Watch Your Tekla Model Build Itself - Free Timelapse Tool

Timelapse for Tekla Structures - watch your building assemble itself 🏗️ Timelapse plays your Tekla model's erection sequence step by step, right inside Tekla, and exports it as a shareable GIF or MP4 - perfect for client meetings, progress updates, tenders, and LinkedIn. In this video I walk through how it works from load to export. It's 100% read-only: Timelapse only ever changes temporary view colours and draws temporary ghost graphics. It never edits, moves, or saves anything in your model — close the window and everything returns to normal. And it runs entirely on your own machine; nothing is uploaded anywhere. What you can do with it: ✅ Sequence your model by Phase, bottom-level elevation, or a custom UDA ✅ Scrub through the build live and reveal each step whole or bay by bay ✅ Explode an assembly or cast unit into its individual parts — bolts and secondaries fanning out, or rebars pulling from the concrete ✅ Orbit the camera for a cinematic turntable, or hand-frame your own shot ✅ Add your project title, company logo, and title/end cards ✅ Export as GIF, H.264 MP4, or raw PNG frames — even in reverse for a demolition clip