Syncro

Syncro

Project Constructor:

 

Synchro Project Constructor provides 4D construction visualization, project scheduling, advanced risk management, synchronization with 3D design changes, supply chain management and cost allocation for comprehensive virtual construction simulation.

Synchro Project Constructor enables alternative scheduling options, resource allocation and time and cost savings to be evaluated.

Use Synchro Project Constructor to define, visualize, present and communicate on what, when and where work is occurring on your project.

Project Constructor works as a stand-alone workstation managing the project model independently and is dedicated to the Google SketchUp *.skp 3D file format.

Synchro Project Constructor is available for $990 or $825 each for the software plus its required first year maintenance fee of $165.

Synchro Project Constructor can be upgraded to Synchro Professional our fully featured, collaborative solution enabling the connection to Synchro Server and our comprehensive project team environment.

Project Constructor and Synchro Professional, for connecting with full functionality to the entire project team, can synchronize the elegant 3D models of Google SketchUp with project scheduling and management to bring Google SketchUp into the 4th Dimension by adding Time.

We provide a User Manual, including comprehensive help files and weekly Webinars for three different levels of BIM user experience.

We invite you to request a 10-day, free trial license of the latest version of Synchro.

Task scheduling and status control

  • What if scenario with side-by-side comparitive analysis
  • Resources management
  • Multiple baselines to compare actual performance against your plan
  • Progress tracking
  • Rescheduling options
  • Critical path planning and analysis
If 80% of all we perceive is visual, Synchro is the perfect planning environment to exploit the power of visualisation and construction simulation. Synchro significantly enhances the task sequencing of the Gantt chart with vivid time scaled 3D views of the corresponding solid model at the same point in time.

 

Recommended Minimum Requirements

Supported Operating Systems

  • Microsoft Windows 7
  • Microsoft Windows XP Home and Professional
  • Microsoft Windows 2003 All Editions
  • Microsoft Windows Vista (32 and 64 Bit Modes)

Synchro Professional:

The Synchro Professional 4.3 Release provides complete construction visualisation, project scheduling, advanced risk management, synchronisation with design changes, supply chain management and cost allocation for comprehensive, virtual construction simulation.

Synchro Professional 4.3 enables consideration of alternative scheduling options, resource allocation, and time and cost savings to be evaluated.

Use Synchro Professional 4.3 to define and communicate to your entire construction project delivery team what, when and where work is occurring on your project.

Synchro Professional 4.3 can work either standalone – managing the project model independently – or in combination with Synchro Server in managing collaborative access to a centralised project model.

Here is a brief movie clip on YouTube that you may want to view as an introduction to the capabilities of Synchro.

To gain a better sense, you can preview this brief YouTube movie clip on 4D BIM for Delivery.

Where is Synchro Professionalat work and how?

To see Synchro at The Glass Shard at London Bridge, simply click on this YouTube Video Clip.

For a more detailed Training view, we offer weekly Webinars for three different levels of BIM user experience.

We provide a User Manual, including comprehensive help files and a downloadable, self-taught tutorial with sample 3D and scheduling files.

We invite you to request a 10-day, free trial license of the latest version of Synchro.

Functionality Planning

Synchro provides a full range of planning features:
  • Task status control Task sequencing options
  • Resource management
  • Multiple baselines to compare actual performance against your plan
  • Progress tracking
  • Rescheduling options
  • Critical path analysis.

Synchro can create risk buffers for chains of activities to protect the critical path and avoid unnecessary rescheduling as well as reduce or mitigate identified risks.

Design

Synchro resource management includes the 3D representation of material, equipment, human and space resources. The planning process can now also effectively manage task locations. Moreover, these resource representations can be synchronised with revised CAD data, as it becomes available.

Cost

Resources and tasks can be assigned fixed or variable costs, which are then displayed for selected individual or a hierarchical range of tasks, and are reported for Earned Value Analysis.

Communication

80% of all we perceive is visual: Synchro exploits the power of visualisation. Synchro significantly enhances the task sequencing of the Gantt Chart with vivid time-based 3D views of the corresponding solid model at the same point in time.

Multiple 3D views can be presented for clarity and each can be modified interactively. This means you can improve the delivery of projects through a better understanding of site conditions and the implications of logistical plans. You can visualise and evaluate the impact of alternative construction sequences and avoid conflicts in assigned work locations.

Use Synchro to clarify and agree on proposed schedules with the entire delivery team, and interested parties, by sharing video simulations generated from the 3D views.

Interoperability

Import and export project schedules in Microsoft Office Project Standard XML file format, and import, export and synchronize with Primavera™ and Asta Powerproject.

Import and synchronize with DWF, DWG, HSF, CATIA V5, SolidWorks formats and Google SketchUp. Import from Bentley MicroStation™ and 3D Studio Max™ via an HSF export plug-in.

Activity costs can be imported and a range of actual cost data can be accommodated through customised file interfaces.

Reporting

Generate clear and unambiguous documentation for presentations of tenders and proposals, site team meetings and management review via:

  • Task list and Gantt Chart
  • 3D views, optionally red-lined
  • Resource and task usage
  • Earned Value Analysis
  • Line of Balance view
  • Audio and Video AVI output

Deployment

  • Synchro Professional can create and modify standalone/local project files.
  • In combination with Synchro Server, Synchro Professional can also provide concurrent access to a shared project model to enable efficient and synchronised ongoing collaborative planning and problem solving.
  • Synchro can handle offline working, when there's a temporary network communications failure, and the submission of clashing instructions from multiple contributors like the modification of a task only just deleted by a previous transaction.

Synchronisation

  • Autodesk design file updates on import
  • Bentley design file updates on import
  • Primavera API import and export
  • Asta API import and export (Asta Powerproject version11)
  • Delivery team collaborative activities
  • Supply chain collaborative activities Synchro Express

Recommended Minimum Requirements

  • 3.0 GHz Dual Core Processor
  • 2 GB of RAM
  • 512 MB graphics card
    (OpenGL compatible)
  • 700 MB hard disk space for installation files
    plus 1 GB for each typical project
  • 1280 x 1024 screen resolution
  • Network connectivity: supported graphics card and driver levels are at: http://developer.hoops3d.com

Supported Operating System

  • Microsoft Windows 7
  • Microsoft Windows XP Home and Professional
  • Microsoft Windows 2003 All Editions
  • Microsoft Windows Vista (32 and 64 Bit Modes)

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