NewMS Project .mpp files now open directly in FinitePath

Plan it.Optimize it.Defend it.

One CPM engine, checked against Primavera P6 — for the superintendent, the scheduler and the project manager, from the first baseline to the final update.

Free 30-minute consultation with a FinitePath scheduling engineer.

Already using FinitePath?Open your projects
Opens the schedule files you already have
.mppMicrosoft ProjectNew
.xerPrimavera P6
.xmlMS Project XML
.xlsxMicrosoft Excel
Straight in from Projects › Import Project.
Data centersHealthcare & hospitalsPower plantsHigh-rise structuresIndustrial facilitiesTransportation & transitPharmaceutical plantsDefense projectsUnified school districtsAircraft hangarsRehabilitation centersWater & wastewaterSemiconductor fabsAirports & terminalsLaboratoriesLogistics & warehousingMixed-use developmentsLevees & flood control

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Product walkthroughs and short learning modules on CPM scheduling, baselines, project monitoring, reporting and AI-assisted planning. New videos are added regularly.

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One engine for the whole job.

Build the baseline, tune it, defend it and report it. Every number comes from the same F9 calculation, checked against Primavera P6.

From award to an approved baseline, in one workflow.

Start from what your company has already built: your own as-built projects, a P6 or MS Project file, or a blank WBS. The field sets the durations before anyone presses F9.

  • Open ends and logic loops found before anyone else finds them
  • Schedule health, with DCMA-style checks
  • Critical and longest path, side by side
  • Saved as the baseline every update is measured against
See the six steps in the walkthrough
Baseline, six stepsFS links
1Create the project2Seed the structure3Answer what you know4Launch the best fit5Tune it with Cadence6Press F9, then kick off
Ends on a baseline that is ready for the kick-off meeting.
New in FinitePath

Your MS Project schedule, simplified.

Decades of scheduling craft, made your own.

Open the .mpp directly: no Save As XML, and no MS Project on the machine you import from. FinitePath translates it into Primavera P6’s terms and writes every change into an import log. Then F9 schedules it with P6’s rules.

  1. Step 1Drop in the .mppProjects › Import Project
  2. Step 2Read the import logEvery translation written down
  3. Step 3Press F9The file’s Status date becomes the data date
Import logMS Project .mpp, converted with MPXJ 16.10.0
Data date: the file’s Status date.
TRANSLATED
  • Start No Earlier Than becomes Start On or After
  • Summary rows become WBS nodes
  • Fixed costs become activity expenses
  • Resources go to the library as Labor, Material and Cost
KEPT AND FLAGGED
  • A deadline beside another constraint: kept, not used by F9
  • MS Project’s scheduling options: kept for the record
NOT CARRIED YET
  • Resource assignments on summary rows, listed by row ID
3.3–4.7 s
per .mpp conversion on release day, files of 388 KB to 1.2 MB
2,205 / 2,205
task IDs matching MS Project’s own row numbers
248 / 248
assignments whose daily actual work matches MS Project
99–100%
free-float match with Primavera P6

Sources: FinitePath production log, 10/18/2026; import tests against MS Project 2016’s own XML, October 2026; P6 comparison on three genuine XER schedules of 2,000+ activities each, September 2026.

Let’s build your baseline, together.

Tell us about the job. In a free 30-minute consultation, a FinitePath scheduling engineer goes through your scope, drawings and dates with you and shows how the baseline comes together.

We build it with youFrom your drawings, specs, BOQ and past schedules, with support through every update.
Checked at FinitePathDurations tested against crew output, logic checked for open ends and loops, calendars confirmed before kick-off.
Learn to build it yourselfThe FinitePath PERT method takes you from your WBS to a linked, CPM-calculated schedule. Try the PERT builder

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