Lead or participate in real-time model reviews using Live Collaboration in Trimble Connect. Learn how to interact with participants, manage your view, and control session settings.
Interact with Collaborators
You can track the movements of other participants or lead a session by controlling the camera view:
- Follow a collaborator: To follow another collaborator's camera movements, select their avatar icon
in the side pane. While you are following them, their profile picture is highlighted in blue. To stop following, select the profile picture. - Enforce following: To force all other participants to follow your camera movements, select your own avatar. A megaphone icon
displays next to your avatar when you enforce following. To stop the forced following, select your avatar again. - Manage avatars: When collaborators use perspective projection, their avatars display as a head with a hard hat symbol. To hide these avatars, select
. To make them visible again, select 
.Note: These avatars do not appear in orthographic projects.
Managing Model Visibility and Privacy
Use these controls to manage what you and others see in the 3D view:
- Private space: To hide your model changes from others, select Enter private space
. To exit and make your changes visible, select 
. - Show or hide models: Select
next to a model's name to remove it from your view; to make it visible, select 
. - Fit the model to the 3D view: To center a specific model in your 3D window, select
next to the model name and select Fit to view.
Managing the Session
- Invite others: Select
and share the URL with invitees by pasting into meeting invitations or into chat applications such as MS Teams. Note: To join a session, participants must be members of the Trimble Connect project. - Leave a session: Select
to exit the current session. - Return to a session: Select
next to the active session's name. - Delete a session: Select
next to the session name.
Functionality Comparison of Supported Collaboration Tools
| Functionality | Trimble Connect | Tekla Structures | Autodesk Revit1 |
|---|---|---|---|
| View following | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Add extra models to the session | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| BCF Topics support | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Markups from markup tool | Shared | Shared | Not shared |
| Annotations | Shared | Shared | |
| Clip planes | Shared | Shared2 | |
| Clip boxes | Shared | Shared3 | |
| Selection of parts | Shared | Shared |
- Install the Trimble Connect Revit Add-in.
- Not supported in Tekla Structures 2024.
- Supported only in Tekla Structures 2026.
Feature status definitions
- Yes
- The feature is available for use within the specific application during a session.
- Shared
- The action or object is synchronized in real-time across all participants' views, regardless of the application they are using.
Suggest Improvements
To help improve the tool, please visit Connect Labs and leave your feedback.