Vico Office R3.0 Help

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Vico Office R3.0 Help

User guide

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Vico Office R3.0 Help
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Vico Office Introduction

Welcome to Vico Office, Vico's integrated Virtual Construction environment. The Vico Office Suite consists
of a core module and a set of discipline-specific application modules. Each Vico Office application shares
access to the same, integrated, project database, which ensures that a change in one place is reflected
everywhere.

The User Interface across all modules is consistent, predictable, and highly visual. As a result users can
quickly learn and use the system, moreover they retain their knowledge over extended periods of
non-use.
The Vico Office Environment supports the varied disciplines involved in the planning and management of
complex building construction projects. And it supports them at a number of contextual levels that vary
according to the user, the project phase, and the task at hand. These levels are called Explore, Plan,
Control, and Manage.

So whether you are a cost planner working on a schematic-phase estimate, or a project engineer
re-forecasting the schedule midway through construction, the Vico Office Environment delivers the right
tools in the right context at the right time.

The Vico Office Suite is comprised of applications, or modules, that address specific disciplines or areas of
interest across the project team.

With the Vico Office Client as platform, Vico Office R3 contains the Takeoff Manager, Cost Planner,
Cost Explorer, Constructability Manager, LBS Manager, Schedule Planner and 4D Manager
modules.

The Vico Office Client is the central access point for models and model information. From here the user
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creates a project, manages the versions of published models coming into that project, performs reporting,
and accomplishes viewing, navigation, and other filtering/selection. The Vico Office Client also contains
read-only views for Cost Planner and Constructability Manager.

Vico Takeoff Manager performs automated quantity takeoff from the model. The user creates takeoff
items, visually verifies model elements included in the quantities, and manually subtracts or adds model
elements in quantity calculations.

Vico Cost Planner provides integrated cost calculation functionality in the Vico Office environment.
Takeoff Items, both manual and model-based, can be used as quantity input in the n-tiered cost
calculation spreadsheet.

Changes between cost plan versions can be analyzed in Vico Cost Explorer, which graphically presents
the cost breakdown structure and uses colors to indicate the status of groups of cost.

Published models can be checked for constructability issues in Vico Constructability Manager. This
module provides clash detection, constructability workflow and markup functionality. The current status of
a project's construcability review work can be published by generating a constructability report that
contains all recorded construcability issues with the report editor.

Vico LBS Manager provides the tools that let users define a location structure, consisting of any
combination of floors and zones, in their Vico Office project. The defined location structure has no
relation with the locations that were defined in the authoring BIM application, which makes it possible to
define and maintain a uniform location structure for all project information published to the Vico Office
Project.

Vico Schedule Planner introduces the integrated location-based quantity and cost to schedule
connection in Vico Office. Using Vico Schedule Planner, users can integrate model-based quantity takeoff
information from Vico Takeoff Manager with resource quantities from Vico Cost Planner and project
locations from Vico LBS Manager. Schedules created with Schedule Planner are quantity and
location-based and optimized for continuous flow and minimized risk using Flowline technology.

4D Manager lets users define 4D simulations, using the schedule, cost and model information created
with Takeoff Manager, Cost Planner and Schedule Planner.

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Vico Office Workflow

The basic Vico Office R3 workflow consists of 15 steps, starting at creation of a project and ending with
reporting.

Create a project in the My Dashboard view.

Define settings for the project, including units of
measurement in the Project Settings.

Open one or more models in Revit, ArchiCAD or Tekla and
publish to the Vico Office project, or import files into Vico
Office.
Activate a version of published models, specify Takeoff Item
creation Rules and let Office calculate element quantities in
Model Manager.
Detect and process clashes and constructability issues with
Constructability Manager.

Analyze quantity takeoff per Takeoff Item, create new Takeoff
Items and (re)assign model elements in the Takeoff Model
view set.
Check and enter quantities per model Location in the Manage
Takeoff view.

Calculate project resource quantities and cost with Takeoff
Items for quantity input and References for standard content
in the Plan Cost view set.
Define Tags for cost estimating content in the project for
sorting and filtering purposes.

Analyze cost status and compare against project targets in the
Explore Cost view.

Define floors, zones and optimized location breakdown
structures per trade with LBS Manager.

Define tasks and schedule logic, assign crews and optimize
the schedule with Schedule Planner.

Compare versions of the project to previous versions or other
projects with Compare & Update.

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Import data from project data sources such as cost plans,
quantity takeoffs and targets using Excel spreadsheet files in
Excel Import.
Use the extracted quantities, created cost plan(s) and detected
constructability issues to generate reports for project or
project by Location in the Report Editor.

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Office User Interface

Vico Office's User Interface is generally divided into four major components. This includes the Workflow
Panel from which an action based View or Viewset can be accessed to perform the action implied work.
Each View or Viewset in turn will be complimented with its own Ribbon menu and or selected Palettes
that will provide you with dedicated tools to perform the tasks at hand.

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Main Office UI Components

Ribbon
All Workflow Items have context sensitive Ribbon menus for each of the Views activated in
Viewsets. The active View prompts a set of tools and options intended for the selected tasks to be
performed.

Workflow Panel
The Workflow Panel predefines the recommended sequence of the tasks that can be performed
with the set of building information that is integrated in Vico Office. It is designed to provide
guidance in the steps that you should take, starting with the definition of a new project and
ending with the creation of a report. Each Vico Office Module will add a specific set of actions to
the workflow panel.

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View or Viewset
When you select a Workflow Item, a dedicated View or a split screen combination Viewset is
activated. You can work in the default view or choose to work in a custom multi-task viewset that
lets you size, restructure, and view any combination of available views.

Palettes
A View or Viewset may have designated palettes available that will aid you to organize project
information via filters and view properties of selected elements. The Filtering Palette contains the
tools to filter the 3D View based on properties of the BIM Elements. The Properties Palette
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