Tekla PowerFab alternatives
Tekla PowerFab alternatives for NZ and Australian businesses
Tekla PowerFab: Quoted privately, via a reseller subscription with user or floating seats and extra yearly PowerFab Go licences.
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What people compare Tekla PowerFab with
Trimble publishes no public price for Tekla PowerFab, which is quoted through resellers as a subscription. You may look for an alternative when seat licences, extra floor licences, implementation and training make the bill hard to match to how your shop works.
Yours to own
Steel Fabrication for Claude Code
The open-source steel fabrication system that is just a database and Claude Code. Built around your business, with your Tekla PowerFab data brought across.
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How to choose a Tekla PowerFab alternative
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What drives the bill
Check whether you pay per user, for floating seats or for extra floor licences. Tekla PowerFab also includes access to all Office modules on a full licence, alongside implementation and training quoted by resellers. Compare that with how many people and modules your shop actually needs.
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Who owns your records?
Find out whether you can keep using your job history if you stop paying for the software. Tekla PowerFab offers free read-only viewing, but adding or changing records needs a paid seat. An alternative built around a database you own gives you a different way to keep your records.
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Does it fit your shop's rules?
Check whether the system can reflect your fields, stations and working practices, including traceability, welder records and weekly progress claims. A system shaped around your own rules may fit better than paying for a broad set of modules, but be clear about what needs to be built for your business.
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What does switching involve?
Ask what can be brought across and what needs entering again. Open-job assembly lists can be exported from Tekla PowerFab and imported, including marks, quantities, weights, profiles, grades, sequences and drawing numbers. Heat lots, welder tickets and completed stations on live jobs need a short one-off entry on paid paths.
The option that fits
Own a version built for your business
Enterprise DNA builds your own version around how your business runs, brings your Tekla PowerFab data across and runs it for you. It uses a database you own, with your records, and lets you work in plain language. There are no per-seat plans. The paid option has one setup fee, then a monthly retainer. If you would rather run it yourself, there is also a free version.
- check Your own database and business records
- check Built around your fields and working practices
- check One setup fee, then a monthly retainer
Make it yours
Design your own Tekla PowerFab replacement
Everything starts from the open-source base. Then it gets your name, the parts you run, your rules and your data from Tekla PowerFab. Try it here, and we build the real one.
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3. Make it fit
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Answered from your own database
Good morning. Here is what needs you today.
We build it from the open-source base, bring your Tekla PowerFab data across and run it for you.
Questions
Tekla PowerFab alternatives, answered
How much does Tekla PowerFab cost? expand_more
Trimble publishes no public price. Tekla PowerFab is a subscription quoted through resellers, with office licences assigned to named users or shared as floating seats. Extra PowerFab Go licences for the floor are bought by the year. Resellers also quote implementation and training.
Can our Tekla PowerFab jobs be moved across? expand_more
Yes. Open-job assembly lists can be exported from Tekla PowerFab and imported, bringing across marks, quantities, weights, profiles, grades, sequences and drawing numbers. A revised list updates existing marks rather than duplicating them. Heat lots, welder tickets and completed stations on live jobs need a short one-off entry on paid paths.
Can an alternative match the way our shop works? expand_more
Enterprise DNA builds each business its own version around how it runs. That can include the fields and working practices you need. The scope is agreed for your business, and the paid option has one setup fee followed by a monthly retainer. There is also a free version you can run yourself.
Will a new system certify our steelwork? expand_more
No. The system can check records against traceability, welder qualification and weld category rules for each construction category, and show the relevant clause. It does not certify anything. Your welding coordinator and engineer still make the decisions, while the system helps show whether the supporting evidence is there.
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30 minutes with Sam. Bring what Tekla PowerFab costs you a year and how you run. We show you what your own version looks like, and if it is a fit, we build it and bring your data across.
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