Visualize jobs with Trimble Connect Organizer and Trimble Connect Content Browser
You can use Trimble Connect Organizer to visualize and group items on your estimating jobs and production control jobs. You can select which fields in Tekla PowerFab you want to use to categorize model objects that correspond to your Tekla PowerFab items in the related IFC model, and highlight or color-code model objects according to different criteria.
- You need to have a Trimble Connect Business Premium license.
- Your estimating job and production control job need to be linked through the
Project
Management module.
For more information, see Link a production control job to an estimating job and a project management job.
Note that your estimating job and production control job do not necessarily need to be linked to the same Trimble Connect project.
- The jobs need to be linked to a Trimble Connect project.
For more information, see Link Tekla PowerFab to Trimble Connect.
Set up item categories for Trimble Connect Organizer
You can now set up the categories that you want to use in Trimble Connect Organizer. The categories determine which criteria you can use to highlight and color-code items in the linked estimating and production control jobs.
Publish job information manually to Trimble Connect Organizer
From | Do this |
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An estimating job |
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A production control job |
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The item information is uploaded to Trimble Connect Organizer, and will be visible in the Organizer side pane in Trimble Connect for Browser.
You can also create an automated event that uploads the item information to Trimble Connect Organizer automatically as often as you want. For more information, see Automated events.
Highlight selected items in Trimble Connect Organizer
Color-code items with Trimble Connect Content Browser
The objects on all rows of Content Browser are color-coded in the 3D view. The color that is used for each row is shown on the right side of the row title.
In the following image, you can see items grouped and color-coded by production sequence.