Tekla Structures 2026 includes these changes related to licensing.
Changes to user management and terminology related to licensing
To prepare for unifying user and license management systems across different Trimble products, there are changes to terminology, and to how users belong to company accounts (previously called organizations) in Tekla Structures 2026.
Changes to terminology
For consistency between different systems, terminology related to users and licensing has been updated in Trimble User Assistance and in the user interfaces of these Tekla online services:
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Tekla Online Admin Tool
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Tekla Warehouse
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Online Profile for Tekla products and services
| Previous term | New term |
|---|---|
| Organization | Account |
| External license user | Member |
The term employee has not changed, but now refers to a role that is assigned to users rather than membership in an account. The account where a user has the employee role is the user’s home account.
Changes to user management
Previously, users were automatically invited as employees unless you invited them as external license users in the Tekla Online Admin Tool. Now, you must select the employee role to invite new users as employees. Users must have the employee role to be able to access the company's content in Tekla Warehouse and to share the models that belong to the company's account in Tekla Model Sharing.
Compatibility with legacy on-premises licensing tools
To use Tekla Structures 2026 with legacy on-premises licensing tools, you must upgrade to the 2025 version of the licensing tools.
Tekla Structures 2026 is not compatible with earlier versions of these legacy on-premises licensing tools:
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Tekla License Server (Tekla License Administration Tool)
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Tekla License Borrow Tool
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Tekla On-Demand License Administration Tool
Change in Tekla Structures Graphite configuration - now creating detailing components
The Tekla Structures Graphite configuration has been changed so that detailing components can now be created in the same way as in the Tekla Structures Diamond configuration. Users in both configurations can now work with components confidently, without the risk of breaking the numbering of parts created by components. Previously, only conceptual components could be created in the Tekla Structures Graphite configuration.
Administrators can control the creation of components in the Tekla
Structures Graphite configuration with the new XS_USE_CONCEPTUAL_COMPONENTS_FOR_GRAPHITE advanced option. We recommend that this advanced option is used by administrators only. The advanced option is system specific and is read from teklastructures.ini. Administrators are recommended to specify the option in the options.ini file in XS_FIRM for all users.
The default value of the advanced option is FALSE, which means that components are created in the same way as in the Tekla
Structures Diamond configuration. If set to TRUE, only conceptual components can be created in the Tekla
Structures Graphite configuration.
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