Tekla – AutoCAD Interoperability Tool
Tekla licenses are pricey. About $30k + maintenance per license. What if I told you that you needed 30-50% less licenses than you currently hold. That’s a huge cost saving, isn’t it?
If you only need 5 licenses (as opposed to 10), then you’ve saved $150k instantly, plus maintenance.
AutoCAD licenses are significantly cheaper.
But if only the work you did in AutoCAD could be transferred into Tekla? That would save you some licenses. That’s just what I’ve done here in my latest project. Now a significant portion of any modelling job can be done in AutoCAD and simply imported into Tekla.
You can check it out here:
Tekla – Autocad Interop. from Tek1 on Vimeo.
Human Resources Problem
Interoperability will also help improve the quality of your work: it’s tough finding people who are highly skilled in Tekla. What if I told you that you could use an AutoCAD draftsperson instead of someone well versed in Tekla, to do the same job? Now you have a potentially infinite pool of candidates to draw from.
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How to Download Tekla Catalogues (or Catalogs):
You need to download the catalogue because the interop DLL connects to the catalog. Without it, we cannot verify that your profiles actually exist in Tekla.
Here is the cataloge download link:
Trouble Shooting
- Ensure you are using the “Steel Detailing” license.
- Ensure you have AutoCAD 2023, or 2024. Do not use 2025 because this tends not to connect with Tekla.
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