ITOs and Autorun

[john.lipp]

Hi @IFC-GHOST

It’s on the list of release notes for the version 9.12.8 Beta:
Solibri 9.12.8 Beta round open

Autorun

• Added support for creation of model category
• Added support for BCF version 2.1
• Added support for automatic update
• Added support for running ITOs and exporting to Excel

[Matti]

openito

• Opens the specified ITO file.

• Parameters:

  • file: Specify the path to the ITO file. The file type must be .ito.

• Example: <openito file="C:\Users\Public\Solibri\SOLIBRI\Information Takeoff\Spaces.ito" />

takeoff

• Calculates the ITOs with matching name if specified or calculates all ITOs if no name is specified.

• Example: <takeoff />

• Optional Parameter:

  • name: Specify the ITO name.

• Example: <takeoff name="Spaces" />

itoreport

• Creates a report of ITO results from Information takeoff view.

• Report can be created using an excel template or it can be a plain excel report.

Plain Excel Report

• If a specific ITO name is provided, then report is created for it. Else, it reports all ITOs.

• Parameters:

  • file: Specify the path and the name for the report file. The file format must be .xls or .xlsx.

• Optional Parameters:

  • name: Specify the ITO name.

• Example: <itoreport name="Spaces" file="C:\Users\Public\Solibri\SOLIBRI\Samples\Spaces.xlsx" />

• Example: <itoreport file="C:\Users\Public\Solibri\SOLIBRI\Samples\Spaces.xlsx" />

Excel Template Report

• The report is created using the excel template.

• The report file and template file must have same excel format, either .xls or .xlsx.

• If a specific ITO name is provided, then report is created for it. Else, it reports all ITOs.

• Parameters:

  • file: Specify the path and the name for the report file.

  • templatefile: Specify the path and the file name for the template to be used when creating the report.

• Optional Parameters:

• name: Specify the ITO name.

• reportTitle: Add a name for the report.

• Example: <itoreport name="Spaces" file="C:\Users\Public\Solibri\SOLIBRI\Samples\Spaces.xlsx" reportTitle="Report" templatefile="C:\Users\Public\Solibri\SOLIBRI\Information Takeoff\Templates\Spaces.xlsx" />

• Example: <itoreport file="C:\Users\Public\Solibri\SOLIBRI\Samples\Spaces.xlsx" reportTitle="Report" templatefile="C:\Users\Public\Solibri\SOLIBRI\Information Takeoff\Templates\Building Element Quantities.xlsx" />

• Example: <itoreport file="C:\Users\Public\Solibri\SOLIBRI\Samples\Spaces.xlsx" templatefile="C:\Users\Public\Solibri\SOLIBRI\Information Takeoff\Templates\Building Element Quantities.xlsx" />

[BIM1337]

@matti-kannala

“or calculates all ITOs if no name is specified.”
So without specifying a name it’ll takeoff all ito’s in the smc file? That’s great!

[IFC GHOST]

@Matti-Kannala
This just amazing, useful and optimal, thanks for this magic update.
Does this work for all the Solibri versions ?
Regards,

[Matti]

@ifc-ghost

Only 9.12.8 onwards.

There are also some other autorun improvements:

Fix BCF 2.1 autorun reporting

• Example: <bcfreport file="C:\SolibriAutorun\reports\SolibriBuilding_BCFReport.bcf" version="2.1"/>

Setting model categories

<openmodel file="C:\Users\Public\Solibri\SOLIBRI\Samples\ifc\Solibri Building.ifc">
<category>CAT_NAME1</category>
<category>CAT_NAME2</category>
</openmodel>

updatemodel

• Updates a specific IFC file included in the SMC model with a new IFC file.

• Parameters:

  • file: Specify the file and the path to the file to be updated. The file must be included in the SMC model opened by the openmodel task.

• Optional parameters:

  • with: Specify the path to the new version of the file.

  • autoupdate: When true, model is updated only when the IFC file is newer than the previously imported version. When false, the model is updated unconditionally.

• Example: <updatemodel file="C:\Users\Public\Solibri\SOLIBRI\Samples\ifc\SMC Building.ifc" autoupdate="true"/>

autoupdatemodels

<autoupdatemodels/>

• Updates all imported models that have a newer version on the disk.

[IFC GHOST]

@Matti-Kannala
This is just amazing, thank you for these improvements.

[BIMGOAT]

Has anybody tried Excel Template Report, it’s not working for me. It crashes.

[Matti]

@bimgoat

Could you check the log files. There is also separate autorun.log.

Check the paths.

