Trimble Connect Object Manager User Guide

Export to File

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Export contents from the model to various file formats.

Use this function to export your model data to various file formats which you can then import into other programs. See Supported File Formats for the file types you can export. Many of the types listed have links to topics with format-specific details:

Export to LandXML (.xml)

Also, consider exchanging data seamlessly using the Connectors (Upcoming Release).

Select Output > Export to File.

During the export process, we refer to the active model as the source and the file as the target.

When you do a file export you will get a task (export task) in the process model that documents what you did, in this case, which file you exported to, which point of time you did it, which conversion rule you used, the number of objects that were exported and more.

This opens the Export to file tool. Here, you will have to go through a series of steps to export a model to a file.

Task

You can here select a template for the import. Novapoint provides a set of predefined templates that are available when creating a task.

Selection

In the Filter panel, click Select Features to select the feature (types) that you want to export from the model.

Select by feature types and/or by location (area, e.g. make a polygon).

Format

Here you can select the file format for the export. A settings dialog will appear for any format that has writer settings. See the sub-pages for format-specific settings.

Change CRS

If you want a different CRS for your output file you can specify this by clicking the Change CRS button. The transformation of the CRS is run after the conversion of the features.

File Items

The model is an object-oriented model, that is, it consists of features like “GuardRail, CarriagewayEdge, Fence”. When exporting data to a file, the export process has functionality to change the objects into file items, e.g. to CAD layers. This transformation is based on a set of rules, called Conversion Rules.

The Conversion Rules are selected in the Select Conversion Rules dialog.

When the file is created, its Coordinate Reference System (CRS) is checked against that of the binder's CRS. If they don't match, you will be asked what to do through the CRS validation.

Preview

In the Finish panel, click Preview to see the data after conversion, but before it is exported.

You get a (temporary) plan window, Preview of created features. This window presents the data that has been successfully converted (and transformed, if a coordinate transformation was trigged).

If nothing shows up in the Preview of created features plan window, the reason might be:

No conversion rule was selected.
The conversion rules selected did not match the information in the selected files.

Destination

Select destination for the exported file

- select Projects for uploading to Trimble Connect for Browser. You can select the current project, or any other of your active projects.

Click the Projects button:

Select destination folder in the current project.

Enter a suitable name for the file.

Click the Projects button in the dialog to access the list of your active projects if you want to select another destination project.

Hit Save to finish.

The information about Project, Folder and File name is displayed.

-select File for storing the file on disc.

Click the File button:

Select folder and a suitable file name.

Hit Save.

The file path and name is displayed.

-select ProjectWise for storing the file on in ProjectWise.

When selecting ProjectWise, no selecting is done until you finish the task - Hit Finish and follow the steps.

Finish

Click Finish to perform the complete export to file.

If you click Finish without having used the Preview option, the information will be exported directly. This may save time during the export of large data.

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