CupixWorks 5.0 — this article is still being finished. Screenshots marked to be replaced show the right screens and will be retaken before launch. Taken from a build where some on-screen labels had not been translated yet.
What BIM Timeline is for
BIM Timeline puts the design model and the construction schedule on screen together, next to the capture of what is actually there. It answers one question: at this date, what was the model expecting to exist here?
The surface has three parts, and they stay on screen together. The capture viewer on the left is the site as photographed. The model pane on the right is the BIM. The Schedule panel across the bottom is the programme, as a task tree and a Gantt chart.
Opening it
Choose BIM in the left rail of SiteView. The model pane opens beside the capture and loads the model; until it finishes the pane is empty rather than blank-with-a-spinner, so give it a moment on a large model.
The Schedule panel is opened from the model pane's toolbar. Its two tabs are Map and Schedule; Schedule is the one described here.
The task tree, and what it is grouped by
BREAKDOWN switches the tree between Location and Trade. Under Location the levels are the top rows, and expanding one gives work areas, then trades, then individual tasks.
| Column | What it holds |
|---|---|
| Task | The name, indented by its place in the tree. |
| Activity | The activity the task belongs to. |
| Start, End | The planned dates. The Gantt bar to the right spans them. |
What 4D does, at the top level
The 4D row is what makes this a timeline rather than a model viewer. Set it to Off and the model renders plainly, in grey, with no date applied to it at all.
Set it to anything else and the model is drawn as of a date or a span, and elements take on colours. Reading the BIM Timeline colours covers that; Time-filtered views covers choosing the date.