So I've been taking a construction project scheduling with Primavera 6 class, and so far all my practice has been in class. Our teacher told us that we would be able to download Primavera 6 for free and you can keep and use it for free (Oracle's fee ...
Hello all, could someone please help me get my histograms exported to an excel document? I am confused as to how this process works exactly. I've created a monthly costs and project s curve histograms. I need these to be exported to an excel document...
Dear Sirs / Fellows,Please let me know that how Manhours will be transformed into duration of activities? I have set of activities having manhours per unit basis. e.g. For Example:Armoured Cable #14, 2 Conductor, Solid Copper Unit of Time: "Hours";Un...
Hi,I am a planning engineer working on Highways projects. At tender stage I create phasing diagrams to accompany the programme. I was just wondering what software people use to create their phasing plans. I have previously just used Paint or Word to ...
Hi,I am looking to improve my skills as a collaborative planning facilatator.Can anyone recommend any literature / training / advice to help me with this? Kind regards,Andrew
Hi guys, I am having difficulties installing P6 on my machine.I seem to be doing everything as per the instructions from the internet and have enough computing space on my laptop.After running everything I get an error saying ''P6 Install was interru...
I am doing levelling, in P6. whenever I am delaying any activity in "Resource usage spreadsheet" by shifting the particular overallocated resource to next possible day my original duration for activity changes drastically. This duration is logically ...
Hello Everybody,I am new here in this platform and i need to ask some questions and i would appreciate if you answer my questions. I have choosen my career as a planning engineer in building side. I have done BSc Civil Engineering and then Masters in...
I'm interested in a career in planning, but am also wondering if they can work in many industries? I know they work in construction and oil and gas. But what other industries? I'm interested in manufacturing, automotive, aerospace, renewables and oth...
Dear all,I need urgent help to draft a chart demonstrating type of work (with diferrent color) over the chainage of the road (x axis), and time (y axis). Basis data is construction log that contains in columns those information: Date, from chainage, ...
In various literature I see two different kind of schedule levels. Level 0-4 or Level 1-5.Which definition is commonly used ?What would be the appropriate levels for a turnaround schedule and could someone give me some specific examples for a turnaro...
HelloI´m installed Primavera P6 16.2 with SQLServer 2012. When I try to open the BD in SQLite its works ok, but when I try to open the BD created througth the intaller dbsetup.bat, I received the error Exception EAccessviolation in module PM.exe.Plea...
Hello Everyone,I need Primavera P6 Xer files of complete buidling construction project activities, including all relationships and resources loaded.Please send me the whole project which includes all activities from start to end ,even if somebody has...
Everytime I save asta PP programme copy of BAK file created on the same folder. How do I stop this? Any help appreciated
Is it possible to create a weighted % complete column in MSP?I have to put a weighted % against different disciplines within the schedule however I'm not really sure where to start. So I have for example:Engineering 10%Procurement 10%Structural 25% A...
Dear All,Please tell me about the requirements of doing planning of a construction projects. I mean if we have to do planning of a construction project (lets say Hospital project) what documents or input we need at this stage to start planning from s...
Hi I am newbie to planning. There is a column added for TIME RISK ALLOWANCE in my NEC program. What is TRA? How do I add this column ? Any help appreciated
HelloI am just starting out in planning and I don't have much experience when it comes to estimating durations. My question is, is it best practice to use whole days when inputting activity durations? I understand that having fraction or decimals of ...
HelloI have a couple of questions regarding the calendar within P6.1) If you are working on a project which starts with only a day shift then so far into the project a night shift is introduced, do you need to reflect this night shift work in the cal...
Hi all, I Have problem after importing project to primavera p6 17.7 , everything is ok except the resources names become and appear in a starnge symbols, tried to change fonts from table font and row option , but no changes, Also changed the windows ...