Trimble Business Center's field-to-finish survey CAD software helps surveyors deliver high-accuracy GNSS data, create CAD deliverables, and leverage full data traceability throughout a project's lifecycle.

Trimble Business Center Make better decisions, decrease costly mistakes, and increase efficiency in the office and on the job site. Powerful tools help you quickly and easily create accurate, integrated 3D constructible models for construction surveying and machine control. Download 30-Day Trial Get a Demo. Take a quick look at some of the new features of Trimble Business Center - HCE 3.60, such as the Fillet/Chamfer, Variable Offset and Create Leader commands.

Data Traceability

CAD Capabilities

Point Cloud Tools

Vertical Workflows

Always know where your data came from, and who created it. TBC allows you to have full data traceability back to the raw survey measurements throughout your survey workflows. This means if you have to make a correction, like adjusting a rod height, you can identify this easily and your data value updates immediately throughout any processing and adjustments you've made. Full traceability, instant results.

TBC has a range of tools for processing control, running traverse adjustments, and combining all of your data sources including GNSS, level and total station measurements. TBC uses robust calculations including least squares adjustments within the processing engine so your network is as accurate as it can be.

TBC offers surveyors efficient CAD tools you need like the CAD Command Line, customized drafting templates, simplified selection tools, and 2D, 3D, and section views.

Create and deliver surface and parametric corridor models with user-friendly options and multiple graphical views. And with precise volume computations, contour lines, and cut-fill maps, complete the analysis your clients need.

Work with point cloud data from any source alongside your traditional survey measurements in TBC. And with automated tools like regional classification, density sampling, and feature extraction, you'll be able to deliver robust CAD and image deliverables.

Import and process imagery from industry-leading unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with streamlined workflows in TBC or customize the setup with the included Inpho UASMaster software.

Then, utilize your survey-grade deliverables including orthomosaics, point clouds, and digital surface models with the CAD, surface, and other tools that TBC offers.

From tunneling, monitoring, and mobile mapping to quantity takeoffs and machine control data prep, TBC features the unique workflows you need to complete your survey and construction data collection, processing, and deliverables.

Connect to other leading software packages from ESRI, Autodesk, and Bentley with geodatabase connections, feature mapping, and CAD exports so you can spend less time moving data between the platforms you need and more time delivering work to your clients.

Understanding and Applying Scale Factors in Scanning Workflows in Trimble Business Center

We explain how TBC utilizes mathematical concepts like scale factors and projections to transform and align different field data types.

Trimble Business Center (TBC) v5.00 was released on November 19th, 2018 (you can download it here). The first thing you'll notice is the new look:

The Trimble Business Center team and our user experience (UX) designers created a new icon and color scheme to create a cleaner, modern experience. Under the hood all of your existing tools and core workflows are there, so current TBC users will feel right at home with the new version.

Trimble Business Center and Business Center - HCE Now Combined

Trimble has previously had two versions of the software, Trimble Business Center targeted at survey and geospatial users, and Business Center - HCE targeted at Civil Engineering and Construction users. Now both of these are combined into a single software platform in Trimble Business Center v5.00.

What does that mean for you? For many users, their projects include both survey and construction workflows and this integration will now give them all of the tools they need in one software. Trimble Business Center has always been the ideal hub for project data, both from the field and the office, and now this data hub extends even further with v5.00.

New Capabilities

Auto-extract Trees, Poles and Signs from Point Clouds

Trimble Business Center v5.00 has a lot of other new capabilities such as automated feature extraction, powered by Trimble eCognition® software, dramatically reduces the time to extract features, such as trees, poles and signs, from point cloud data.

New multi slice tools, combined with cutting plane workflows, allow you to quickly extract cross sections from point clouds at intervals along a linear geometry. This will help you save time with corridor redesign and maintenance reporting.

Trimble Business Center Hce Tutorials

For mobile mapping systems such as the Trimble MX9, survey and construction professionals can now easily integrate these multi-sensor data types together within the single software environment, streamlining their workflows and increasing productivity.

Trimble Macro Language (TML)

The new Trimble Macro Language (TML) allows survey and construction professionals to customize data computations and add new CAD and GIS workflows to fit specific local requirements. By extending out-of-the-box software capabilities, customers can further increase operational efficiency, reducing the time to create client deliverables.