Network Diagram

Forgot to mention that I am on p3.

Instead of jotting down 600 activities in P3 and then linking them, the best way to do is to first create a activtity cycle. Say a cycle of 30 activities for one floor and then repeating these activties. You can store that as fragnet.

Then you can link floor-to-floor activities.

Same you can repeat for structures / MEP / Cladding and other finishing items.

Cheers,

Raviraj

Ravi,

Excellent idea...can you explain a bit more on using Fragnet.

In fact I have never used it, I used excel for repetitive type of activities and then import these files into P3 project.

Regards,

Ashraf

Hi Ravi
Excellent idea!!!!!!! The only thing I need to do is to re-develop my project using fragnets. But, correct me if I am wrong, I need to change the activity codes for repeated activities each time I retrieve a fragnet. I mean, activity codes contain location information which will be copied exactly the way I have in fragnet.

Hi Ashraf / Sajid,

I have a good paper on using fragnets.

send me a mail on ravirajab@yahoo.co.in

Cheers,

Raviraj

Hi,

i suggest that you need to turn your back from p3 into primavera P5 . your problem will be solve as easy as feeding chicken.
In a complicated world using p3 fragnet it will be more convinient to use MMD methology management then link it to primavera P5 or to make onself easy use excel . imp/ex.

Hi Ravi
Thanks for your email with some valuable infomation on FRAGNETS.

THe most easy way i do is to have (Works better than fragnet):

copy the cycle time (group of activity with relationships defined). Note: In the cycle time, keep only the last three digits in the activity field.

Filter -> No activities

It will ask for three options for renaming activities:
- Rename all
- Prefix / sufix
- Auto-increment

Click on prefix and enter OK.

Type in the activity ID required

and then filter it for all activities.

Re-organize it.

Thats it.

This is most fast and easy way for adding activities.

Cheers,

Raviraj A Bhedase

Hello Raviraj,
Can you explain what is the motive of keeping the last 3 digits alone in the activity field.
regards
deb

These are numbers allocated for the unique activity in the cycle time.

Say for procurement i allocate ID’s like 101, 103, 105, 107

For Engg., 001, 003, 005, 007

For Installation, 201, 203, 205

First seven alphabets/nos. can be used with upper level of WBS/activity codes. This will help you to identify/filter activities much better.

This is my practice again. You can change it as you want. You can have 4 nos also, but sometimes you struggle with acivity ID , as only 10 digits can be allocated for creating avtivity ID (In p3.1 at least)

Cheers,

Raviraj A Bhedase

Hi Lothar

Good sales pitch even if the topic was 5 years old.

Best regards

Mike Testro