Building in Four Dimensions! - Google SketchUp Workshop: Modeling, Visualizing, and Illustrating - page 112

FiG 6.8 xD Virtual Builder is a far
more capable application that is set
up via a web interface.
Once the project is begun, the relevant project management file can be
opened in MS Project.
Linking the MS Project tasks with the xD Objects is easily carried out: After the
selection of the relevant task or tasks in MS Project, they can be brought into
xD Virtual Builder via drag and drop. All the xD Objects are created automati-
cally and linked. The start and finish dates are placed into MS Project's data-
base and synchronized. Furthermore, any other attributes from MS Project can
be linked at this stage, but we will not go into this technique here.
FiG 6.9 Here, the time-based data are extracted from MS Project. The xD Virtual Builder application dynamically links them to the elements.