BIM Software Tip: Adding Costs in TimeLiner
With TimeLiner, you can assign various costs to tasks, allowing you to track the overall expenses of your entire project within the schedule. Costs can be imported from external project planning software or manually entered in the TimeLiner window under the Task tab.
There are five types of costs available:
- Material Cost
- Labor Cost
- Mechanical Cost
- Subcontractor Fees
- Total Cost
Note: By default, only the Total Cost is shown in the Task tab. To display all individual task costs, click on Column Collection and then Expand, or select TimeLiner Column and choose the desired columns from the dialog box.
The Total Cost represents the sum of all other costs assigned to a task and cannot be edited directly. Fees cannot be added to summary tasks because their cost is automatically calculated as the total of their subtasks.
During simulation, task costs will not appear in the overlay text until the task is completed. At the start of a task, all costs are considered zero, and upon completion, the full task costs are applied.
Note: Costs are not tied to any specific currency. For display purposes, values are rounded to two decimal places, but the original input or imported amounts remain unchanged and are used as the basis for cost calculations.
You can add cost information to the simulation overlay text through the Covering Text dialog box, accessible via Simulation Settings. The displayed cost in the overlay will update dynamically based on the current simulation progress.
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