Author: Max Drake

I have a Property Information Demonstration Site that can hold information on properties in a portfolio. Video ( 9.30Min) Being currently unemployed I have time to explore the AM/FM visualisation area that I am interested in. Tools that I use need to be either free or common. On WordPress sites I am always looking for

I have a website with demonstrations that does not seem to get too many visitors. I am not sure why as the blogs about the subjects have a good response. So I decided to do a couple of videos and post them to YouTube. I have completed and posted a number of videos in the

I saw this post on the web. Its a bit suspicious because it talks about Free flipbooks and then promptly recommends one that is so limited in its free version that he needed to be paid to promote it, but has not declared that fact. A good article otherwise. Flipbooks can be used like on-line

Following on from  CAD Data to Excel for Asset Management where I created a BLOCK with ATTRIBUTES and exported that information from a CAD file to a TXT file which was then viewed in Excel. I altered the CASE on a couple of items and deleted one cell so its blank. I then looked at

In the previous post  How to show CAD drawings on a Web Page I talked about posting CAD drawings to a web page for access to the information. In this post I want to talk about having Data in the CAD file that you can extract to Excel. In DraftSight you can create attribute blocks

After my posts on BricsCAD SHAPE & DraftSight renewed my interest in CAD drawings I started to look at another couple of things about CAD drawings. I looked at extracting data from a PDF file, similar to what I am doing with 3D PDF’s with BIM model. From preliminary reading, extracting Attributes out of Cad

This is the 3rd part of 3 videos. Video (17.11 min) In this video I show how to export from Revit to 3D PDF using SimLab 3D PDF exporter ( $199US for Machine licence (2 machines)) . You can try before you buy & there are other PDF creators. I just found this product to

This is the 2nd part of 3 videos. Video (8.58 min) In this video we take the information we exported from the 3D PDF to CSV file and manage that data in the Excel Macro file. We order that information by category so that it is easy to use. The power of the 3D PDF

This is the first part of 3 videos. Video (5.40 min) This video shows how to explore 3d pdfs that have been created from Revit BIM. Data created in Revit can be copied into the 3D PDF.  We can use the 3D PDF to export this information further to an Excel Macro Sheet where we

From How to visualise building condition changing over time I extended the asset base from just 3 buildings to many in this post How to visualise building data from databases. Now I would like to look at how to use Maps as a connector to link all your data together on assets so that you