PowerFab: Set Up Project Files Integration
You can connect your project to PowerFab & Trimble to sync your project files.
To connect your project, you need to proceed with the following:
- Step 1: PowerFab Admin Set-Up (required once)
- Step 2: Enable PowerFab within FabStation (required once)
- Step-3: Connect your FabStation Project to Trimble (required once for every new project)
If you already completed Step 1, and connect your project to PowerFab & Trimble click here.
Step 1: PowerFab Admin Set-Up
- This step will be done only once for the whole company.
- You have to be an Admin in PowerFab to complete it.
You will need to Create a FabStation user within PowerFab and grand it some permissions to acces the data required for integration. For that, please proceed with the following:
1. In the PowerFab application, open Administration from the File menu.
2. Go to the External Users tab.

3. Click on the New button to create an external user.

4. To fill the form, please use the following values:
- Username = Fabstation_<CompanyName>
(Note: < CompanyName > with be your organization name with no space and letters only. If multiple words are present, initials can be used in ALL CAPS.) - Group = Fabstation_Tekla,
- First Name = First name of your preference
- Last name = Last name of your preference

6. You will see a popup to ask whether an email should be generated with the password.
– If Yes is selected, a new email will be opened with the username and password.
– If No is selected, a password will appear in a pop-up.


In both cases (email or pop-up), a one-time password will be visible on the screen, as shown below. Please make sure to save it.
Within the next few steps you will be setting up FabStation User Permissions to make sure that the data is transferring properly.
7 Next, click on the Created User and then select the “Remote Permissions” button, as shown below.

8 In the Remote Permissions window, please:
8.1 Select “Allow Remote Login”
8.2 Click “All” button at the bottom, and make sure that “All” in Production Control Jobs is selected.
8.3 Uncheck all the Delete Permissions, such as
- Delete Drawing
- Delete Revision in Drawings
- Delete in Productionstatus
- Delete Load in Shipping Status.
8.4 Save Remove Permissions.

That’s it. As the user is set, you can proceed with connecting it to your FabStation Company account to enable integration.
Step 2: Enable PowerFab within FabStation
Please note while PowerFab integration is in BETA, this step is not available for users. You will need to contact FabStation Support if you would like us to enable PowerFab for you.
This step will be done only once for the whole company.
You need to be an Admin in FabStation to proceed with this step.
- Please login into FabStation WebPortal.
- Navigate to Account > Edit Company.

3. Scroll down to the bottom of the screen and click on the toggle next to PowerFab to enable it.

4. Then add the user details that you got from PowerFab:
- FabStation User ID = PowerFab Username
- FabStation Password = Poassword automatically created in PowerFab.
- IP Address = Public IP of the server in which the owerfab has been hosted (consult your IT department if you are not such what to use here)
5. Once that is done, click on “Connect user to PowerFab”.
The status next to PowerFab logo should change from Not Connected to Connected.

If you clicked on "Connect user to PowerFab" and the status is still "Not Connected" contact support. Before that, please make sure that your User ID, Password is IP were added correctly.
Once the PowerFab is Connected, please sroll to the bottom of the page and click on “Update Company Info” to dave the changes.
Step 3: Connect your FabStation Project to Trimble
You will need to do this step every time you connect a new FabStation project to your PowerFab\Trimble project.