You also try this one:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<batch name="Simple Batch" default="root">
<!-- This is the starting task -->
<target name="root">

<openmodel file="C:\Users\Public\Solibri\SOLIBRI\Samples\ifc\Solibri Building.ifc" />

<openito file="C:\Users\Public\Solibri\SOLIBRI\Information Takeoff\Spaces.ito" />
<takeoff name="Spaces" />
<itoreport name="Spaces" file="C:\Users\Public\Solibri\SOLIBRI\Samples\Spaces Simple.xlsx" />
<itoreport name="Spaces" file="C:\Users\Public\Solibri\SOLIBRI\Samples\Spaces with Template.xlsx" reportTitle="Report" templatefile="C:\Users\Public\Solibri\SOLIBRI\Information Takeoff\Templates\Spaces.xlsx" />

<exit />
</target>
</batch>

[Matti]

As result of previous autorun you will get:

[Matti]

Solibri 9.12.8 Developer Platform documentation is published.
It includes the new autorun features.
https://solibri.github.io/Developer-Platform/

[BIMGOAT]

@matti-kannala

I use a custom made template that works perfectly when using it in Solibri, to generate the report from template.

I’ll try the example you’re suggesting but there’s an error at the moment when starting Solibri Office.

This is from the autorun log file when it crashes on the last task that’s the ito template report.

2021-12-16 17:00:40.800+0100 ERROR c.s.s.p.b.actions.BatchAction - Failed while running BatchRun
java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "com.solibri.resource.Resource.getString()" because the return value of "com.solibri.saf.core.resource.RecentResource.getResource()" is null
	at com.solibri.saf.core.resource.RecentResource.c(Unknown Source)
	at com.solibri.saf.core.resource.RecentResource.a(Unknown Source)
	at com.solibri.saf.core.resource.RecentResource.addRecentResources(Unknown Source)
	at com.solibri.saf.core.resource.RecentResource.addRecentResources(Unknown Source)
	at com.solibri.saf.core.resource.RecentResource.addRecentResources(Unknown Source)
	at com.solibri.saf.plugins.batchplugin.tasks.ReportItoTask.a(Unknown Source)
	at com.solibri.saf.plugins.batchplugin.tasks.ReportItoTask.b(Unknown Source)
	at com.solibri.saf.plugins.batchplugin.tasks.ReportItoTask.b(Unknown Source)
	at com.solibri.saf.plugins.batchplugin.tasks.ReportItoTask.a(Unknown Source)
	at com.solibri.saf.plugins.batchplugin.tasks.ReportItoTask.run(Unknown Source)
	at com.solibri.saf.plugins.batchplugin.BatchTarget.run(Unknown Source)
	at com.solibri.saf.plugins.batchplugin.BatchRun.runTarget(Unknown Source)
	at com.solibri.saf.plugins.batchplugin.BatchRun.run(Unknown Source)
	at com.solibri.saf.plugins.batchplugin.actions.BatchAction.runBatch(Unknown Source)
	at com.solibri.modelchecker.core.ModelChecker.a(Unknown Source)
	at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:831)

[BIMGOAT]

Is it required to have an ITO in the SMC file with the exact same content as the report template?
When using the report template in Solibri this is not a requirement, put perhaps using Autorun it is required?

[BIM1337]

@matti-kannala said in ITOs and Autorun:

@bimgoat

Could you check the log files. There is also separate autorun.log.

Check the paths.

You also try this one:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<batch name="Simple Batch" default="root">
<!-- This is the starting task -->
<target name="root">

<openmodel file="C:\Users\Public\Solibri\SOLIBRI\Samples\ifc\Solibri Building.ifc" />

<openito file="C:\Users\Public\Solibri\SOLIBRI\Information Takeoff\Spaces.ito" />
<takeoff name="Spaces" />
<itoreport name="Spaces" file="C:\Users\Public\Solibri\SOLIBRI\Samples\Spaces Simple.xlsx" />
<itoreport name="Spaces" file="C:\Users\Public\Solibri\SOLIBRI\Samples\Spaces with Template.xlsx" reportTitle="Report" templatefile="C:\Users\Public\Solibri\SOLIBRI\Information Takeoff\Templates\Spaces.xlsx" />

<exit />
</target>
</batch>

Same for me, the one you suggest to try works great.

Yet I get the same error when using a template that we use to extract model timestamps.

This is the content of the template, works when reporting ito in Solibri, with Autorun it crashes.

[BIM1337]

It works for me now after adding this line:

<openito file="C:\Users\Public\Solibri\SOLIBRI\Information Takeoff\Modellist.ito" />
<takeoff name="Modellist" />

No more crash!

[Matti]

@bim1337

There is a problem with ITO template reports that happens with some .ito files.

There is a workaround for the problem:

1. Open the ITO
2. Report once with any template
3. Save ITO

This will be fixed to next release.

[Matti]

@bim1337

Solibri 9.12.8.33 (hotfix for 9.12.8.29) released yesterday.
It contains fix for Autorun ITO Template Report issue.