ScaffPlan 2026 Release notes

Super Administrator

Written By Ilya Kornienko

Updated at July 2nd, 2026

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🚀Key Features🚀 ScaffPlan 2025 Compatibility:

 🚀Key Features🚀

💥Frame and Brace Plugin with Engineering Support - design Frame and Brace scaffold with guided setup, direct in-model editing, and integrated leg load calculations.

💥 Variable-Length Multi-Bay Placement  - create complex bay runs faster by changing bay lengths on the fly in one continuous workflow.

💥 Imperial Units Support  - work consistently in imperial units across ScaffPlan tools.

 

ScaffPlan 2025 Compatibility:

✅ Compatible Tekla Structures 2026 Service Pack 3.1 

✅ Start Fresh with ScaffPlan 2026
Complete all ongoing projects in current version of Tekla Structures and ScaffPlan. Use Tekla Structures 2026 Service Pack 3.1 and ScaffPlan 2026 only for new projects to prevent compatibility issues.
We recommend keeping current version(s) installed alongside 2026. This allows to finish existing work without disruption while starting new jobs in the updated version.

🚧ScaffPlan Compatibility:
Models created in earlier versions of ScaffPlan cannot be opened in ScaffPlan 2026.

↩️ Tekla Structures Compatibility:
Models from Tekla Structures 2020–2025 that are opened and saved in Tekla Structures 2026 are not backwards compatible. Once saved, they cannot be opened in older versions.

 

List of ScaffPlan Improvements:

Type

Feature

Release Notes
New tool

Frame and Brace

ScaffPlan for Tekla now makes Frame and Brace scaffold design faster and easier with a dedicated plugin with familiar bay-style workflow built for Brand Frames, Waco Frames.

Leg load engineering calculation is also supported.

Bay tool

Variable-Length Multi-Bay Placement

 The Scaffold Bay Tool in ScaffPlan for Tekla now supports Variable-Length Multi-Bay Placement, making complex scaffold runs faster and easier to model.
Multiple bays can now be inserted in one continuous workflow, while each section of the run can use a different bay length. There is no need to stop the command placing bay lines which differ by bay lenght.
Simply select the starting point, place each segment, and change the bay length from the contextual toolbar whenever the layout requires a different size. The active preview updates as the bay line is extended, providing greater speed, flexibility, and control when modelling scaffold arrangements.

Environment

Imperial Units Support

Improved support for Imperial units across the application.
Dimensions such as length, width, height, and other measurement-based values now consistently follow the active unit settings set in the Project Properties tab.

This update ensures that imperial unit formats are respected wherever values are displayed or entered. Dialogs and tools now read from the active unit profile, providing a more consistent experience across the application.

Tune and Clip

 

Tube Centering Feature

 

 

The Tube and Clip tool in ScaffPlan for Tekla now includes a new Center Tube quick action.
A new one-click button has been added to the Tube and Clip contextual toolbar, allowing users to quickly centre a tube between two couplers.
ScaffPlan automatically recalculates the Start and End offsets so the tube is centred, without changing the tube length.

Bay tool

2.5 m Bracings for Kwikstage 

 

 Based on user feedback the Bay tool now supports a 2.5 m bracing configuration for Kwikstage.
ScaffPlan will automatically use 2.5 m braces during bay creation.
This gives users more flexibility when modelling scaffold layouts that require 2.5 m bracing alignment.

Drawings

Part Marks

 

 Following user feedback Part marks now display cleaner names for Components and Custom Items.
The automatic “(custom)” suffix and scaffold system prefix (eg. "U-Layher-") have been removed from ScaffPlan.Profile, so drawings now show only the item name.
When a system prefix is still required, it can be added explicitly using ScaffPlan.System template variable.
This makes Tekla drawings cleaner, easier to read.

Catalogue

Extra components

This release includes added scaffold components and catalogue updates across multiple systems:

  •  At-Pac US, AU and EU now includes the new MPBS – Multi-Purpose Beam System item family, available in both medium and high-detail shapes. Corner fillers and angular ledgers have also been added in medium and high-detail versions.
  • Additional At-Pac updates include a Jack Retainer, added under Miscellaneous Items as an Uplift Preventer, and the Guardrail Standard “Crazy Leg” component.
  • U-Layher has been updated with a new U-Ledger LW T14 1.40 m transom item, including code 2618139 and weight 5.40 kg.
  • Proscaf now includes a SafeSmart scaffolding component pack and updated component codes.
  • The Common catalogue has also been expanded with a ScaffCover group, available in medium and high-detail item versions.

*For detailed information on enhancements introduced in Tekla 2025, please refer to the official Tekla Structures 2025 Release Notes.