Trimble Business Center

Hi,

I've been working with TBC for a year now, and I have a new supervisor working towards having the entire project in Autodesk Navisworks since there is a free viewer for the engineers and management. I've tried importing it into Civil3D, Revit, and Sketchup by exporting the utilities through various extension types. I haven't been able to export the utilities into any format that shows anything other than the center lines of the utilities. 

Any tips or suggestions?

Have you tried XML under the construction tab of the exporter? I have had mixed luck with this depending on what you are doing but have had utilities come through. 

If you have a Trimble Connect Account you can do the following

1) Export from TBC as a LandXML file

2) Upload to Trimble Connect and open in the Connect 3D viewer

3) From the connect 3D viewer select the utilities and export as a TRB (TrimBim) file

4) Import the TRB file into TBC - the objects should now be 3D IFC Shells / BIM objects

5) You should be able to select those and export them as an IFC file that should read into Navis Works

I think this will work - not ideal I know. I think you can sign up for a free Connect account - you can also use that as a collaborative viewing environment as well as Trimble Connect Desktop which will load RVT and DWG and IFC files for collective viewing and analysis

Alan