Add Hyperlinks to 3D Elements for BIMx

[Csaba_Kezer]

You can customize what element information is exported to a BIMx Hyper-model. The benefit of configuring Element Information is to control what parameters to show or hide and connect it to the web by adding any number of hyperlinks for any 3D element.

Adjust the Info Set before export

To be able to define hyperlinks for your 3D elements, the Hyper-model must have an Info Set. Choose Classification and Properties or Schedules in the BIMx Publisher Set Properties dialog:

Define hyperlinks using Property Manager

If you choose Classification and Properties you can define custom info for each element using the Property Manager, it will allow you to create or import sets of properties and make them available for the Element Classifications of your choice. Once created and associated those properties will be visible under the Settings dialog of the element. All parameters in Classification and Properties will be exported and listed as the element's custom info in BIMx. As you can see below, if you add Manufacturing information for a specific element in Property Manager, these properties are visible in the Object Selection Settings, and then exported with the Classification and Properties in BIMx.

• Property Manager
• Object Selection Settings
• BIMx - Element Info

Display link as text

If you wish to have your hyperlink displayed as a simplified text, use the markdown syntax method, taking the example of www.graphisoft.com, you can display the hyperlink in BIMx as Graphisoft website, by using the [UI text](URL) format in Archicad, e.g. [GRAPHISOFT website](http://www.graphisoft.com)

Property values with markdown syntax defined in Property Manager:

Property values displayed in a selected Object's settings:

Define hyperlinks in Schedules

You can opt for pulling the data from one or more Interactive Schedules instead of Classification and Properties. Create a schedule that contains the necessary parameters for all 3D elements you would like to add Element Info to. This Schedule will most likely contain many parameters but BIMx smartly detects the relevant parameters for each element and shows only those. Besides adding the basic measuring and info parameters you can define custom texts as well that can be used for adding hyperlinks to the project:

View the exported Element Info in BIMx

Open the exported BIMx Hyper-model in BIMx to see what the resulted Element Info looks like there.

From Schedule:

 

From Classification and Properties:

Any questions? Contact us at bimx@graphisoft.com!

[ISA2428]

It looks really clunky having the entire URL listed. Is there a way to hyperlink the text to an URL?