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Tobe Twin — August 2026

View-state timezone and Save / Apply, matching work-zone colours, journey rows, per-project cache, and timeline selection.

Written by Ken Panitz

This August release of Tobe Twin tightens the 4D Viewer: view states get a timezone and Save / Apply, work zones share one colour, journeys stay readable, and Tobe Projects can be cached one at a time.

View states

Dynamic view states now store a timezone. Set it to the site zone (for example Asia/Kuala Lumpur). Leave timezone as none if you need the previous behaviour.

The view state menu has Save and Apply, so you can store a state and use it without leaving the menu.

Work zones and paths

Work zone colours now match across the map, the timeline, the inspector work-span tab, and the visualised path. The colour comes from the category area.

A work-span path that crosses a zone border keeps the previous zone’s colour on that leg. There is no clean way to switch colour exactly at the border, so that behaviour stays.

Devices and timeline

  • Devices before the first timeline frame are treated as inactive.

  • Selecting a device in the scene or the device menu scrolls the timeline so that device is at the top of the visible rows.

Journeys

A busy journey is split across extra rows so the path stays readable. Labels show site and time on each stop.

Tobe Projects

You can activate or deactivate a Tobe Project from the menu. Selecting a project shows a summary in the inspector, including what is cached.

Remove Download and Refresh Download apply to that project only. GIS layers now set correctly after a Tobe Project download.

Also in this release

  • Work-span aggregation now includes cumulative distance, available in Twin as total distance in metres.

  • GIS menu thumbnails and a 50% default opacity for some GIS layers.

  • Filter for records with alarms only, and a time-speed multiplier on timeline playback.

  • Time-picker crash on very large ranges is fixed. Default view-state handling is more reliable.

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