You Don’t Need a Primavera License to View Schedules – Here’s How

You Don’t Need a Primavera License to View Schedules – Use a Free Primavera XER Viewer

If you’re working with project schedules and don’t have a full Primavera P6 license, here’s good news: you don’t need to. With Aurora-Viewer, a free Primavera XER viewer from Stottler Henke Associates, Inc., you can open, review, and explore Primavera XER files for free — no costly license required. Keep reading to discover how it works and why it’s worth adding to your project toolkit.

Free access to schedule review

Aurora-Viewer is a standalone free Primavera XER viewer that enables users to import and open XER files generated by Primavera P6, entirely free of charge. This means that project team members, stakeholders, or reviewers who don’t own full scheduling software can still engage meaningfully with project schedules — interactively and without cost.

Why this matters

Traditionally, reviewing a Primavera schedule meant either exporting to PDF or Excel (which strips away scheduling logic and interactivity) or obtaining a costly Primavera license. Aurora-Viewer provides a smarter alternative: it delivers more than a static snapshot.

The free Primavera XER viewer supports interactive Gantt charts, spreadsheet-style activity tables, single-element drill-downs and logic tracing. For non-schedulers or broader project teams, this means staying informed without the licensing burden or loss of data fidelity.

How to get started

1. Visit aurorascheduling.com to find the download for Aurora-Viewer.
   
2. Download the free installer or ZIP for Windows 10/11.
3. Install the tool and open your .XER file — within moments, you can view the project overview, drill into activities, and examine dependencies in detail.
4. Share Aurora-Viewer with your teammates. Because it’s a free Primavera XER viewer, you can make schedule access available across your organization without extra cost.
   

Best uses and limitations

Aurora-Viewer is ideal for:

• Team members who need to review Primavera schedules but aren’t licensed schedulers.
• Project control professionals who want quick access to XER data without deploying full Primavera.
• Organizations that want to democratize schedule visibility while managing software budgets.

Note that if you need to edit schedules — creating new logic, assigning resources, or modifying data — you’ll still need a full scheduling platform like Primavera P6. Aurora-Viewer is designed for viewing and analysis, not authoring.

Conclusion

If your goal is to view rather than build Primavera schedules, you absolutely don’t need a costly license. Aurora-Viewer is the free Primavera XER viewer that lets you explore and understand your project data in detail, without exporting to static formats. It’s a smart, accessible solution for teams that want transparency and collaboration without financial friction.

Visit aurorascheduling.com today to download Aurora-Viewer — and experience how simple schedule visibility can be.