2017 Tekla Road Show
Lee Snyder | Product Manager
Agenda
Trimble Connect Overview
Status Sharing
Link documents to ToDo’s
Releases and Document Markup Tools
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Trimble Connect Overview
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2D Documents 3D BIM
Many File Formats & ToolsStakeholders & Disciplines
Today’s Project Information
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What Trimble Connect Delivers
Agnostic, Secure, Simple, Robust, Global, Cloud
Platform & Technology ServicesSingle Source of Truth
Ecosystem of Collaboration
WebDesktop Mobile
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Trimble Connect Sync
Status Sharing
Status Concept – Linking Data
Status data• Fabrication Started
• Fabrication Completed
• Steel Ordered
• Steel Erected
• On Hold
• ...
• Trimble
• ERP
• 3rd Parties
• ...
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Status data embedded to objects
Status dataLinked to objects
Native model IFC model
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Status Concept – Data Model
Status values• Detailing
completed• Drawings
published• Fabrication
paused• Received to site• Erection
completed• Planned
erection date• ...
Actions and status values are merged
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Events and status values are
industry, area, customer, project,
workflow ... specific
New
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My Action 1
My Action 2
My Action 3
Started
Completed
Completed
Started
Paused
Completed
Started
Actions and status values are separated
Actions are dynamic and fully
customizable
Sharing process specific data →
Impossible to standardize
Dynamic customizable process together with standard data model
None
Available Status values are fixed• And could be
standardized
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Status Values
▪ Empty – Not addressed
▪ None – No activity, but connected to an Action
▪ Started
▪ Paused
▪ Completed
▪ Commit – Commitment to do, e.g. included to next phase plan
▪ Enable – Objects which are available, e.g. possible to start installation
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Fully Customizable Process Description
▪ Describe your own process with Actions– Share the essential milestones with other stakeholders using Public Actions
▪ Follow your internal process with Private Actions▪ Share Status Events through Trimble Connect
– Almost real time– Buffering when offline
▪ Collect the history data of all status changes– Status events– Time– By whom
▪ Visualize the situation in the models▪ Store the corresponding values into Tekla Structures for reporting
– Organizer + Object Browser
Trimble Connect
Status Data
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Entering Status Values
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Select Action (Public)
Change Action settings Set Status value
Delayed enteringDefine Tekla
Structures UDAs
Public: read only
Owner: read/write
History Playback (Public)
Creating Actions
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Action name
Private / Public setting
Status values• Can be changed afterwards
Status values copied to
Tekla Structures database• Status value
• Last update date
• Start date
• End date
Store UDA’s If Needed For Reporting
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History Playback
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Status Sharing Workflow
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Linking documents to Trimble Connect
Linking documents to Trimble Connect
Publish PDF drawings and IFC to Trimble Connect
– Create TODO per assembly
– Link workshop and assembly drawings
– Trimble Connect project needs to be created first
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Linking documents to Trimble Connect
Create TODOs to attach the documents
All drawings belonging to one assembly can be nested under the assembly TODO
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Workflow Video
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Attach file(s) or a URL to BIM object(s)
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Attach file(s) or a URL to BIM object(s)
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Releases and Document Markup Tools
Releases
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Send versions of files or folders to project members
Document Markup Tools
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Document Management
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Stores versions of all files (2d/3d/etc.)
Includes time stamp
Can download any version
Releases and Document Markup Tools Workflow
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Summary
Cloud Based Fabrication Workflows
Status Sharing
Create Actions
View Status
History Playback
Linking documents to Trimble Connect
TODO per Assembly
Link IFC of Assembly
Link part & assembly PDF’s
Releases and Document Markup Tools
Send versions of files or folders
Markup documents
Assign as TODO’s
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Recent Development
Trimble Connect
Trimble Connect Desktop
– Point cloud visualization support
– Assembly selection mode
– Support for playing saved views as slide show
– Defining and starting clash check from Trimble Connect for Desktop
– Measurements can be now also created to clip plane
Point Clouds
Trimble Connect Desktop
– .LAS/.LAZ file formats