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Ideate Automation can be used with Ideate BIMLink to automatically create and publish weekly document issuance records that look like the image below. This process of merging the sheet and revision/issuance dates into a single matrix can be extremely error prone and time consuming when done manually. Using the script called “IBL-Document_Issuance” or “IBL-Document_Issuance-List” can completely automate this task to provide accurate data back to your team.
Ideate BIMLink subscribers may request the macro template referenced in the scripts below from our support team.
Before launching this script it is useful to place the macro excel file in the specified folder location (#2, below) so that it can be updated with the new data.
To create an document issue record for one or more Revit files, follow the instructions below.
This script will launch the correct version of Revit based on your Revit file selection, then open that Revit file, launch Ideate BIMLink, load the link definitions found within the 05 Revision Management folder, and then use the Export function to create or update an Excel file matching the name specified. When done it will close out Revit.
*TIP: BIM 360/ACC users can use this type of folder syntax to export the data to the respective BIM 360/ACC projects: %userprofile%\ACCDocs\${${revit_file}~Hub Name:OrEmpty}\${${revit_file}~Project Name:OrEmpty}\Project Files\DIR
Learn more on this Help Topic: Basic Scripting with Ideate Automation