In this 3 minute video overview, we go over the new enhancements and updates to the latest release of Trimble RealWorks, version 10.3. Highlights of this release include:

• Improved TX8/TX6 image blending and coloring
• Point cloud rendering new modes (Ambient Shading, See Inside, Outline)
• Auto-classification: new indoor classification (floor, walls, ceiling) and outdoor powerline extraction
• Magnifier: a new powerful way to navigate, pick and visually inspect details
• Direct link to AutoCAD®: send point clouds for an intuitive and productive combined workflow

Sometimes, constructing a building is straightforward and self-explanatory. In other cases? Maybe not so much. In these cases, there’s a tremendous advantage to understanding and constructing the components or assemblies virtually prior to moving into production. By stepping through the constructibility with a highly detailed model, field personnel can quickly and easily identify issues before heading out to the field.

In many cases, low-detail is considered more than sufficient for day-to-day structural and envelope tasks and coordination. But the detail and accuracy of some designs and systems requires a greater level of certainty. In these instances, high-detail models can bridge the gap between design and construction. This capability also presents some unique opportunities as project teams can easily bring low and high-detail elements together to exist in one single model environment. This granular approach ensures that low-detail is the baseline, and only higher-detail elements are modeled when necessary.

By leveraging BuildingPoint VDC Services, you can easily scope the challenging or problematic assemblies and components, and produce detailed models and even coordinate shop drawing sets that can help alleviate schedule delays and issues in the field. This customizable approach also ensures that modeling investments are kept to the minimum, while also providing the visibility and answers that can pay immediate and measurable dividends on the project.

To learn more about high-detail component modeling, contact your local BuildingPoint representative, or simply head over to our VDC Service page by clicking the link below.

Trimble has recently released the V3.3 update for Crewsight, its workforce management solution. Trimble CrewSight lets you track personnel while they are on site and account for each team member when emergency situations arise. The system lets you monitor skills, qualifications and clearances to keep on-site workers safe. This new version is packed with new features and enhancements.

The new features in CrewSight V3.3 improve and simplify the workflow for administrators to minimize time spent inputting data or configuring username and login information. Trimble has also responded to industry requests to support the ability to view the employment history of a worker in the system to better understand when and where workers have worked.  Some of the new features and enhancements in this update include:

• Deleting a Worker: This feature provides users with a warning message before deleting a worker(s).
• Support for “and” or “-” in Worker Name: This feature provides users the ability to use “and” or “-” in the Worker name field when enrolling or editing a Worker record.
• CrewSight Login-ID Case: This feature changes the requirement at Login for User Name to allow for non-case sensitive characters. Passwords are still case sensitive.
• Employment history /Asset custody history: This new feature provides users with the ability to view the employment history of a worker or custody history of an asset via Company History option provided in the worker/asset details section of the record.
• Help Page in Web App UI: This feature provides access to the CrewSight

Trimble Connect is an online collaboration environment that allows everyone involved in a construction project to know what’s happening, and what should be done next.  Whether you’re an owner, architect, a general contractor, or a sub contractor, Trimble Connect allows the entire project team to see the big picture, right down to the smaller detail. As part of the ongoing process to improve Trimble Connect, several new enhancements and features have been added, for both the web and desktop versions of Connect.

Trimble Connect On The Web

• Add attachments or hyperlink to a location on the web to any BIM Object in a model.
• Search results show location path (breadcrumbs) for easier navigation
• ToDo items now have a  “Download Attachment” option
• ToDo listing visibility settings: Set ToDo visible only to creator, admin and assignee
• Ability to edit multiple ToDo items at once
• Company Administration: Manage company profile and users

For a complete list up enhancements and bug fixes, click the link below to see the release notes.

Trimble Connect Desktop 1.4 Update

• Point cloud visualization support for .las and .laz formats (Beta)
• Access file and model versions from Desktop
• New fields have been added to a ToDo: Title, Type, Tags and Completion percentage for BCF 2.0 Support
• Model tree and attribute data support for Revit models
• Ability to attach clip plane perpendicular to a line and create vertical clip planes. This is useful for horizontal models like roadways etc.

For a complete list up enhancements and bug fixes, click the link below to see the release notes.

Earlier this week, Trimble hosted a webinar diving into one of ProjecSight’s most powerful features, managing your data in the field. With several apps for every task, finding the right information has become a job in itself. Trimble ProjectSight solves this problem by bringing all of your project’s stakeholders into a single tool where everyone has access to the current drawings, models, files, and records.

Watch the recorded Building with Trimble webinar to learn more about daily reports, filtering drawing annotations, and easily referencing drawing annotations.

The Trimble RTS series represents the latest and greatest  from the company that created the original Robotic Total Station almost 30 years ago. In this conversation, BuildingPoint covers the unique functionality of the different RTS units, and how they can fit into your workflow.

To learn more about the Trimble RTS series, or to schedule a demo, click the link below.

It’s a simple fact. Every completed estimate is a reflection of your company’s processes. The ability to collect, manage, and present data is a key component to effectively differentiating yourself in today’s competitive construction marketplace.  With Trimble WinEst, there’s only one way you can create estimates… your way. Built from the very beginning with a custom-tailored approach, WinEst can reflect your unique capabilities and best practices, while also providing the peace-of-mind that comes with leveraging the most robust database structure within the industry.  With Trimble WinEst, you can spend less time worrying about estimates, instead focusing on the decisions and conversations that lead to a winning proposal.

Standardize Your Best Practices
Pre-formatted and pre-packaged assemblies are a great starting point. And Trimble WinEst leverages and offers the complete collection of RS Means databases to serve as a springboard to preparing your proposals more quickly and efficiently. While this is a fantastic starting point, the ability to then take these assemblies and customize them to reflect your specific experience and core competencies translates into a comprehensive best practice database this captures your advantages. These advantages can then be applied directly to each and every proposal.

Create Powerful Proposals
When the time comes to create a powerful and compelling proposal to present to your client, Trimble WinEst is simply second to none. With a familiar, intuitive, and easy-to-use proposal creation toolkit, you can develop a proposal template that can easily be applied to any estimate. Trimble WinEst ensures that you have a consistent and professional template that perfectly reflects your brand and your firm’s image. All without worrying about formatting or variation from project to project. With Trimble WinEst, you’re in complete control of your client’s perception.

To learn more, or to see first-hand how Trimble WinEst can help your estimates achieve the next level, check out our in-depth solution video by clicking the link below, or simply contact your BuildingPoint representative today.

Managing data in the field can be a chore in today’s app based world. With several apps for every task, finding the right information has become a job in itself. ProjectSight solves this problem by bringing all of your project’s stakeholders into a single tool where everyone has access to the current drawings, models, files, and records.

Learn how to bring your field data together with Trimble ProjectSight in next week’s Trimble Webinar on Tuesday, April 25th at 12:00PM Eastern.