Tutorials

In the inaugural PowerFab Tuesday Tips and Tricks, we'll focus on two tools in your PowerFab toolbox: Tekla EPM and Trimble Connect.

How to modify jobs via Maintenance after they have been created.

How to modify company standards for each module.

How to add and modify pricing used in Tekla EPM.

How to modify and manage the shapes/grades/sizes in Tekla EPM.

How to add, modify, setup and use the document index.

How to setup address book.

How to setup company information.

Introduction to admin settings and creating user's/permissions.

This video shows you how to attach MTR (heat) documents.

You can now designate internal and external stations and routes for tracking processes outside your own facility. This gives visibility and reporting options on the progress of a project not only in the fabrication shop, but also tracking for external processes like erection. The status of the external stations and routes can be updated via Tekla EPM Go and can be visualized in Trimble Connect. This way the erection crew can update the erection progress from the field using EPM Go, and share these statuses both internally and externally in real time.

You now have greater flexibility to track parts and assemblies through stations and routes on the shop floor with Tekla EPM 2020. Once the tracked parts have been processed, you can choose which station the parts come together at to form an assembly. This allows for greater accuracy in production reporting as you have more flexibility in the way stations and routes can be configured to reflect your specific production settings.

The Tekla EPM Plugin (formerly FabSuite TME) allows for seamless communication between Tekla EPM and Tekla Structures. The Tekla EPM Plugin integrates with Tekla Structures allowing you to: Export the Tekla Structures model into a compressed EPM XML file. This single file contains the Drawings, Revisions, Bill of Materials, User-Defined Attributes, CNC Files, and Drawing Files. Import an EPM XML file into Tekla Structures to update the model with the current status information and colorize the model based on those statuses.

You now have greater flexibility to track parts and assemblies through stations and routes on the shop floor.  Once the tracked parts have been processed, you can choose which station the parts come together to form an assembly.  This allows for greater accuracy in production reporting as you have more flexibility in the way stations and routes can be configured to reflect your specific production settings.

You can now designate production and field stations for improved tracking of processes outside your own facility.  This gives visibility and reporting options on the progress of a project not only in the fabrication shop, but also tracking for external processes like erection.  The status of the external stations and routes can be updated via Tekla EPM Go and be visualized in Trimble Connect.  This way the erection crew can update the erection progress from the field using EPM Go, and share these statuses both internally and externally in real time.

You can now publish information from estimating and production control to Trimble Connect Organizer, giving you a powerful and flexible way to view the data from any device.  In Trimble Connect Organizer you can layer, filter, and colorize data to make visualization that is meaningful to you. In addition, you can share this visualization with other Trimble Connect Business Premium users.

An introduction to features of the Trimble Connect model interface in EPM Go 2020.

Tekla EPM 2019i gives more flexibility in defining the finishes for main and accessory members. The finish can now be set separate on accessory parts than the main member.

You can now import an updated IFC for your estimate. The estimating IFC import will now update existing items based on GUID matching. Estimating IFC import now also presents a field mapping screen to give you the option of mapping IFC property sets, including UDAs, to fields in the estimate. In addition, the weld type mapping from the codes and descriptions used by detailing software to the EPM weld types can now be customized.

This video shows how to import, view and use the imported model in Tekla EPM.