Trimble Business Center

There are certain workflows we are struggling with in TBC with the inability to import VCE files into one another (or even be able to reference different filetypes into TBC).

While not limited to, it is particularly an issue with SX10 data and retaining the connection between scan data and linework. There is no process to share scan and line data together between VCE files cleanly and easily (that I am aware of). This causes a couple big of issues:

• Scan data needs to be processed in a single file, slowing down importing and computations.
• Processing larger datasets is slower and more complicated
  • It is hard to process individual days as scans are still being collected.
• Fieldwork issues and corrections in larger projects over multiple days are harder to address
  • Simple issues like addressing azimuth, coordinates, point names becomes more complex with more data in the file.
• Selecting/turning off data specified in a specific day/job is not clean
  • It would be nice to be able to turn on and off imported field data raw data files in the view filter manage
• We don't have a format that contains both linework, scan data and things like photos that can also be collected to transfer data completely between files.

While this is an issue for SX10 data, we have seen it as an issue for users who want to import data from other projects types as well.

Does the "merge survey projects" not work?

Merge survey projects could be a good solution, however the problem here is that only merges point and line data, it doesn't merge images and point clouds.

The issue we are trying to solve here is to cleanly be able to hand data from different projects on different days holding all the data together.

The Merge Survey projects would still need a secondary process of importing the job file and merging that with existing points.

Hi Ross, 

Thanks for voicing your concerns! This is definitely an area which TBC can and must improve upon, especially with the new X7 Scanner hitting the market very soon.

Might I suggest implementing selection sets to your workflow to better organize data? In the view filter manager, you can turn on/off selection sets created from raw data files to give you finer control the view, as you mentioned in your post. 

Merging projects would be an engineering nightmare, with all the conflicts we'd have to consider. Lessons were learned during the development of the 'Merge Survey Projects' command. I'd prefer to keep vces separate and improve our means of organizing data in a single project.

Joshua