your client. Assess and compare the embodied carbon of your design options. You can become more competitive and bid more effectively with minimal effort.

Leverage parametric design

The Grasshopper-Tekla Structural Designer live link allows parametric, algorithmic modeling to enable multiple data-driven design solutions to be explored quickly and efficiently. Deliver with confidence and achieve the best solution for the client.

Professional output

It is easy to communicate your design because Tekla Structural Designer automatically produces accurate and detailed documentation including calculation reports, material take-offs and drawings. Reinforcement drawings for the entire building or tonnages of steel for estimating, all available in one click.

Real-time information

Because the single model contains all the design information, you can generate documentation and make informed decisions at any stage of the project, starting at a very early scheme design. The calculation reports are linked directly to the model, so they update automatically.

Range of export options

Whether you wish to provide beam reactions or bracing forces to the contractor or prepare calculation reports for submission, Tekla Structural Designer enables you to export data to a wide range of file formats. Increase communication and reduce the risk of errors.

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Modeling wind forces with Tekla Structural Designer

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Architecturally striking and structurally complex

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A user of Tekla Structural Designer for many years, Clancy Consulting has been reaping the rewards ever since – both in terms of time savings and also the added value it enables them to offer clients.

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Parametric workflows with Tekla Structural Designer

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Specialised analysis considerations for concrete structures

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Slab deflections made easy

Deflections should always be considered in the design of slabs, in order to meet serviceability criteria applicable to concrete floor systems. While there are several ways to determine and calculate slab deflections, Tekla Structural Designer is arguably the most capable structural analysis software available.

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