topic Re: Extracting Data from BIMcloud server in Teamwork & BIMcloud

Extracting Data from BIMcloud server

tonyfitz — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 07:56:31 GMT

Hi,

Is it possible to extract file size data out of the BIMCloud server ?
We work on a lot of concurrent projects, of quite a complicated nature and regularly find some files seem to get quite large and cumbersome to use (especially when IFC's have been included in the file) and would like a way of trying to quickly identify any files that may need to be looked at before they cause too many delays through slow processing. We have found that reloading a bloated file can often reduce file size by a half or more so want to keep on top of this. With the amount of folders and files we have (across multiple servers, inhouse and hosted) it is a time consuming process to search through them individually looking for outliers.

My plan is to be able to extract this data, hopefully automatically on a weekly basis, and have it linked to a Power BI file which will identify the largest files and those which have grown significantly so we can take a look at them and take action as necessary to rectify any problems.

Not sure if this is something that the ArchiCAD API could help with ?

Re: Extracting Data from BIMcloud server

Anonymous — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 10:12:22 GMT

Have you tried BIMcloud logs and diagnostic data.
Hope this helps.

Re: Extracting Data from BIMcloud server

Florian Lohberger — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 20:53:23 GMT

hi
good hint, we have same issues and will try to access those files with Power BI too.
thanks!
Florian

Re: Extracting Data from BIMcloud server

Laszlo Nagy — Sat, 01 Aug 2020 21:20:43 GMT

There is also a BIMcloud API:

https://github.com/GRAPHISOFT/bimcloud-api

I don't know at what stage of development it is or if it can do what you try to do, but it may be worth checking out.