Trimble SysQue Reviews & Insights

Score7 out of 10

8 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

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Pros

Efficient and helpful support: Users have consistently found the support provided by Trimble SysQue to be efficient and helpful. Many reviewers have mentioned that the responsive support team has been instrumental in keeping their jobs on schedule.

Easier fabrication of duct and pipe: Using Trimble SysQue has made fabricating duct and pipe easier for users. This valuable tool has been praised for simplifying the process, allowing companies to streamline their production processes.

Responsive development team: The development team behind Trimble SysQue has garnered positive feedback from users for being highly responsive to customer input. This commitment to improving the software based on user needs demonstrates a dedication to providing an optimal user experience.

Reviews

4 Reviews

SysQue plusses and minuses

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

May 24, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Trimble SysQue for drawing piping at a fabricable level, place hangers, and create point files. Their comprehensive library of content allows us to use a wide range of materials, connection methods, and hanger types. With BIM becoming more and more prevalent as a requirement for construction projects and the required LOD is higher and higher Trimble SysQue has been one of the tools that we have been using to achieve that.

Pros

The amount of content in their database library
The ability to change materials after piping has already been drawn with minimal rework
Hanger placement and point creation

Cons

The parameters for content is inconsistent from one fitting to another. As cloud spooling and automated cutters become more and more prevalent this becomes a problem to feed the right information to a fabrication shop or cutter and causes delays in production.
Trimble SysQue draws with generic fittings/pipe and then converts it to the selected system. The processing time for those fittings can be quite long sometimes.
Thread-o-lets do not work correctly a good portion of the time. When detailing a mechanical room this is a huge problem.

Likelihood to Recommend

For drawing plumbing where you are usually not needing any kind of taps it does really well. Once you become familiar with it, you can draw underground really quickly. Their water closet carrier families are great! Being able to draw a restroom skid with such a high level of detail is a definite plus. Also, being able to create point files easily since their hangers, floor drains, and cleanouts have the points embedded in them. For a small BIM department I think Trimble SysQue is a good option. They manage the database and you can send a request in for more content if it is needed. For larger BIM departments or people that are doing cloud spooling with Stratus or MSuite it becomes more problematic especially on the mechanical side with needing to use taps and the functionality of them being less than stellar. Larger BIM departments are usually able to have a person manage their database internally and that helps keep the content parameters consistent. Most MEP Fabrication content that I have used does very well with taps and the piping is able to be run quickly and does not need to be processed.

Verified User

Supervisor (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Trimble SysQue

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

July 6, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Trimble SysQue allows us to design and coordinate mechanical, sheet metal, electrical, and plumbing systems using Revit, with the added bonus of native Revit pipe, valve, and fitting families. It also allows us to create spool drawings for our fabrication shop to pre-fabricate piping assemblies for our projects. SysQue also ties us directly to our Trimble Total Station for a hanger layout in the field.

Pros

It allows Contractors to use Revit with Spooling functions.
The database of millions of native Revit Families.
Excellent support from Trimble.

Cons

The Spooling feature could always use improvements.
More tie into the estimating software.

Likelihood to Recommend

Trimble SysQue is a perfect fit for our organization, being a Design/Build contractor. We use it to design, coordinate, and create Pre-Fabricated assemblies. We perform a lot of IPD Projects and, coupled with BIM 360 Design, it makes us efficient.

William Cameron

BIM Manager in Engineering at Arden Engineering Constructors, LLC (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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SysQue Review

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

July 2, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SysQue saves us a tremendous amount of time starting up a project because it allows us to use the engineers' Revit model as a base so we don't have to start from scratch for each job.

Pros

Creates fabricatable parts inside of Revit
Allows us to export hanger points for shooting with a robot on site
Saves us time getting to coordination by allowing us to use engineers' model as a base.

Cons

SysQue doesn't switch between elbow types on the fly very well so if you are processing a run with mixed elbow types in it, there can be some minor issues.

Likelihood to Recommend

SysQue is well suited for any company that uses Revit. It is especially useful for those who use Revit and also can get engineers Revit models.

Rance Pearson

BIM Manager in Engineering at Bright Sheet Metal (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

A great tool for ANY Mechanical Contractor

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

June 30, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Sysque to create detailed piping models, hanger placement, point files for robotic total station layout, and spooling for fabrication. Having a library of fitting, piping, valves, and hangers allows us to create models that go into minute details and achieve a level of accuracy that has not been possible in the not so distant past. Like the saying goes, "aim small, miss small." Construction always has hiccups that are unforeseen in the modeling environment, but with the capability to get into the level of detail with SysQue, we can try to avoid more mishaps than we were able to before.

Pros

The content library is vast.
The support team is very responsive when problems arise.
In the latest update, the spooling is more efficient.

Cons

The ability to erase points that have been written to a TFL file would be a great addition.
Fitting to fitting placement can act up from time to time.
I think that the spooling can continue to improve.

Likelihood to Recommend

From my experience, ANY mechanical contractor can benefit from SysQue. We use so many different types of material, sizes, and fittings that the content for these items is a HUGE positive. In speaking with electrical contractors, they can benefit from SysQue, but the materials and sizes that they typically use do not vary nearly as much as a mechanical contractor's does, so for them to make the switch is a little harder to justify.

Verified User

Supervisor (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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SysQue plusses and minuses

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

May 24, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

The amount of content in their database library
The ability to change materials after piping has already been drawn with minimal rework
Hanger placement and point creation

Cons

The parameters for content is inconsistent from one fitting to another. As cloud spooling and automated cutters become more and more prevalent this becomes a problem to feed the right information to a fabrication shop or cutter and causes delays in production.
Trimble SysQue draws with generic fittings/pipe and then converts it to the selected system. The processing time for those fittings can be quite long sometimes.
Thread-o-lets do not work correctly a good portion of the time. When detailing a mechanical room this is a huge problem.

Likelihood to Recommend

Verified User

Supervisor (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience