Trimble Connect Visualizer - Create 3D renderings of your models
Trimble Connect Visualizer - Create 3D renderings of your models
Starting from Tekla Structures 2019i, you can now access Trimble Connect Visualizertool that creates photorealistic renderings of the model or selected model objects and can be used for taking screenshots and creating animations that demonstrate the design and build options of the model
Trimble Connect Visualizer shows the model’s material types and sets it in a scene.
directly from Tekla Structures. In Trimble Connect Visualizertool that creates photorealistic renderings of the model or selected model objects and can be used for taking screenshots and creating animations that demonstrate the design and build options of the model
Trimble Connect Visualizer shows the model’s material types and sets it in a scene.
, you can take snapshots or create animations that demonstrate the design of your models and the build options, and use the snapshots and animations to create more appealing sales and project presentations.
Create 3D renderings and set material type mappings
The Visualize commands are located on the View tab.
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Click Visualize selected to open a renderingprocess of making the model object faces visible
The rendered model object faces can be transparent or non-transparent
of the selected model objects in Trimble Connect Visualizer. -
Click Visualize all to open a rendering of the entire model in Trimble Connect Visualizer.
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Click Visualizer material type settings to open the Visualizer settings dialog box, where you can adjust how the materials in your model are shown in Trimble Connect Visualizer.
The material type mappings can be saved either:-
to the \attributes folder under the model folderfolder that is used for storing files associated with a model
Tekla Structures stores all files associated with a model in a folder it creates with the same name as the model database (.db1).
In multi-user mode all users access the same model folder.
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to the app data, so that the same material type mappings can be applied to all of your models.
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Adjust the model view in Trimble Connect Visualizer
You can zoom, pan, and rotate the model to view different angles of the model.
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Zoom in or out |
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Pan the model |
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Rotate the model |
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on the Trimble Connect Visualizer side pane to further adjust the scene. You can change:-
The used skybox, or background, and its rotation
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The position of the sun
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The brightness of the scene
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The visibility and position of the ground plane
Take and view snapshots
All snapshots that you take in Trimble Connect Visualizer are saved in the C:\Users\<username>\Pictures\TrimbleConnectVisualizer folder.
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To take a snapshot of the current view, click
in the Trimble Connect Visualizer side pane. - To open the C:\Users\<username>\Pictures\TrimbleConnectVisualizer folder and see all snapshots that you have taken, click
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Create animations
You can create animations that show the model from different angles, or views.
To start creating animations, click
on the Trimble Connect Visualizer side pane.
Then, click + to add the views that you want to include in the animation.
You can also adjust the speed of the animation and the sun position, and preview the animation.
Comments
is it possible to save your animation, and of it is how can this be done?
Hi Sebastiaan,
To save your animation, you should use a separate screen recorder, such as the built-in free screen recorded in Windows 10. You can find further instructions here: https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/how-to-video-screen-capture-windows-10
Use Captura: great many features and completely free.
https://mathewsachin.github.io/Captura/
Hi Daan,
Thank you for the recommendation!