Generating a list or urls for specific Bim 360 sheet view

Generating a list or urls for specific Bim 360 sheet view

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Generating a list or urls for specific Bim 360 sheet view

benDFZJ2
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I have a separate analysis website that merges pricing data with a BIM model. We have a 3D viewer but I would like to link individual sheet views to corresponding data. It would be great if I could zoom in on a specific tag, but just a reference to a view of even a sheet would work. How can I access this data, preferably with Dynamo so I can create a simple script.

 

The end result would be a table or list of key. Alive pairs that lists out pricing id’s ( stored as parameters in each Revit element) a Revit view, and the url that corresponds to the same view in a published or to be published Bim 360 Doc.

 

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Since this relates to getting links is it a question more for BIM360 / ACC related forums?

 

Unclear what the Dynamo script would be doing i.e. would it be adding links to parameters in Revit?

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Let’s say I have a list of rooms or assemblies in a power bi dashboard. Clicking on the link would take you to the corresponding 2D view for that room or assembly. Currently auto generated links relate a section cut or elevation marker to the corresponding view, not common sense concepts like a room or assembly name. Dynamo would be required to relate sheets or views to a corresponding parameter list through a  unique url address in BIM 360. This could also potentially be done with the Forge or Autodesk Platform viewer. Not sure if there is a may to tag components of a drawing in Forge similar to the may doc’s can be tagged with #Id We are looking at all potential technical solutions, PDF, BIM 360 3rd party viewers or a custom three.js /webGL viewer. The use case is a contractor who is submitting a bid, looking at an estimate dashboard and a related BIM model in 3D but wants to see that element in 2D and  find related sheets for that element. 

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RPTHOMAS108
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When you publish model to cloud from Revit you don't know at the time what the links will be to individual sheets on ACC/B360 (not sure if they are stable across sessions or not). So there is a task with B360 API in first associating the sheet name or other identifier to the linked location it ends up being (if that is even possible, seems it should be) and part of that includes dealing with OAuth etc. You would have to investigate how such information is retrieved via web requests after being up-loaded to B360 (there is nothing in Revit API that will help with that task). You probably find that a user being signed on in Revit doesn't give them access to B360 outside of Revit (without having to sign into that separately).

 

Also publishing to ACC takes an amount of time and when you publish model to cloud there isn't always the requirement to publish the sheets with the model, often pdfs are published separately to model. So are you talking about viewing the model in ACC/B360 and seeing the sheets that were published with it or linking more generally to pdfs in files area (separately published).

 

The second part of you task it seems is to retrieve a mapping of elements to views. There isn't a one to one relationship between elements and views in the first place since elements may appear on multiple views. So there is a task in deciding which view is the best candidate to link to via other information such as published sheets lists and how relevant the sheet is to the element in question. So as an example a steel beam would be seen on a metal deck layout drawing, a steel plan GA and various sections (you would have to decide that you care most about the steel plan GA or give the user all options to decide).

 

So the second part of you task can be advised upon here but the first part probably not.

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