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automatic extraction of the database revives

s.dufour — Sun, 18 Nov 2018 12:58:54 GMT

I am currently working on an internal project that will eventually extract the databases of all our projects modeled (with Revit) automatically every night, to be then proposed in the form of dashboards to the various members of the company. My IT Director is currently working on the subject but not knowing the API Revit, and me to. I would like him / us to save time by asking the question in this forum who could guide us on a solution.
If you have any track I thank you in advance

Thank you

Stéphane

Re: automatic extraction of the database revives

jeremytammik — Sun, 18 Nov 2018 19:48:48 GMT

Dear Stéphane,

Thank you for your query and for moving it out from our private LinkedIn discussion here into the public space.

Here are some suggestions on various topics:

Getting started with the Revit API:

https://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/about-the-author.html#2

Before getting started with the Revit API, you should acquire as much knowledge as possible about Revit from the end user point of view.

I would assume that you already have that 🙂

Here is one very old analysis of integrating Revit with an external database:

https://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2009/01/database-integration.html

Many things have improved significantly since then, and your target is probably quite different (and much simpler than) the one discussed there.

It might still give a few hints.

Good luck getting started and looking forward to continuing this discussion once you have started exploring in more depth.

Oh yes, by the way, talking about dashboards and things:

I would strongly encourage you to look at a partially cloud-based solution, to provide convenient access to a much larger audience in a much more scalable manner, with access to a huge number of public domain JavaScript-based libraries that can vastly simplify your work and integration efforts.

Here are some of my own samples integrating desktop and cloud:

https://github.com/jeremytammik/FireRatingCloud

They are also already pretty dated.

Since then, Autodesk has made significant progress with Forge, and Forge design Automation for Revit is just around the corner:

https://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2018/11/forge-design-automation-for-revit-at-au-and-in-public.html

Maybe the will provide the most efficient path forward for your project as well?

I hope this helps.

Best regards,

Jeremy

Re: automatic extraction of the database revives

s.dufour — Mon, 26 Nov 2018 08:20:56 GMT

Hello jeremy,
Thank you for your very interesting ideas (as often)
If other people wish to share their experiences to help me in this project so that one day, I hope, it will allow me to share it with you.

Re: automatic extraction of the database revives

jeremytammik — Mon, 26 Nov 2018 10:44:57 GMT

Dear Stéphane,

Thank you for your update and appreciation.

I wish you lots of additional fruitful input from your peers.

Best regards,

Jeremy

Re: automatic extraction of the database revives

s.dufour — Wed, 05 Dec 2018 18:40:31 GMT

Bonjour,

Voici un article que je partage avec vous de Valentin Noves et correspond exactement à ce que je cherchais.

Son article ICI

Si vous avez déjà expérimenté je suis preneur de vos retours.

Stéphane

Re: automatic extraction of the database revives

jeremytammik — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 07:06:30 GMT

Dear Stéphane,

Thank you for your update and the pointer to Valentin's interesting article.

It speaks in very general terms.

Yes, many add-ins have been developed that address and make use of ideas similar to those pointed out by Valentin.

As I already mentioned, you can approach this task either via a Revit add-in or via the upcoming Forge Design Automation for Revit.

The latter, link to Forge for Real-Time query and visualization, was demonstrated at AU in prototype form by Mustafa Salaheldin:

https://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2018/11/forge-design-automation-for-revit-at-au-and-in-public.html#4.6

Check out his demo video number 5 on creating real-time Revit model queries:

https://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2018/11/forge-design-automation-for-revit-at-au-and-in-public.html#5

Implementing a dashboard via a Revit add-in is pretty straightforward and already implemented in numerous forms by existing add-ins.

You can probably find several examples of that in the Revit AppStore.

Best regards,

Jeremy