Project Explorer helps you manage project data within ConstructSim Planner. Project data refers primarily to design, drawing, and sheet models and the files in which models are stored, as well as:

• saved views
• references
• supporting documentation stored in Microsoft Office files, as well as other data file formats.

Project Explorer provides hierarchical storage for information related to design such as DGN and DWG files, models, references, Adobe PDFs, Microsoft Word documents, Microsoft Excel workbooks, and their contents. The Models dialog serves the purpose of managing models within the active DGN file. Whereas, the Project Explorer hierarchically lists models in the active project, making the navigation within the project easier.

Project Explorer allows you to navigate easily through the models, saved views, and references in a DGN file, as well as to other supporting files that have been linked to the DGN file. For example, a DGN file may contain an index that lists the drawings in the file, as well as supporting documentation. You could use Project Explorer to add links from the items in the list to the drawings and supporting files, providing easy access to all documentation related to the project.

Link sets are an important component of Project Explorer. They are used to organize project data. A link set contains links, or pointers, to project data.