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  • 1.  Different colours Trimble connect and Businesscenter

    Posted 10-15-2018 02:30

    I have uploaded a vce-file to trimble connect and when i look at it in trimble connect the lines has changed colours. Anyone else having this trouble? 

     



  • 2.  Re: Different colours Trimble connect and Businesscenter

    Posted 10-15-2018 11:13

    I checked this out Frederik - this capability was added to Connect by the Geospatial Team and I have never actually tried it out (actually it came as news to me that Connect now assimilated VCE files (having said that it only assimilates Features and Lines and Geometries - it doesn't assimilate surfaces etc at this stage according to the Survey developers that sit near me in the office.

     

    You are correct - colors in Connect are different to thjose in the VCE file - I tried both By Layer and Fixed Color and neither works - so I have reported this into the Geospatial Development Team as a defect.

     

    Thanks for raising the issue

     

    Alan



  • 3.  Re: Different colours Trimble connect and Businesscenter

    Posted 10-15-2018 16:14
    Frederik
    I received this response from development this afternoon on how Connect is reading TBC VCE files.
    "Connect is assimilating vce files by running the TBC shape file exporter and then feeding the exported shapefile to the Connect's shapefile importer.  Shapefiles don't have a concept of color so any styling from TBC is lost."
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    When working with Shape files in BC-HCE, we color the imported data by layer, so you can change the Layer Color to get the colors to be whet you require. In BC-HCE you can set up a Project Template that has the colors setup already, so on import Shape Files look like they have color. This solution was taken because Shape Files already had an import to Connect, and this was deemed the easiest path to take linework with Feature / Attribute data into the connect environment. Looks like this is "less than ideal" but at least is an explanation of what is happening. On Connect Desktop, I believe you can change the color of the layers to get to what you need, but Connect Desktop has a better Graphics Engine today than Connect Web. 
    Apologies that this answer is not a better one.
    Alan