WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:04.640 I'm going back to the Navisworks video series. 00:04.640 --> 00:10.440 In this video, we'll be continuing with Timelineer and we'll be discussing how to attach a schedule 00:10.440 --> 00:12.200 coming from an external program. 00:12.200 --> 00:19.640 We'll be using the gatehouse.nwd model in your gatehouse folder, which is located underneath 00:19.640 --> 00:25.040 lesson 5. 00:25.040 --> 00:29.720 This gatehouse doesn't have any tasks assigned. 00:29.720 --> 00:31.760 It has no data sources. 00:31.760 --> 00:36.120 It is essentially a 3D model. 00:36.120 --> 00:42.240 If you use an external program like Primavera or Microsoft Project or any other programs to 00:42.240 --> 00:49.440 make your schedule, then you can export them either to a CSV file or in the case of Primavera 00:49.440 --> 00:54.080 MP3 MP6, you can leave them in their native formats. 00:54.080 --> 00:58.520 The same goes with Microsoft Project MPX. 00:58.520 --> 01:04.560 To attach an external file, you just go to the Data Sources tab, select Add, and then 01:04.560 --> 01:10.240 here are your choices of file formats. 01:10.240 --> 01:15.720 We're going to practice on the Microsoft Project MPX file. 01:15.800 --> 01:18.600 That file is located within the gatehouse folder. 01:18.600 --> 01:23.320 You'll see the only one mark MPX is called gatehouse underline Timelineer. 01:23.320 --> 01:24.840 Let's open that file. 01:24.840 --> 01:30.040 Whenever you select a file to attach to your model and it'll ask you which of the fields 01:30.040 --> 01:35.480 from the Navisworks file, which are located on the left hand side, do you want to attach 01:35.480 --> 01:38.160 to your external field? 01:38.160 --> 01:42.280 In our case, we really want to concentrate on the plan start date, plan end date, actual 01:42.280 --> 01:45.640 start and actual end. 01:45.640 --> 01:52.360 The way that you set up your scheduling software is to have some kind of label that is similar 01:52.360 --> 01:55.880 to what you want Navisworks to tie to. 01:55.880 --> 02:01.160 For this example, we have a plan start date and in the external project, the MPX, we have 02:01.160 --> 02:03.000 a plan start. 02:03.000 --> 02:04.800 Let's link those two fields together. 02:04.800 --> 02:11.040 It's the same thing with planned end. 02:11.040 --> 02:23.080 We have it labeled as planned finish and then actual start and actual end will be planned 02:23.080 --> 02:24.080 or actual finish. 02:24.080 --> 02:30.480 So in our Navisworks, we'll know where to find the plan start information and plan end 02:30.480 --> 02:33.320 and all of the other start information. 02:33.320 --> 02:40.560 You'll see once you hit OK that you have a data source and it tells you what type it 02:40.560 --> 02:42.800 is and it tells you it's location. 02:42.800 --> 02:48.120 Your location will vary from mine and then to tie into your project, you'll right click 02:48.120 --> 02:54.800 on the new data source and then go to rebuild task hierarchy. 02:54.800 --> 02:57.800 You may get some errors that there are some fields that are missing. 02:57.800 --> 03:00.280 That should be OK. 03:00.280 --> 03:08.400 You may have more information in your external file than you have to use in Navisworks. 03:08.400 --> 03:20.560 When you rebuild the hierarchy, that places this list of data into your task list. 03:20.560 --> 03:26.520 So on the left hand side, we have all of our tasks and on the right hand side, we have 03:26.520 --> 03:35.240 a schedule, a graphic schedule. 03:35.240 --> 03:37.760 Normally we have no geometry attached to these tasks. 03:37.760 --> 03:39.960 We just have the tasks themselves. 03:39.960 --> 03:48.240 Now, the way that gatehouse.nwd is organized, the layer is correspond with the items in 03:48.240 --> 03:56.440 our project scheduler and it makes it very easy if you have items in the model corresponding 03:56.440 --> 04:06.640 with item names in the schedule because you can just right click on the data source and 04:06.640 --> 04:13.440 then go down to auto add tasks for every topmost layer. 04:13.440 --> 04:17.880 What that does is to look at the topmost layer, which is the first layer underneath the 04:17.880 --> 04:26.000 gatehouse.nwd and then to look at each of the titles of our IDs or names. 04:27.000 --> 04:35.280 And if those names match, then it will assign the layer with the task. 04:35.280 --> 04:39.880 If you scroll down this list, now you'll see that some of these task entries have plans 04:39.880 --> 04:43.680 certain planned end dates. 04:43.680 --> 04:50.960 And then you'll see on the schedule that we have some tasks happening, in this case, 04:50.960 --> 04:53.400 week 25 and week 26. 04:53.400 --> 05:06.080 But you'll see if you scroll up, then it goes all the way back to week 0. 05:06.080 --> 05:13.240 You should also note that we don't have any actual starts and actual ends in our schedule. 05:13.240 --> 05:16.600 So our status bar is set to gray. 05:16.600 --> 05:20.720 You'll see this change if we have a difference between plan start and actual start planned 05:20.720 --> 05:24.200 end and actual end. 05:24.200 --> 05:36.760 Let's go over to simulate and press play. 05:36.760 --> 05:42.120 You'll see that each of the items that we have attached to the tasks are now popping 05:42.120 --> 06:02.720 in like we have configured. 06:02.720 --> 06:07.080 And if you run your simulation all the way to the end, you will have a complete model 06:07.080 --> 06:08.240 in model appearance.