Autodesk BIM 360 is the excellent tool for Project, Field and BIM
Managers for accelerating delivery save money and reduces risk. It also allows
project teams to give the tools for coordinating better, communicating more
effectively and resolve issues faster and more profitable project delivery. BIM
mainly works for Superintendents, Project Managers, Virtual Construction
Managers, Subcontractors, Project Engineers, and Design Teams etc.
Autodesk Forge: It is a collection of Application Program
Interfaces or APIs which Autodesk has used for developing their own web
services. APIs are the part of Autodesk forge, so Autodesk has shared those
APIs with the documentation and code samples to the customers and the 3rd Party
developers or the Forge community who has a need for leverage years’ work off
legacy and recent data associated with the projects.
Capabilities of BIM 360:
a.
The team of BIM 360 allows design teams for centralizing project design
information and also provides easy access for the extended team members.
b. BIM 360 Docs makes a connection with the project teams by one app for
publishing, managing, reviewing, marking up and approving all project plans,
models and documents.
c. BIM 360 Glue gives access to the project teams and explores associative models
either online or offline, review about the intelligent object properties and
also take simple measurements.
d. BIM 360 Layout connects with BIM 360 Glue coordinated models for robotic
total stations to streamline the layout process of construction.
Autodesk
Forge has made an effort to help Autodesk BIM customers with the advantage
Forge capabilities. Sam Nasir, an Autodesk Building Information Modeling
Premium Support Specialist, has developed a step-by-step guide for the
non-programmers for exporting Company data from BIM 360. This is helpful for
the users who want to use BIM data in fusion with Enterprise resource Planning
systems or ERP or charge different analyses through other systems.
Introduction
of Step-by-step guide: The account administration of BIM 360 provides the
capability of managing the information of companies that are participating in
Autodesk BIM 360 projects. The information of the companies’ like location and
trade can be added, edited and shared across BIM 360 products. Autodesk Forge
can be utilized by account administrators for extracting the data of
enterprise-level companies’ for analysis outside of BIM 360 Account
Administration. For this utilization, Autodesk Forge needs some software
development experience for advantage the APIs and designed for non-programmers.
Steps: At first create an
Autodesk Forge App:
a.
At first sign in Autodesk Developer Portal with the Autodesk Account. Then
click on ‘SIGN IN'. Those who don’t have an account click on ‘SIGN Up’.
b. Then create an app by clicking on ‘CREATE APP’ option. Next select ‘BIM 360
API’ and enter the application name and description. Callback URL is needed to
create an app.
c. Note down Client ID and Client Secret. These two things can be seen after
creating the app in the new app page.
In the second step, connect Forge
App to BIM 360 Account:
a.
Now log in to the existing BIM 360 enterprise account with the same Autodesk
Account, then navigate to ‘SETTINGS’ tab and ‘Apps & Integrations’ tab.
Click the ‘Add Integration’ button.
b. Next select access to BIM 360 Account Administration and click on ‘Next’.
c. Select “I’m the developer” option and click on ‘Next’.
d. Now enter the Client ID, name, description and logo.
e. After note down the BIM 360 Account ID click on the ‘Save’ button.
In
the third step, download and install Postman:
In
the fourth step, export BIM 360 Companies to JSON file.
a.
There would be an option for downloading a zip file that contains Postman
Collection and Variables JSON files.
b. Unzip the file in Postman and click on ‘Import’ in the top left and import
Postman Collection form ‘Postman_Collection.json’ in the unzipped folder.
c. Next click on the ‘Environment Options’ wheel in the top right corner and
click on ‘Manage Environments’. Now click and import and select
‘Postman_Variables.json’ for importing ‘BIM360Export’ environment variables.
d. After that click on ‘BIM360Expert’ and enter Client ID and Secret and BIM
Account Id and click ‘Update’.
e. After selecting ‘BIM360Expert’ in the environment drop down, select
‘Authenticate’ and click ‘Send’.
f. Select ‘Get BIM360 Companies’ and click on ‘Send and Download’ from the drop
down.
In
the fifth step, download and install PowerBI:
In
the last step, analyze Companies data in PowerBI:
a.
Now click on ‘Get Data’ button and select ‘JSON’ and click ‘Connect’. Now
select the JSON file ‘response.json’ and click open.
b. In the Query Editor, click on ‘Convert to Table’ > ‘OK’> “Load
more’> unheck “user original column name as prefix’>”OK”> ‘Close and
Apply’.
c. Now from the Data view in the Field list click on ‘….’> ‘response’ and
select ‘Copy Table’.
d. Select Pie Chart from the Report view in the Visualizations list. Drag the
‘country’ field.
e. Drag the ‘trade’ field to the Pie Chart’s Legend and Values fields.
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Published By
Rajib Dey
www.bimoutsourcing.com
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