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On site

The model comes with you, right up onto the roof.

Down on site the drawing already blew about in the wind, and up on the roof itself it was little use to you. Field-Viewer puts your digital site drawings and the 3D model together on a tablet and takes them up with you: onto the roof, the scaffold or the assembly position. If a dimension is missing up there, you measure it yourself. Not sure about the assembly order of a prefab element? Tap it and the right detail is there straight away.

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A rugged tablet with corner bumpers, showing the section through roof truss S-04: two rafters of 45 by 175 on wall plates with the wall heads below them, a strut at 60 per cent of the height and a king post up against the ridge. A point has been tapped on the left wall plate and on the ridge; the dimension line on the right gives the measured ridge height of 2 810 millimetres, an angle arc at the left foot the roof pitch of 38 degrees. At the top it reads truss S-04 with offline and a crossed-out cloud on the right, at the bottom left of the panel the line syncs once connected, and along the bottom the buttons measure (active), layers, photo and report.TRUSS S-04OFFLINEROOF STRUCTURE38°2 810SYNCS ONCE CONNECTEDMEASURELAYERSPHOTOREPORT

Digital site drawings: a day on site

A day on site rarely goes to plan, but that changes nothing about the model. Vertex BD, Revit, ArchiCAD or an IFC export: on a tablet Field-Viewer works as a full IFC viewer, from the first dimension to the final check.

A flow diagram of a day on site, with three moments on the same rugged tablet. On the left, up on the roof: the section through roof truss S-04 of roofing firm Peeters, two rafters of 45 by 175 on wall plates, a strut and a king post; at the left foot the roof pitch of 38 degrees, and between two tapped points, the left wall plate and the ridge, the dimension line gives the ridge height of 2 810 millimetres measured on the spot. At the bottom the measure button is on. A pipe labelled on the roof runs to the middle screen, at assembly: four prefab wall elements of 2 400 by 2 700 in a row, the first two are standing, the third has been tapped and lights up, the fourth is still a dotted line; an arrow above the row gives the assembly order, at the bottom left the timber frame layer is on and cladding off, and at the top it reads assembly · step 3 of 4, with the select button on. A second pipe labelled at assembly runs to the right-hand screen, at the end of the day: the same truss section, but the version chip reads offline with a crossed-out cloud and the screen shows 3 measurements · 1 report and waiting to sync, with the report button on. Below it a pipe labelled sync once connected runs to a small screen of the drawing office, Vertex BD on version 8 · sync, where those same 3 measurements and 1 report arrive.ON THEROOFATASSEMBLYSYNC ONCECONNECTEDPEETERS ROOFINGV7TRUSS S-04 · SECTION38°2 810MEASURELAYERSREPORTDE SMET HOUSEV73D MODELASSEMBLY · STEP 3 OF 4TIMBER FRAMECLADDINGSELECTLAYERSREPORTPEETERS ROOFINGOFFLINETRUSS S-04 · SECTION3 MEASUREMENTS · 1 REPORTWAITING TO SYNCMEASURELAYERSREPORTVERTEX BDV8 · SYNCDRAWING OFFICE3 MEASUREMENTS · 1 REPORT
A flow diagram of a day on site, with three moments on the same rugged tablet. On the left, up on the roof: the section through roof truss S-04 of roofing firm Peeters, two rafters of 45 by 175 on wall plates, a strut and a king post; at the left foot the roof pitch of 38 degrees, and between two tapped points, the left wall plate and the ridge, the dimension line gives the ridge height of 2 810 millimetres measured on the spot. At the bottom the measure button is on. A pipe labelled on the roof runs to the middle screen, at assembly: four prefab wall elements of 2 400 by 2 700 in a row, the first two are standing, the third has been tapped and lights up, the fourth is still a dotted line; an arrow above the row gives the assembly order, at the bottom left the timber frame layer is on and cladding off, and at the top it reads assembly · step 3 of 4, with the select button on. A second pipe labelled at assembly runs to the right-hand screen, at the end of the day: the same truss section, but the version chip reads offline with a crossed-out cloud and the screen shows 3 measurements · 1 report and waiting to sync, with the report button on. Below it a pipe labelled sync once connected runs to a small screen of the drawing office, Vertex BD on version 8 · sync, where those same 3 measurements and 1 report arrive.ON THEROOFATASSEMBLYSYNC ONCECONNECTEDPEETERS ROOFINGV7TRUSS S-04 · SECTION38°2 810MEASURELAYERSREPORTDE SMET HOUSEV73D MODELASSEMBLY · STEP 3 OF 4TIMBER FRAMECLADDINGSELECTLAYERSREPORTPEETERS ROOFINGOFFLINETRUSS S-04 · SECTION3 MEASUREMENTS · 1 REPORTWAITING TO SYNCMEASURELAYERSREPORTVERTEX BDV8 · SYNCDRAWING OFFICE3 MEASUREMENTS · 1 REPORT

Early morning

Take a dimension on site, without waiting for the drawing office

The rafters are in place, but the section up on the roof is missing just that one connection dimension. In the past you would stop the work for it and wait for a call back from the drawing office. With Field-Viewer you tap the point in the model yourself and read off the dimension, up on the roof, in the time you would otherwise still have been on the phone.

Around midday

The assembly order of the prefab elements

On a delivery with several prefab walls the assembly order is no side issue: place the wrong element first, and the rest no longer fits. Tap a panel in the model and you see the detail that goes with it straight away, including the penetrations and connections you would otherwise only discover as you lift it.

And when the signal drops

The model keeps working without a connection

On some sites there is barely any signal: a shed without wifi, a new development with no mast nearby yet. Field-Viewer keeps showing the model and keeps recording measurements without a connection. As soon as there is a signal again, everything syncs to the drawing office by itself, without you having to look after it.

Would you rather work from an IFC file than from a direct Vertex BD link? On a tablet Field-Viewer serves just as well as an IFC viewer, with the same three moments above.

Rain, gloves and a handrail: the screen keeps doing its job

On site the weather decides, not the office. It has just started raining, your gloves are on, and up on the scaffold you need a hand for the rail or the harness. Field-Viewer is built for that: large, high-contrast buttons you can hit with work gloves on, a screen that stays readable in harsh backlight on a roof pitch, and a tablet in a sturdy case that survives a drop when it does slip out of your hand.

  • Large buttons
  • Readable in bright light
  • Sturdy case
A rugged tablet with four corner bumpers. The screen shows the section through roof truss S-04: two rafters on wall plates, a strut and a king post, with the dimension line of 2 810 millimetres for the ridge height on the right; at the top the chip OFFLINE with a crossed-out cloud, at the bottom three wide buttons: measure (active), layers and report. Three leader lines run from the device to three captions: from the bottom left corner bumper to "sturdy case · drop resistant", from the measure button to "buttons for gloves", and from the middle of the screen to "high contrast in bright light".TRUSS S-04OFFLINE2 810MEASURELAYERSREPORTSTURDY CASE · DROP RESISTANTBUTTONS FOR GLOVESHIGH CONTRAST IN BRIGHT LIGHT

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