Planning engineer here. I got tired of explaining delays with bar charts, so I built a 4D tool I've been building this on the side and I finally think it's good enough to show people, so here goes. Some background: I'm a planning engineer. Every month it's the same story. I send the update, nobody really reads the Gantt, and then in the meeting someone asks "ok but where on site are we actually behind?" and I'm sitting there reading out activity IDs trying to explain it. Synchro and Navisworks TimeLiner can do this, but they're pricey and honestly overkill for what I needed. I just wanted to drop in the model and the P6 file and see the thing get built. So I made 4D Sequencer. What it does: - You open your model (IFC, or FBX if you're coming from Revit, also OBJ, glTF, STL) and your schedule (P6 XER or XML, MS Project, Excel or CSV) - It tries to link elements to activities by itself using levels, zones, element types and activity names. On my test projects it gets most of them, and it tells you which ones it's guessing so you can fix those - Press play and watch it go up day by day, with the Gantt moving along with it - Baseline vs actual side by side, anything behind goes red - It checks the schedule against the model. The one I'm proudest of: it catches stuff like columns scheduled before the slab they're sitting on. Plus the usual quality checks (missing logic, lags, high float etc.) - Exports PowerPoint, Excel and a video for the monthly report It's on the Microsoft Store now Check it out here : https://threelanternsgames.github.io/   submitted by   /u/OkGoodYesFantastic   to   r/projectmanagement [link]   [comments]