- Redeem training credits for training or services of your choice
- Plan, manage, construct, track, and review your construction projects in 4D
- Review, communicate, and cooperate in a digital and interactive visual environment
- Validate and optimize your project plan years before you start on site
- Identify schedule problems early, saving you and your team time and money
- Ensure that the entire team is engaged by inviting the supply chain to participate
- Deploy the right capabilities for the job by leveraging custom features
SYNCHRO
4D construction project management software
Including 5 training credits
Digitally enhance your construction planning and operations with 4D
SYNCHRO 4D is a real-time cloud solution that enables digitally enhanced construction planning and operations.? The only platform that interoperates with all major 3D modeling and scheduling tools in the market, you can count on SYNCHRO 4D to handle your most complex construction projects. Take advantage of virtual construction, planning, and model-based workflows. With a 4D digital construction management platform, you can combine 4D authoring capabilities and third-party software to use applications designed for each unique role in the project delivery process, whether planning work sequences, digital rehearsals, or tracking progress in the field.? You can confidently deliver your projects on time and within budget with SYNCHRO 4D.
Work with model-based construction workflows
SYNCHRO 4D enables you to construct, plan, and track projects based on a construction model. You can easily communicate and present the construction plan and schedule, allowing for trade partner collaboration and commitment with confidence, on-time execution and delivery, and quicker approval for payment. The web and mobile applications extend the value of the 4D construction model by exchanging and managing 2D, 3D, and 4D models with geolocated, rich data in the project context. Your team can efficiently access and author data to make more informed decisions.
Deliver your construction projects on time
Schedule your construction projects with real-time progress updates. Easily plan, manage, construct, track, and review your construction projects in 4D. SYNCHRO 4D runs on Microsoft Azure, to give you best-in-class cloud technology. You can ensure safety while delivering your construction project on time.
Ensure high-quality projects, eliminate rework, and protect your budget
You can review, communicate, and cooperate in a digital and interactive visual environment with your project team. Everyone can perform at a higher level with access to real-time information. You can now, validate and optimize your project plan years before you start on site. ?With SYNCHRO 4D, you can save time and money when you identify scheduling problems in advance of the work. You can rely on data that is secure, up-to-date, and accessible from a range of devices based on roles and permissions.
Focus on Safety
Understand all the potential risks before you start building. Deploy the right capabilities for the job by leveraging custom features. And ensure better collaborate and engagement with entire team, inviting supply chain participation.
Connect Between Office and Field
You can extend the value of your 4D model into field workflows for status checks, work planning, review, and inspections within the SYNCHRO portfolio. With connected applications and workflows, your project team can review, validate, and communicate in one complete digital and interactive visual environment that includes documents, forms, and models.
Enable Digital Twins
Leverage SYNCHRO 4D, powered by Bentley?s iTwin technology, to provide stakeholders access to the 4D construction models as a single source of truth. You can navigate and author construction models from gathered design models. The application also features best-in-class interoperability with a variety of third-party modeling and scheduling capabilities.
Large-scale Model Performance
SYNCHRO 4D is interoperable with all major BIM and scheduling formats and works from any device, with any size of model.
Real-time Project Teamwork
SYNCHRO 4D enables supply chain participation with real-time data exchange. You can have collaborative workflows based on project roles and permissions.
Project to Portfolio Analytics
Get access to metrics for real-time visibility into progress and problem areas. With SYNCHRO 4D, you get automated reporting.
SYNCHRO 4D, powered by iTwin?
The following?minimum,?recommended, and?Enterprise Edition?system specifications are outlined below.
The?minimum specification?accommodates a project with several thousand tasks, and some 3D information (such as the example models provided with SYNCHRO Pro).
- Processor: 2.8 GHz Quad Core
- Memory (RAM): 16 GB
- Graphics Card: 4 GB
- Display: 1280×1024
The?recommended specification?accommodates a project with tens of thousands of tasks, and detailed 3D information.
- Processor: 4 GHz Octa Core
- Memory (RAM): 32 GB or greater
- Graphics Card: 16 GB
- Display: 2560×1600 and dual monitors
The?enterprise edition specification?ensures scalability and performance for the largest projects, and highly detailed 3D information (for example structure plus MEP detail).
- Processor: 5 GHz Octa Core
- Memory (RAM): 64 GB or greater
- Graphics Card: 32 GB, 64 GB, or greater
- Display: 2560×1600 and dual monitors
For all systems ? ?
- Hard Disk Space
- 5 GB for installation files
- 1 GB for each project file (typical)
- 100 MB for small office model (optional)
- Operating System
- Microsoft Windows 10, 11
ProjectWise Explorer Client
- 1 GHz x64 processor or better.
- 1 GB of RAM minimum, additional RAM recommended for adequate streaming of point cloud and raster references.
- 1.1 GB of free hard disk space for installation, additional space for the working directory (depending on the number and size of files) if the user’s working directory will be on this computer.
- 64-bit Windows server or client operating system:
- Windows Server 2022, Standard and Datacenter editions
- Windows Server 2019, Standard and Datacenter editions
- Windows 11
- Windows 10
- Windows networking configured for the TCP/IP protocol (IPv4 or IPv6).
- Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6 or later.
- Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 for Microsoft Office integration.
- Microsoft Excel for ProjectWise Export/Import feature.
ProjectWise Drive ?
- Windows operating system
SYNCHRO Field
iOS
- SYNCHRO Field supports iOS/iPad OS 15.0+, but the latest version is strongly recommended.
- For projects that will utilize model workflows, iPad Pro or iPhone Pro on the latest iOS version are strongly recommended. For projects that don?t require model workflows, iPad or iPhone on the latest iOS version are recommended.
Android
- Flagship models on the latest Android version are strongly recommended.
- 64-bit CPUs are required. Please ensure the operating system (OS) runs in 64-bit mode.
- SYNCHRO Field supports Android 9.0, but the latest version is strongly recommended.
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Each license is assigned to a specific user 24/7 support and access to all the latest updates
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One-time license purchase with an annual SELECT (maintenance) fee
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Shared Network License – no assignment required
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24/7 support and access to all the latest updates
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Pay-as-you-go license model
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Pre-paid account based on estimated annual Bentley software usage
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Each quarter, Bentley reviews your monthly usage and charges you for what you used
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Monthly billing accommodates an increase or decrease in software licenses without a long-term commitment
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Great for occasional or short-term requirements
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A Perpetual License is bought outright and owned indefinitely. You pay once, then pay an annual SELECT maintenance fee to keep your software updated and supported. It’s a shared network license, so it isn’t tied to one user.
An Annual Subscription is a 12-month subscription license you renew each year. It’s assigned to a named user and can be re-assigned every 30 days. Lower upfront cost, but access ends if you don’t renew.
In short: a Perpetual License is buying the software, while an Annual Subscription is renting access for the year.
It comes down to how long and how often you plan to use the software:
Choose an Annual Subscription if you want a lower upfront cost and no long-term commitment.
Choose a Perpetual License if you plan to use the software for many years. It is usually the cheapest option over the long run (around seven years or more).
Choose a Cloud Service Subscription if your usage is occasional or short-term and you want maximum flexibility. Keep in mind that CSS is charged at a premium rate, so it is not the most cost-effective choice if you use the same software regularly.
If you are not sure, just ask us. We will look at how your team works and recommend the option that saves you the most money.
It is simple and there is no disruption. Your software, your licenses, and your data all stay exactly as they are within your Bentley Account. The only thing that changes is who looks after you. CAD Journey can act as your dedicated partner for support, licenses, training, and advice. There is no cost and nothing changes.
Every license includes access to all the latest software features and updates, along with round-the-clock technical support. As a CAD Journey client, you also have our team of Bentley experts as your first point of contact for any question. Annual Subscriptions go a step further and include free one-on-one training and mentoring hours to help your team get up to speed.
Here is what to expect after you order:
1. Within 24 hours, your licenses are fulfilled and added to your account, ready to assign.
2. Within 48 hours, one of our Customer Success Managers reaches out to make sure you are set up and everything is working as it should.
From there, the main steps are registering each team member, assigning a license to each one, and having everyone install the software and sign in. We will walk you through all of it, or we can simply take care of the setup for you.
The CONNECTION Client is a small free app that sits on each user’s computer. Users sign in to it with their account, and that sign-in is what activates the software. It is also where users download updates and check which licenses they have. There are no activation keys or serial numbers to manage anymore, so signing in is all that is needed.
The administrator is the person who can manage users and assign licenses for your organization. You can also set up co-administrators so more than one person can help manage the account. This is useful if your IT team handles software, or if you want a backup for when the main administrator is away. We can help you set up the right people with the right access.
It depends on the license type:
– Annual Subscriptions are assigned to a named user, so you need one for each person who uses the software.
– Perpetual Licenses work as a shared pool, so they can be used across your team without being tied to one person.
If you are not sure how many licenses you need, we are happy to work it out with you.
Once users are registered your license administrator can begin assigning licenses.
1. Sign in to your license portal at connect.bentley.com.
2. Open the License Management area.
3. Choose the product and assign it to the user you want.
The user gets a confirmation email and can start using the software right away. If you get stuck at any point, just reach out and we will jump in.
New people first need to be registered as a user on your account before they can be given a license. An administrator can add them by entering their name and work email, and then assign a license to them. If you would prefer, send us the details and we will add and assign your new starters for you.
Yes, a practitioner license can be re-assigned as many times as needed on the first day it is assigned to a user.
After the initial 24-hour assignment period, the license will be locked for 30 days. At the end of the 30 day period the license will be available for re-assignment.
Any re-assignment will restart the 24-hour assignment clock, and will be followed by the 30 day assignment lock.
No. Software now activates through a simple sign-in. As long as a user is registered, has a license assigned, and signs in to the CONNECTION Client, the software will run. There are no keys to track or share.
SELECT is Bentley’s maintenance program for perpetual license holders. It gives you access to the latest software version, technical support, and license portability across devices. Without the SELECT program you can only utilize the version you purchased and lose access to updates. For most active users, SELECT is a requirement and letting it lapse can create complications as versions evolve.
Annual subscription users will lose access at the end of the term if they do not renew. The CAD Journey team will flag your upcoming renewals well in advance so that you’re never caught off guard.