Tag: Trimble SketchUp

Dealers

Product Roundup: New machines and tech from Caterpillar, Kobelco, Trimble and Ditch Witch

Cat intros Grade Control 3D for its small dozer lineup (VIDEO) Cat’s Grade Control 3D has now migrated to the smaller dozers in its lineup, the D3K2, D4K2 and D5K2. “This system is now the same from the D3 to the D8 size,” says Joel Fritts, market professional, small track type tractors, Caterpillar. The system […]

November 28, 2016

Technology

With Trimble’s HoloLens SketchUp Viewer, you can walk through a building as you design it

Alongside the numerous improvements announced at the annual Dimensions conference for the company’s field survey solutions and SketchUp design software aimed at compact equipment, Trimble also announced that it’s working to bring SketchUp to Microsoft’s HoloLens virtual reality goggles. Trimble is working in tandem with Microsoft to enable teams to collaborate on drawings with the ability to view the […]

November 21, 2016

Machine control

Trimble intros several updates to field survey tools, SketchUp for use with compact equipment

If you do a lot of work with skid steers, compact track loaders and mini-excavators, Trimble has developed a suite of products that will enable you to do many of the same things as contractors who run big equipment equipped with GPS machine control, but with less hardware and at a lower cost. “Customers have seen the […]

November 17, 2016

Technology

Trimble demos Google Project Tango apps that can see through walls, make editable 3D maps with the wave of a tablet

Glass is by far the most well-known hardware project still in development at Google. But it’s another project that likely has more opportunity for meaningful impact on the construction industry: Project Tango. Seeing that opportunity, the software teams at Trimble are already hard at work developing apps for Tango with pretty exciting capabilities. Using a […]

June 30, 2014