The Materials feature allows you to apply materials to BIM elements. You can modify materials on individual elements, groups of elements or entire BIMs. You can also clone materials and modify their colour and transparency.

Material System Documentation

Construction Visualization Styles (CVS) involves applying dynamic styles or animations, such as movement, growth, and swiping, along with color changes to BIM elements during their construction and/or deconstruction phases. This enhances task methodologies through clear, real-time visual feedback.

Construction Visualization Styles are an extension of the BIM links feature in Tobe Builder. It easily allows the user to set a visualization style on BIM elements that are linked to a Task.

Construction Visualization Styles

The Transform section of the Selection Inspector appears for any world space object that has a position on the map in the Scene Window. This includes BIMs, Resources, Shapes, Image Targets and more. It provides editable fields which show the object's position and rotation. This enables you to move any object within the scene to a specific point, and rotation in either global or grid coordinates. Users can also copy and paste a location from one object to another.

Selection Inspector > Transform

The simple timeline allows you to visualize the time range for your sequence as part of the video export. It negates the need to add a timeline to videos via post-processing workflows. To use the timeline, toggle the Timeline on in the Sequence Editor.

Tobe Twin desktop connector allows users to link their Tobe Builder desktop projects, to the Tobe Twin live IoT device feeds. Users can select a Tobe Twin data source, and then configure and load connected device feeds into their Tobe Builder project.

Tobe Twin devices can be accessed via the Devices Timeline, or the Devices global Menu.

Tobe Twin Connector Documentation

As ToBe Builder users continue to create larger and more complex projects, it is inevitable that system resources can become overwhelmed. This can lead to slow loading times and decreased performance while working on your project. To address this issue, we have implemented changes to the loading process in ToBe Builder.

One of the changes we have made is to defer some system-hungry features, such as GIS cutting and timeline visualizations, until the project has finished loading. This means that these features will not be loaded immediately when you open your project, but instead will be loaded once the project has fully loaded. This helps to reduce the strain on your system and can improve overall performance. The last used view state will now automatically apply to any new models as they finish loading to ensure that projects with hundreds of models dont

In addition to the changes made to the loading process, we have also implemented a performance warning system in ToBe Builder. This warning will pop up if it detects that your scene's frame rate has dropped below 10 frames per second for an extended period of time. This can be an indication that your system is struggling to handle the project's complexity.

The performance warning popup gives you the opportunity to take action and improve your system's performance. It allows you to hide all models in your project, which can help to reduce the strain on your system. You can then progressively unhide the models and track down the offending model that is causing the performance drop.

By using this feature, you can identify and address the specific model that is causing the performance issue, rather than having to guess or make changes to your entire project. This can save you time and frustration while working on your project.