The Trimble RTS family is recognized as the de facto choice for contractors who demand accuracy, reliability, and ease of use. Today, this powerful portfolio gains even more capability.

With the release of the Trimble RTS573, you now have a fully featured robotic total station that has been optimized for use in traditional construction layout applications, while also including a powerful new Electronic Distance Measurement (EDM) capability that extends the Direct Reflex range out to an amazing 1,300 meters (4,300 feet). This means that you can easily point and measure to backsights and features requiring a much longer baseline.

The RTS573 is the perfect option for structural and subcontractor trades that work in direct sunlight or on the top of the structure, where laser pointers are rendered unnecessary.

To see the Trimble RTS573 in action, click the link below, or reach out to your BuildingPoint representative today.

The Trimble RTS573 is the perfect option for structural and subcontractor trades that work in direct sunlight or on the top of the structure, where laser pointers are rendered unnecessary. Plus, the RTS573 features powerful new Electronic Distance Measurement (EDM) capability that extends the Direct Reflex range out to an amazing 4300 feet!

To learn more about the all new Trimble RTS573, or schedule a demo, click the link below, or contact your local BuildingPoint representative.

Trimble’s powerful visual layout is a powerful capability in your toolkit. With visual layout, you can easily and precisely lay out points on your work surface. There’s a number of options and items to consider when choosing a visual layout solution, and with Trimble, there’s a laser pointer that perfectly fits into your budget and workflow. Let’s take a closer look at each of these offerings, and the unique attributes.

RPT600
The Rapid Positioning Tool represents a huge step forward in bringing a comprehensive visual layout solution to your equipment fleet. Featuring a easily visible green laser, the RPT600 brings visual layout to your project at a significantly lower cost than traditional robotic total stations, while also featuring a green beam that works in the majority of applications where a deck or cover is overhead.

RTS655/RTS773
Both the Trimble RTS655 and RTS773 feature a traditional red beam laser. This laser, while less visible than a green beam laser, still creates a nice concentric and hot spot under interior and medium lighting conditions. The advantage of both of these total stations is they also offer a traditional optical telescope. This gives users the ability to implement a more conventional layout workflow using rods and prisms, as opposed to specifically relying on Trimble Vision and laser layout.

RTS873
As the building construction flagship, the Trimble RTS873 brings the ultimate visibility and clarity to the visual layout workflow. Because the 873 does not contain a traditional optical telescope, the ultra high visibility green beam laser is also auto focusing. This reduces beam splat, and also ensures visibility even in brighter ambient light conditions.

With any visual layout, it’s important to remember that setup is immensely important. Setting the instrument as high as possible (with a column clamp if practical) reduces beam splat and creates a larger angle to the surface, creating a hotter center point that increases the accuracy of the resulting layout point. And while this is true across all of the Trimble solutions offered, as you can see, there’s still a unique point delivered by each of these solutions.

To learn more, or to compare your options on your current project, reach out to your BuildingPoint representative today.

You already have the data. Now you just need to create the points. With Trimble Field Points you can quickly an easily export your points from AutoCAD or Revit. This streamlined approach eliminates inherent data prep rework and errors when creating new points files from scratch.

With TFP, you have the ability to leverage the data you already have, whether it resides in 2D CAD work, or 3D models.

To learn more about TFP, and see it work firsthand,  check out this quick overview demo, created by Chris Hawkins, or contact your local BuildingPoint representative.

Sometimes it’s just easier to order online. We understand that. We’re addicted to Amazon Prime too. BuildingPoint and AllTerra are putting the finishing touches on the first online store that caters specifically to Florida contractors and geospatial professionals.

Batteries, pole brackets, carrying cases, and all of the gear that your team needs to be productive in the field. All within a streamlined and simple online store experience. Stay tuned… It’s almost here.

One of the most oft-requested features/products in recent years has been a dedicated backpack for Trimble Robotic Total Stations. Providing a secure, yet comfortable all-in-one carrying solution for your robotic total station AND field tablet, this carrying case is purpose-built for the realities of the job site.

Now you can easily carry your RTS, tablet, spare batteries, and prism in one compact and manageable pack. Additionally, this case also features protection and padding to support the instrument when in transit, as it is engineered to provide comprehensive protection under typical use scenarios.

To order the Trimble RTS Backpack, simply reach out to your BuildingPoint representative today, or simply click the link below.

Flat floors are integral to the construction process. But measuring and calculating floor flatness has historically been a rigorous and challenging exercise. Previous options have varied from manual measurement, to small gridded shots with an optical instrument, to laser scanning the finish floor.

With the latter technique, you can easily capture entire floor plates in a short amount of time, at a high resolution for evaluation back in the trailer or office. With Trimble RealWorks 10.4 you have the ability to bring to register and analyze your data in a simple workflow that is optimized for the constraints of the production environment.

Adding further to this unique analytic capability, RealWorks allows you to use industry standard ASTM reporting criteria to easily understand your actual flatness. This ability delivers a common language that speeds the identification of in tolerance and out of tolerance areas, and highlights them according to your specific requirements.

To learn more, reach you to your BuildingPoint representative, or simply click the link below.

With the advent of Mixed Reality, contractors have been looking at how to use these new technologies to help them on the modern jobsite. In this conversation, BuildingPoint sits down with David Burczyk of Trimble to discuss how they are using the Microsoft Hololens in the Pre-Construction workflow.

Click the link below to learn more about Trimble, Mixed Reality, and the Microsoft Hololens.

Setting up control can be a challenge on any job site. But in Florida, those challenges can be exasperated by limited sight lines, cramped building footprints, and cumbersome site logistics. Having access to consistent control and back sights is a key element to your layout procedures. And ensuring that the entire trade stack has access to co-located points also alleviates many of the challenges and setup busts that can occur on a project.

One such alternative for these scenarios is to look outside of your building footprint. Using small, inexpensive prisms helps to increase your setup accuracy and repeatability. By placing these prisms on numerous stationary structures at the periphery (project light or camera poles, adjacent buildings, etc) you can easily setup a prism network that can easily be utilized throughout your project.

And because the prisms are fixed, you can easily share the points with all of the trades performing work with optical total stations, removing a common source of setup error.

To learn more about these simple passive prisms, or for an on-site consult, simply click the link below, or reach out to your BuildingPoint rep directly.