Trimble Data Transfer

Trimble Data Transfer is a practical and reliable application geared towards users who need to import data from various devices to their personal computer. When speaking about devices, we are referring to Trimble Series 4000 and R/5000 receivers, DiNi Digital Level and Trimble Survey Controller, to name a few.

After the necessary data is recognized, it can be then imported into the Trimble Geomatics Office, Trimble Total Control or Terramodel application - thus, civil engineers and surveyors can easily work with terrain models and alignment design.

Since the program uses a device definition in order to gather information about individual piece of equipment, you can make use of a simple, yet effective wizard that helps you to add a new device.

Once a device definition exists for a device, you can use Trimble Data Transfer in order to transfer data to or from it each time it is connected to your PC.

The wizard guides you throughout the entire steps of adding and configuring a new device definition for data transfer. After pressing the ‘Device’ button, you can easily click on the ‘New’ button, choose the type of device you want to create, set its port number (this depends on the model you want to create) and specify its name. You will notice that the list will change accordingly, displaying the newly created device definition.

Other important aspect worth mentioning is that the application supports various dialogs that you can make use of in order to manage and organize your data and files the way you want.

These dialogs help you to change the output file format, choose a coordinate system or zone to transfer to a GID datalogger, select the background files you want to transfer, as well as choose which waypoints you are interested in.

For instance, by accessing the ‘Devices dialog’ you are able to preview a list with all the devices you have defined so far in the application. Also, you can add, delete or rename them, and view their properties.

Another example is the ‘Receiving dialog’ that appears each time you begin the transferring process. It displays the current progress of the operation and once the files have been received, the ‘Converting dialog’ appears so you can choose the output format you want.

Either you are a civil engineer or simply an average user who need to quickly track waypoints and transfer information from various Trimble devices to your computer, Trimble Data Transfer is worth a shot.