Trimble SiteVision Export Workflows

Trimble SiteVision uses the SiteVision integrated positioning system combined with a user-supplied phone with Google Play Services for AR to produce a hand-held high-accuracy outdoor augmented reality system. SiteVision enables users and clients to easily understand information such as new designs or existing underground services by seeing it in true-life scale on their hand-held device in the context of existing surroundings.

The SiteVision AR exporter enables you to export points, CAD objects, lines, surfaces, and areas from your project to Trimble SiteVision. The instructions for using this exporter are provided in Export Trimble SiteVision AR Files (.jxl, .trb, .vcl).

This topic describes two other TBC workflows you can use to export data from your project to Trimble SiteVision.

Note that, depending on the workflow, the following file formats can be used to export TBC project data to SiteVision.

Supported Data Types
Format Points Lines Surfaces & areas Attributes

VCL (.vcl)
TBC Project files

Y

Y

Y

Y

TTM (.ttm)

Trimble Surface files

 

 

Y

Y

Image overlay

SKP (.skp)
SketchUp files

Y

Y

Y

 

IFC (.ifc)
Industrial Foundation Class files

 

Y

Y

Y

LandXML (.xml)
Open XML file format

Y

Y

Y

Y

DWG (.dwg)
CAD Drawing file

Y

Y

Y

 

SHP (.shp)
Esri Shapefiles

Y

Y

Y

Y

To export cut/fill maps for viewing in SiteVision:

  1. Use the TTM exporter to export an appropriate surface over which images can be draped in SiteVision. See Export a Trimble Surface (.ttm) file.
  2. Use the appropriate exporter to export a JobXML (.jxl) or data collector (.dc) file with the same name as the TTM file to provide control in SiteVision. See Export JobXML Files or Export Trimble Data Collector Files (.dc).
  3. If you have not already done so, use the Create Cut/Fill Map command to create the cut/fill map you want to export. See Create a Cut/Fill Map.
  4. Use the Create Plotbox command to create a plotbox around the cut/fill map. Be sure to uncheck the Label grid check box in the command. See Create a Plotbox and Print its Contents.
  5. Use the Capture Image command to capture the plot box as a 2D image file to the Snapshot sub-folder in the project folder. Change the file extension to PNG (.png) in the File name field, and select the Very High Resolution option. See Capture an Image from the Plan View.
  6. Manually upload the three files—TTM, JXL/CAL/DC, and PNG—to Trimble Connect so they can be accessed from Trimble SiteVision.

To export utilities data for viewing in SiteVision:

  1. Use the LandXML exporter to export the utility data you want to view in SiteVision. See Export LandXML Files.
  2. Use the Survey Data Collector (DC) exporter to export survey points in a data collector file with the same name as the XML file to provide control for the utility data in SiteVision. See Export Trimble Data Collector Files (.dc).
  3. Use the appropriate exporter to export a JobXML (.jxl) or data collector (.dc) file with the same name as the XML file to provide control in SiteVision. See Export JobXML Files or Export Trimble Data Collector Files (.dc).
  4. Manually upload the two files—XML and DC—to Trimble Connect so they can be accessed from Trimble SiteVision.

Related topics

Export Trimble SiteVision AR Files