Synchro Essential Training
2h 14mBeginner2016-11-28
Authors
Brian Malouf
Multiplatinum Producer, Engineer, and Mixer
Course details
Virtual design and construction (VDC) is changing the way projects are built. This course teaches leading industry software, Synchro, to help you implement this new direction in your architecture and engineering projects—improving quality, safety, and productivity while reducing costs.
Brian Myers focuses on the major features of Synchro for project management, animation, and presentation. Learn how to import scheduling and model data, schedule tasks and visualize them with Gantt charts, track progress, and even create animations based on tasks. Brian also shows how to export your work to paper, PDF, and image and video files. Start watching to find out how Synchro unifies the process of BIM and scheduling for more insight and control at every stage of construction.
Learning objectives
Understanding the Synchro interface and navigation
Importing 3D models and schedules
Creating tasks
Scheduling with Gantt charts
Model-based scheduling
Reviewing baseline vs. actual progress
Creating 3D objects
Modifying and synchronizing 3D objects
Subdividing objects
Exporting presentations
Printing and exporting 3D PDF, FBX, AVI, and image files
Brian Myers focuses on the major features of Synchro for project management, animation, and presentation. Learn how to import scheduling and model data, schedule tasks and visualize them with Gantt charts, track progress, and even create animations based on tasks. Brian also shows how to export your work to paper, PDF, and image and video files. Start watching to find out how Synchro unifies the process of BIM and scheduling for more insight and control at every stage of construction.
Learning objectives
Understanding the Synchro interface and navigation
Importing 3D models and schedules
Creating tasks
Scheduling with Gantt charts
Model-based scheduling
Reviewing baseline vs. actual progress
Creating 3D objects
Modifying and synchronizing 3D objects
Subdividing objects
Exporting presentations
Printing and exporting 3D PDF, FBX, AVI, and image files
Skills covered
SynchroSynchro Software Ltd.Construction ManagementEssential TrainingAEC
Concepts
Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
Getting Started
- Customizing the workspace
- Discovering the screen layout
- Opening a project
- 3D window navigation
- Using the view cube
- Setting up Auto Save
Importing
- Supported file formats
- Preparing 3D models for import
- Importing 3D files
- Importing a schedule from Microsoft Project
Tasks
- Creating tasks manually
- Editing task duration
- Linking objects to tasks
- Assigning objects to multiple tasks
- Which task an object is assigned to
- Selecting resources assigned to a task
Selecting, Viewing, and Grouping Resources
- Selecting objects
- Creating 3D sets of objects
- Grouping objects within a resource
- Creating auto-matching rules
- Viewing the model with system use profiles
- Creating your own custom use profiles
- Creating cutting planes
- Saving your views with viewpoints
Scheduling
- Formatting the date display
- Understanding Focus Time and Data Date
- Working with the Gantt display
- Model-based scheduling
- Creating a baseline
- Baseline vs. actual
- Synchronizing a schedule
Objects and Animations
- Adding equipment to a project
- Copying and pasting objects
- Moving and rotating objects
- Snapping to elements with the Manipulator
- Resource appearance profile for equipment
- Creating a textured pane
- Creating 3D objects
- Adjusting 3D object properties
- Adding user fields
- Creating an animation
- Setting up Turntable interpolation
- Creating 3D paths
- Synchronizing 3D objects
Subdividing Objects
- Subdividing by slice
- Subdividing multiple objects
- Subdividing by user slice
Exporting Information
- Printing from Synchro
- Exporting to FBX
- Exporting to 3D PDF
- Saving images
- Exporting to AVI
Conclusion
- Next steps