Open native BIMSight files in Trimble Connect

Tekla Structures
Trimble Connect
Not version-specific
Tekla Structures
open BIMSight in Trimble Connect
conver bimsight files
convert .TBP files
tbp files trimble connect
Environment
Not environment-specific

Tekla BIMsight is now Trimble Connect. Since 2015 this same team has been developing Trimble Connect. We hope that you enjoy the new tool. BIMsight is no longer maintained or supported.

Question: I have several *.tbp (Native BIMSight extension) files and I need to open them on Trimble Connect. How do I do it? I no longer have the software installed.

Answer: You can drag and drop the *.tbp file to a Trimble Connect for Windows projects page. (It doesn’t work if you try to import the *.tbp file inside an existing TC project). The conversion process might be slow, so you need to be patient.

All the files and their placements are imported to the Trimble Connect project. There are, however, the following limitations:

  • ToDos
  • Views
  • ClashChecks

Those are not exported to Trimble Connect.

It is also possible to extract an IFC file from a Tekla .tbp container format package file. Part of what a .tbp typically contains is the model data in IFC format, and users can access this data by opening the .tbp in an archive viewer such as 7-zip as shown in the following image:

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