Where it goes further than ordinary tools
Specific things you can do on day one, grouped by the job they help with.
Sets that do the work
Selection, search and phasing, in one set list.
Selection sets become search sets
Pick the properties that identify the objects (the Pour ID, say), see how many it finds, and create a search set. It then follows the model when it is re-converted or revised. Do it for one set or for a whole folder at once.
Search sets run again on whatever is loaded
Conditions on any property: is any of (with value counts), contains, starts or ends with, regex, greater or less than, between, has or has no value. Match all or any.
Freeze a search as a selection set
Keep today's matches as a fixed list, held by model name and GlobalId so it survives reloading or re-converting a model.
Play a folder of sets like phasing
The sets in a folder become steps. Play, pause, step back and forward or jump to the start or end, on the same shortcuts as the 4D timeline. Each step shows the sets so far and hides the rest.
Eyes, collections and the space bar
Each set and folder has an eye that hides or shows its objects in 3D. Select several sets with Shift or Ctrl and toggle them together with the space bar. Choose which buttons show on each row.
Step through sets with the arrow keys
Walk a list of sets one at a time to review each group of objects in turn.
Fix the model, not just report it
Model checks that repair what they find.
IDS checks with linked patches
Check against IDS files, then fix the failures. A patch can reclassify elements from a property, set a property value, pad numbers with leading zeros, or name elements after their pour ID.
Rebuild the spatial structure
One site, a building per unit, a storey per level at the right elevation, each element contained in its storey, storeys in level order.
Merge buildings that an export split
Several exported zones become one building named properly, with matching storeys merged and the emptied ones removed.
Preview before you apply
See what a patch would change and what it leaves alone. Applying writes a new _FIXED IFC with a change log and loads it in place, keeping its placement. The original file is never changed.
Rules IDS cannot express
Custom rules count things ("only one building") and compare one value with another ("the name equals the pour ID").
Edit properties on the selection
Queue several property edits, then write them in one go. Shared values are copied, never changed in place, so other elements keep theirs.
Select all failing
Jump from a failed check straight to the offending objects in 3D, or export every failing element to CSV.
Clashes and touching
Geometry relationships, kept ready.
Within a model, across models
Every model against itself and against every other, in the background, stored in the project so it is ready next time.
What sits below, above or beside
Select the elements touching a selection in a direction, and click again to go one step further, for support and sequence questions.
Exact or quick
Test the real triangles, or bounding boxes only. Set the tolerance for what still counts as contact.
Align first, then check
Place each model in project axes, with presets, and clashes use that placement.
Seeing the sequence
4D that you can shape and share.
Link by rules
Pair a task field with an object property. Live counts show how many tasks and objects are linked, and what is left over.
Appearance profiles
Install, remove or maintain, with colour and opacity per stage and growth animations: drop, slide in, bottom to top, lift up, slide away.
Planned beside actual
Split the view to compare planned and actual, or two projects with the slider.
Labels and tags
A Navisworks-style date label on a 3-by-3 grid, and callouts on objects built from task and object properties.
Video made in the app
Step the timeline over a date range and record PNG images or an MP4, encoded in the browser, with label, tags, progress bar and a tasks table.
Navisworks both ways
Export a TimeLiner pack from the link groups, and import steps from a TimeLiner CSV.
Saved views and fly-throughs
Camera, visibility, colours, section planes and style saved together, plus camera fly-throughs on a smooth path.
Programme analysis
What the scheduler alone does not tell you.
Resource levelling
Demand per trade against capacity, with the before-levelling total as a grey line. Level within float or allow a later finish, then add the result as a new programme to compare or play in 4D.
Look-ahead and PPC
Everything starting, finishing or running through the next weeks, and Percent Plan Complete with reasons for each miss.
Monte Carlo risk
Chance of finishing by a date, P50, P80 and P90, and each activity's criticality, with calendars and logic respected.
Driving path and curtain
Show the chain that fixes an activity's start, and fade the other rows back instead of removing them.
Delay and drag
Compare baseline and current to see delay events and critical-path drag.
DCMA and beyond
The 14-point assessment plus extra checks, with thresholds you can edit.
Bulk edit with preview
Rule-based changes to many activities, a before and after list, apply, and undo the last edit.
Anonymise to share
Consistent neutral labels for names, codes and resources, and an option to shift every date.
Works with your tools
Alongside P6 and MS Project, or on its own.
P6 in, P6 out
Read XER and XML, then write XER and XML back and import them into P6.
Live read-only P6 databases
Read a P6 Professional database directly, with nothing ever written to it.
MS Project programmes
Read MS Project XML with tasks and links, then use 4D, resources and checks on it.
Spreadsheet programmes
Excel or CSV with names and dates becomes a programme, matched by flexible column headings.
Models without a programme
Clash checks, IDS patches, sets and the set player need no programme at all.
Programmes without a model
Analysis, levelling, risk, look-ahead and PPC need no model.
Data you can use anywhere
Open formats, no lock-in.
One SQLite file per project
Programmes are stored in Primavera's own tables and columns, so they open in any SQLite tool and read as XER data.
Live, read-only P6 databases
Link a P6 Professional standalone database and read its projects each time, without ever writing to it.
Add your own columns
Push model elements to SeaTable, add columns there and pull them back as custom fields.
A data table over the model
Columns, filters, groups, sort and colour on any property, with totals and subtotals, over 100,000 rows, saved as presets.
Twin models
Pair two models that share geometry but not properties, and show both sets of properties side by side.
Layouts and presets
Save a table, Gantt or Explorer setup by name and come back to it.
Built for the working day
Small things that save an hour.
Duplicate in a new tab
Open a second copy with the same models and programmes.
Colour-blind safe palette
Gantt, network and status colours that stay apart for common colour vision differences.
Section, measure, coordinates
Section planes, length, area, angle and volume, and point coordinates in project axes copied to the clipboard.
Storey slide
Pull storeys apart vertically to see inside a building.
Settings travel
Export the whole configuration and import it on another machine.
A wiki that ships with it
The guide is in the app, and your team can add pages and paste images and videos.
Experimental and in-development features are marked on the Features page. Primavera, P6 and Navisworks are trademarks of their owners; Insight Plan is not affiliated with them.
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