Release 2.7.9 delivers major improvements to task linking, timeline performance and visualization. This update makes it easier to represent staged construction, work with complex schedules, and visualize large point cloud datasets.

Production Release 2.7.9 includes updates to the task timeline, and removes some existing constraints around BIM linking.

Previous versions of ToBe Builder before 2.6.2 prohibited the user from linking BIM element geometry to more than 1 task. This simplified the workflow and avoided visualisation conflicts, but it introduced overheads if users wanted to show multiple stages of work appearing sequentially for a given element. Such as Reo, Form and Pour stages of typical concrete construction.

The previous release of ToBe Builder (2.6.2) introduced allowing users to link multiple tasks to any item of geometry within the system. This would allow for example a user to link a single wall element to a task for reinforcement, formwork and pour stages of concrete construction without having to duplicate geometry as was required in the past.

This release of ToBe Builder (2.7.7) now also expands on this change to allow users to link geometry and objects (zones, paths, annotations, etc) to parent (WBS) tasks. Previously users were unable to link to these tasks, as they were un-selectable, and therefore could not be used in any of the workflows available to real leaf level tasks (those in P6 with an activity ID).

Firstly, we have merged the existing Gantt and WBS views, into a single combined view now called 'Gantt' This can be filtered to behave in the same manner as either of the previous views via the leaf tri-state toggle explained below.

The default “Wedding Cake” view remains unchanged compresses the tasks from the traditional Gantt view to save space. The Task you are working on is shown on the bottom bar and highlighted in green. Tasks in progress at the date-picked time are shown on the left panel. This view now also includes parent tasks if geometry has or other object have been linked to them.

Gantt View: creates a view that include a WBS hierarchy that can be expanded and collapsed to focus on specific sections of work.

ToBe Builder now also supports visualization of large point clouds with publisher‑defined styling, enabling high‑performance rendering of survey‑grade datasets as a Esri ArcGIS Point Cloud Scene Layer Service. This means that ArcGIS Pro can be used to publish a LAS or LAZ file as a online service, or SLPK local file that ToBe Builder can render and support. This allows the rendering of massive LiDAR‑based datasets optimized with hierarchical level‑of‑detail for efficient streaming within ToBe Builder.

In ToBe Builder Point Cloud Scene Layers are:

Note: Point symbology is controlled at the point of service publication from ArcGIS Pro, the current version of the Esri SDK does not yet support runtime modification of the point symbology.

ToBe Builder supports a large variety of ArcGIS Scene Layer Types.

The inspector path panel now included the same mount and dismount options as the mounts panel. This allows users to 'dismount' a resource from a path with a single click.

The inspector now includes an updated mesh details inspector, that responds to element selection in the scene. This allows you to understand how many triangles and vertex each part or selection of the B IM contains, so you can investigate poor geometry that may be degrading performance.

Generally scenes below 200 million triangles will perform well on a CAD spec PC as specified in our minimum requirements documentation.

ToBe Builder 2.7.9 made several improvements to the keyframe cut and paste system to speed up copy of sequences between activities. Namely;

ToBe Builder now benefits from substantial performance optimizations in how 3D Tiles content is streamed and rendered within Unity. Recent improvements to the ArcGIS Maps SDK have refined the data loading strategy for 3D Tiles, minimizing unnecessary data requests and prioritizing content closest to the camera.

This results in faster load times, lower memory usage, and smoother interaction with large 3D datasets. These enhancements also improve overall perceived performance, allowing complex environments—such as photogrammetric city models or large infrastructure datasets—to display more responsively within ToBe Builder’s real‑time scenes

To Update to the latest version of ToBe Builder you can either download and run the installer or download, extract and run ToBe directly from the zip archive file if you do not have local admin permission on your PC.

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