Projects & jobs

To use Trimble Access you must have at least one project and one job.

Projects

Projects provide an easy way to organize your survey work into jobs and to share project data and configuration settings across jobs in the project.

Storing projects and jobs in the Trimble Connect cloud-based platform enables you to make optimal use of cloud-connected workflows, allowing seamless updates and collaboration between the field and office. You can create projects from the office using Trimble Connect or from the field using Trimble Access. You can upload a project created in Trimble Access to Trimble Connect at any time.

Project settings can be applied to all jobs in the project, including coordinate system settings, measurement units, and the Feature Library FXL file to use for coding points, lines, and polygons as different feature types.

You can add project data in any supported format as long as the data is in the same coordinate system as the project and jobs. Typically, you will add project data to provide key information used by the job such as control point files or design files including BIM models, DXF and LandXML files.

Project data can be used by any job in the project. If you are working in a cloud-connected workflow, updates to the project data in Trimble Connect are automatically received by every controller using the project. This ensures everyone on the project team has the latest design files and control point files.

Jobs

Use jobs to organize your fieldwork to suit how you work. For example, you can create a new job for each day's work, or you can use one job per phase of a project.

Jobs contain the data measured and observed using the Trimble Access software, including raw survey data from one or more surveys. The job also contains coordinate system, measurement unit, and Feature Library settings which may have been copied from the project. All jobs in the same project usually have identical settings but this is not essential.

Imagery captured in the field is stored in separate files and linked to the job, including scan data, photos and annotated images.

The job may contain additional data including:

  • data imported into the job rather than adding separate project data files

  • points, lines or polygons you have selected from project data files and then used in Trimble Access to perform a calculation, create another point, or chosen to copy into the job.