We use Siteworks. The ‘native’ output is a .SPJ file. The other day a young surveyor on job adjacent to ours needed some information that I had in my controller (from an as-built). In order to give it to him I had to do it via computer as he needed a dxf (or dwg) for his software.
It got me thinking. Is there any way to quickly/easily change the .SPJ to another format or is it so proprietary that you need TBC to convert them?
There is a create DXF, DWG, TTM output from Siteworks itself that does that conversion directly on the controller. No need to use TBC.
One of the Design Features of SCS900 / Siteworks was to use open formats like CSV, DXF, TTM, XLS for transferring data around easily - while those formats cannot do Alignments or Corridors (needs VCL or PRO or LandXML or IFC) they work well for Points and Lines and surfaces etc. exchange.
SPJ is a proprietary format, I know that there is an SPJ viewer tool that Trimble uses in development, or you can read all the data out in the Excel Report formats and manipulate it from there into a DXF or CSV file output - I am sure that writers / readers could be written on those to create any file formats from a spreadsheet data file - I just mocked one up that reads a spreadsheet of values and converts it to a simple DXF file containing Points and Lines using our upcoming Cloud Services Solution (Dimensions Release) - I have asked our developer to see if she can make what I did run on our Cloud Service Platform - that will give a really simple solution to turn CSV or Spreadsheet data into DXF data. We can already do that for KML / KMZ / GPX formats for Google Earth and Google MyMaps.
Alan
Thanks Alan. I’d forgotten the export option…
Marshall
Easy to do my friend!
Something about Cannot See the Wood for the Trees!
Alan