Trimble Connect Product Updates

Trimble Connect Desktop v1.5 can be downloaded from here.

New Features

• Data tab layout changes: Project Views and ToDos can now be easily accessed. Project details are shown at the top with quick navigation to more features on the web

• ToDo Panel: Project users can now easily see the ToDo assigned to them and take action

• Models tab updates: The model hierarchy in models tab follow now the project hierarchy created in the DATA tab. All models are found under a main group (root folder), which has the project name. All folders in the project are also represented in the models tab as groups
  
  

• Invite users to the project easily from desktop app itself

• Link files to model objects

• Expanded general settings including options for rendering and proxy settings in user interface

Improvements

• File synchronization has been improved by showing available content on the UI even if full content synchronization is still in progress.
• Performance improvement: 3D navigation has been improved and is now smoother and faster
• Opening project is now done by single clicking projects in the project library
• Support for synchronizing project unit settings has been added.

• Color for markups can now be changed from markups toolbar

• Horizontal/Vertical measurement command: The Horizontal/Vertical measurements tool allows to create an horizontal/vertical measure between two objects

• 3D Navigation: Reset model and Predefined view commands

Reset model. Reset all object colors and visibility, and set camera back to Axon view

Predefined views. Set the predefined view to be shown in 3D view. The different predefined view available are: Axon (Default), Top, Front, Left,  Back, Right, Bottom

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where models were not shown correctly in orthogonal mode.
• Fixed an issue where point cloud processing with Las file made the application unresponsive in certain cases.
• Fixed an issue which caused login to fail when Google credentials were used.
• Fixed an issue which caused certain UI elements to show incorrectly in tablet mode.
• Fixed an issue which caused clashes tab to show incorrect selection states in certain cases.
• Fixed an issue which caused application to crash when file location was changed locally after file was removed from the server.
• Fixed an issue which caused application to crash when closing a project while having measurements tool active in 3D.
• Fixed an issue which caused incorrect colors to be shown for models produced by Revit add-in.
• Fixed an issue which caused incorrect file status to be displayed in file tree in certain cases.
• Fixed an issue which caused objects to show correctly only when selected in certain cases when using DirectX.
• Fixed an issue which caused artifacts in the 3D view in certain cases while moving or scaling a model when using DirectX.
• Fixed an issue which caused Korean letters to show incorrectly for Sketchup model layers.
• Fixed an issue where comments in a ToDo were not always in the correct order.
• Fixed an issue where model alignment preview graphics were not showing the values based on the selected unit settings.
• Fixed an issue that occasionally caused buttons to be unresponsive when using touch interface.
• Fixed an issue that prevented object selection in 3D view when using touch interface.
• Fixed an issue that prevented picking in 3D view when using touch interface.
• Fixed an issue which caused text markups to show incorrectly in certain languages.
• Fixed an issue which occasionally caused additional files to be downloaded from the server.
• Fixed an issue which prevented view sharing in certain cases.