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Hi All,
I have been tasked to figure out the simplest way to create a building floor layout plan that works in conjunction with P6 so that activities like "remove transformers" will take the layout of the transformer off the drawing and "install transformers" will put them back. Or "install scaffold" would show as a scaled square on the layout drawing to show that area is being used. I am somewhat familiar with 3D scheduling and the lilnk with Navisworks however we do not have Navisworks so I'm looking for maybe a link between Autocad or even a more simple drawing program.
Any suggestions are GREATLY appreciated!!
Heather
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Glad you found it useful. Good luck.
Also a do-it-yourselfer here and I've tried both the power point and visio path however it's as you said - very labour intensive and this is a massive 4 year, lots of moving parts project that we just would not have the resources to manage. I do like the looks of the link you sent - just emailed them. Thanks for the link!
Thanks for the suggestions - I will look into both our your suggestions and update if I've created something!
Thanks for the suggestions - I will look into both our your suggestions and update if I've created something!
Also check out Hito's Flipbook: https://hito.management/services/flipbook/
As a do-it-yourselfer, I've done these things in the past with animated PowerPoints, but they quickly breakdown and get more labor-intensive as the schedule evolves. For the next one, I'd be looking to a) drop the layout into an MS Visio file, b) parse the P6 schedule into MS Excel, then c) use vba (a macro hosted by Excel or Visio) to create and manipulate shapes based on the dates. I imagine this is similar to what Flipbook does.
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Look up a package called Phase Manger: https://www.phasemanager.com/en/ - but I can't seem to get their English site version working. There is a partner of theirs in Germany who may also be able to help: https://planavista.de/en/construction-phase-maps-with-phase-manager-animated-samples/
Let Thorsten know I referred you!
Email: PPadmin@planningplanet.com
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