SYNCHRO Modeler Ideas Portal

Improve naming of split objects created by Modeler

Currently names of the 3d objects are not informational and cause inconvenience for distinguishing them.

Instead of naming all of them WorkAreaDetailingElement, it may be better to name this split objects by concatenating the inherited original object name and work breakdown area name.

In this example below, the names of the split objects will look like:

  • OBM_GirderConcrete-East Grading 1

[original object name]-[work area name]

This creates more intelligent construction model and ridges the gap between modeling and planning/scheduling as well.

  • Jacqueline Chen
  • Jan 29 2021
  • Future consideration
  • Attach files
  • Guest commented
    14 Nov 10:02

    This is very important to name them as per the workarea they belong to as users often wants to filter all the elements belonging to a particular workarea in synchro 4d pro. Or else manual selection becomes very difficult.


  • Guest commented
    20 Feb 10:52

    Please implement Jacqueline's and Daria's suggestions.

  • Daria Kosmala commented
    April 17, 2023 11:58

    Still the improvement does not meet user's requirement.

    A WorkDetailingElement's name contains an unique number which has no relation with the Work Area it belongs to - see the attachment.

    User must create a property manually by manual selection of the elements belonging to the same Work Area. It takes a lot of time and will be extremly tedious with complex projects (intersections with mutiple alignments).

    Users need a property which identifies in 4D Pro elements belonging to the same Work Area.

  • Daria Kosmala commented
    January 10, 2023 10:04

    At the WorkAreaDetailingElement we would need 3D User Field with the uniq Work Area name, following the name provided in Modeler - it would allow Synchro 4D Users to filter 3D elements quickly and assign Resource Codes by UF with simple script.

  • Stephan Klotz commented
    January 05, 2023 12:47

    Good idea Jacqueline

  • Indrawan Wijaya commented
    August 26, 2021 02:18

  • Indrawan Wijaya commented
    August 26, 2021 02:17

    Looks like now the there is unique number added.