Match views and selections between Tekla Structures and Trimble Connect for Windows

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Tekla Structures

Match views and selections between Tekla Structures and Trimble Connect for Windows

If you are working in Tekla Structures and Trimble Connect for Windows at the same time, you can collaborate with the two applications. In practice, this means that you can match the zoom and projection of the 3D model views, and select the same objects in both applications.

Before collaborating, you need to do the following:

  • Have a project open in Trimble Connect for Windows and a model open in Tekla Structures.

  • Export the Tekla Structures model to Trimble Connect in the IFC format.

    For more information, see Manage reference models in Trimble Connector.

  • Download and show the model in Trimble Connect for Windows.

Match the camera position, zoom level, and projection of model views

You can adjust the model views in Tekla Structures and in Trimble Connect for Windows to match each other as well as possible. When you do so, the camera position, zoom level, and view projection of the views are synchronized. You can select which model view is the principal model view to which you want to match the other model view.

Do either of the following:

To

Do this

Adjust the Tekla Structures model view to match the Trimble Connect for Windows view

  • On the Trimble Connect tab, click Match with Trimble Connect for Windows view.

Adjust the Trimble Connect for Windows model view to match the Tekla Structures view

  • On the Trimble Connect tab, click Match with Tekla Structures view.

Select the same objects

Do either of the following:

To

Do this

Select the currently selected Trimble Connect objects also in the Tekla Structures model

  • On the Trimble Connect tab, click Select in Trimble Connect for Windows.

Select the currently selected Tekla Structures model objects also in Trimble Connect for Windows

  • On the Trimble Connect tab, click Select in Tekla Structures.

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