Just a quick example of some data pushing that’s got nothing to do with Revit. Every now and then I got to work with other software, and recently I’ve been using Novapoint a lot in a large infrastructure project here in Norway. Novapoint got a tool for collaborating and get messages around the team called Topics. If you have used Infraworks, the equivalent would be the Design Feed. The key difference between the two is that in Topics you can add a lot of metadata, like status, priority, assigned to, labels and so on.
Now, we used this in a rather organized matter for Quality Control of our models where the file name of the different models would correspond to the title of the Topic. This way the whole team could observe, at any time, where in the process the different model files were.
However, Topics could only export to BCFzip and pdfs. While export to BCFzip is awesome, I needed to be able to wrangle this data into Excel.
Dynamo to the rescue, again.
A half hour of scripting and we…
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