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The TBC Community is for customers and end users to collaborate, teach, learn, and encourage one another with new and exciting workflows within TBC. The TBC Community is a professional space and contributors are required to maintain a constructive tone. Any intolerance, personal insults, and negative comments will be flagged and removed with all perpetrators being removed from the group without warning.

If there are TBC bugs or issues that need to be addressed, please first reach out to your local Trimble Authorized Dealer or communicate with a Trimble representative in a private message. 

Thank you for your understanding and support as we all build the TBC Community into a productive environment to learn and contribute to improving TBC’s survey and construction workflows.


TBC Field-to-Finish with Confidence 
Trimble Business Center's field-to-finish survey CAD software helps surveyors deliver high-accuracy GNSS data, create CAD deliverables, and leverage full data traceability throughout a project's lifecycle. 
Make better decisions, decrease costly mistakes, and increase efficiency in the office and on the job site. Powerful tools help you quickly and easily create accurate, integrated 3D constructible models for construction surveying and machine control. Managing your data across the project lifecycle has never been easier than with Trimble Business Center. Combined survey and construction functions lower operational costs and increase productivity, providing a larger set of tools for users to leverage.

For additional helpful resources, visit the TBC Knowledge Center.

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Announcements

  • TBC Version 5.90 Now Avaliable!

    Hello TBC users! We are pleased to announce that Trimble Business Center (TBC) version 5.90 is now available for download. 

    TBC version 5.90 emphasizes features and functionality that automate tasks, simplify data processing and better connect actionable information to project team members, stakeholders and communities.

    Some exciting features and highlights are listed here and in the Release Notes:

    Mobile mapping batch processingLong pre-processing operations like scan generation, classification and colorization can be performed more efficiently in overnight sessions. 

    Simplified point cloud stockpile extractionAutomatically generate stockpile boundaries and calculate volumes without manual interaction.

    Point cloud classification and feature extractionWith the implementation of deep learning capabilities, point cloud classifications are of higher quality and feature extraction has higher accuracy.

    Multi-code point feature specificationsSelectively or automatically assign feature codes during point extraction, allowing flexibility to assign appropriate feature codes to varying extracted features when necessary. 

    Expanded extraction supportAutomatically extract manhole diameters and extract multiple road markings of the same type within an area of interest, increasing speed. 

    Streamline GIS InteroperabilityExchange survey data with ESRI Feature Service or postgres database.

    Expanded third-party UAS support and higher-quality deliverablesSupport any type of drone with the expanded sensor library in addition to access to tools that eliminate bright spots, enhance geometry in shadow areas and more. 

    Improved power, process and speed—Existing workflows across cadastral, mobile mapping and takeoff/mass-haul while building on industry-standard CAD imports and tailored routines for Trimble and third-party field data formats have improved.

    You can download v5.90 here, from the Civil Construction Software Downloads page, or using TBC's “Check for Updates" command within the software.

    Check out our blog for more information on the latest release: https://geospatialresources.trimble.com/blog/what-s-new-in-trimble-business-center-version-5-90

  • TBC Input & Expertise Requested

    Happy New Year TBC'ers!

    Hope you all had a festive holiday season. The TBC Team has been conducting a competitive analysis project in assessing our product against similar market solutions over the last several months.

    As we conclude this project, we would like to request additional input, feedback and expertise from end-users like yourselves in assessing the qualitative aspects of TBC.

    Besides TBC, are you familiar with either of the following?
    1) Bentley Microstation
    2) Leica Infinity
    3) Topcon Magnet
    4) Autodesk Civil 3D
    5) Carlson Survey

    If yes, we would like to invite you towards participating in a short 15-minute survey. We value your time and look forward to being in communication while collaborating towards TBC improvements. Projects like these allow us to better align future product development roadmaps with the expectations of our customers and users like yourself. Lastly I would like to invite you in forwarding the survey link to any other TBC stakeholder within your network who you feel may add critical insight.

    Survey - Google Forms: LINK 

    Thank you,
    The TBC Product Team
  • Trimble Connect Regions - Scheduled Maintenance Break

    There will be a maintenance break in all Trimble Connect regions on Sun Dec 18th, 5:30-5:50 am UTC. During this time, all Connect services are inoperational. This update is a mandatory part of our platform maintenance. We apologize for the inconvenience.
  • TBC Version 5.81

    Hi TBC Community!

    On behalf of the TBC Product and Engineering teams, I'm happy to announce that TBC version 5.81 is now available to download here or by selecting Support > Check for Updates within TBC.

    This minor release includes new features such as the International GNSS Service (IGS) adoption of IGS20 reference frame to support precise orbits, support for DJI Mavic 3 Enterprise (M3E) Series UAS, and inclusion of GPS exif attributes for mobile mapping image exports.

    In addition, TBC v5.81 includes bug fixes such as supporting the Trimble Access 2022.10 JXL and IFC properties in JOB files; importing and printing PDF plan sets, CAD grips and snaps; and correcting the subscription license failure when performing photogrammetry processing; and more.


    For more information, please review the Release Notes, as well as bulletins and downloads that are available to the public at trimble.com/tbc.

    Respectively,
    The TBC Product Team
  • TBC Aerial Photogrammetry Workflow Website Live

    New to TBC Aerial Photogrammetry?  Think you know the capabilities of TBC Aerial Photogrammetry?

    Leverage all the new and updated content that the TBC team has to offer to learn how TBC can be your survey and construction workflow aerial photogrammetry solution with the new workflow website.

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