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Product: Tekla Structures
Vendor: Trimble Solutions (Tekla)
Homepage: https://www.tekla.com/products/tekla-structures
Description of the application: Tekla Structures is the 3D modeling software used by structural engineers, steel detailers and fabricators to design buildings and produce shop drawings. If you work in steel construction, you probably know it. It's in the same family as Advance Steel, Revit and Robot, which you already have in the catalog.
License: Commercial. Licensing is handled at first launch (Trimble Identity / online license or license server), not by the installer, so the same installer works for every customer.
Trimble ships one major version per year and several service packs per version (2026 is already at SP5).
Service pack installers are standalone, full installers: no need to install the base version or previous SPs first, and they upgrade the existing installation in place. This fits a "Latest" update model very well.
Today we have to download and repackage every service pack manually for each engineering workstation. Trimble itself notes that per-workstation installation is time-consuming in larger companies.
Reference: https://support.tekla.com/article/centralized-distribution-of-tekla-structures-2026
Format: InstallShield setup.exe (Basic MSI) wrapping an MSI; can also be extracted to MSI with /a.
Silent install (EXE): TeklaStructures2026.exe /s /v"/qn /lvoicewarmupx TS2026_logfile.log"
Silent install (MSI): msiexec /i "Tekla Structures 2026.msi" /qn - Per-machine install requiring admin rights, so it is compatible with SYSTEM context.
Default path: C:\Program Files\Tekla Structures\
Prerequisites: (.NET Desktop Runtime 8 and 10, WebView2, VC++ redistributables, Tekla Warehouse Service, TSEP File Dispatcher) are installed automatically by setup.exe when missing.
https://download.trimble.com/tekla-structures/for-businesses
Installers are hosted on Trimble Downloads (https://downloads.tekla.com) and require a Trimble Identity sign-in. A "upload your own install file" system like is currently present for Forticlient would have to be used here then, this is the only real "challenge" we saw for this installation to be added (we hope).
