Speckle’s connection to Power BI consists of two parts.

  • The Power BI connector lets you easily load your model from Speckle into Power BI in a tabular format.
  • The 3D Viewer Visual allows you to view and color your models in 3d.

Speckle currently supports versions: . The connector works on only.

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Setup

1

Install the connector

Install your connector

2

Open the Power BI connector

  1. Select Get Data. 2. In the search box, enter Speckle. 3. Select Connect to Speckle and click Connect.

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Loading a Model

1

Load from Speckle

  1. Copy Model URL from the web app.
  2. Paste it in the text field and select OK.
2

Import 3D Visual

  1. In the Visualizations pane, select the three dots (…), then select Import a visual from a file.
  2. Browse to Documents/Power BI Desktop/Custom Visuals.
  3. Select Speckle 3D Visual.pbiviz and Open.
3

Visualize a model

  1. In the Visualizations pane, select Speckle 3D Visual
  2. Configure the visual:
    • Drag Version Object ID column into the Version Object ID input -> required for viewing
    • Drag Object IDs column into the Object IDs input -> required for interactivity
    • Drag any column into Tooltip input -> for tooltip
    • Drag any column into Color by input -> for coloring model
  3. Wait for your model to load in the viewer

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Learn more

Projects & Models

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Connectors

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Presentations

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Automate

Setup actions to run automatically on every publish event.