Maximum Number of Viewable 3D Objects?

Here’s some more weirdness, I add more inclusive filtering and have less objects rendered:


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@Gary_Zimmer did you already update the visual to

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Thanks for letting me know! I updated and there are definitely improvements! The filtering mostly makes sense now. I’m wondering what the intended state of the visual is if there is a linked slicer which has nothing checked. Also I can’t seem to hide the 2D lines by changing slicer settings.

Unsure - what would you expect it to show?

This may be a feature of the Viewer, it already does clever stuff to display lines at all. Can check.

If I remember correctly, you can filter what you want to show in the 3D Visual. If you don’t want lines to appear in the viewer, you can filter those out by their speckle_type attribute. If you can share a sample stream, I can give it a try.

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Hi, I installed the last release of Powerbi visuals but I have this error message also if I updated PBI.
Do you have any idea? I can use only the version alpha5

I also had an issue with *.mez … the new version of PowerBI is not able to find the Data source anymore. Maybe some security settings

Interesting. We never encountered this issue before. What is your PowerBI version?

You need to make changes in the Data Security settings under Options. Does following the steps described here👇 solve your issue?

Hi @gokermu,

The interesting fact about it is that I did not have issues with the connector so far … they started this week.

This is my version:

After checking the settings … which were interestingly not modified (still the connector worked :exploding_head:) … I have modified them according to your help page. Now there is no error message and also no Speckle showing up ^^. Standard IT trick … downloading the file again and replacing it also did not do the trick. Life would be boring without this strange nonsense :joy:.

Update: switching security to regular … error message (see screenshot about). Switching it to not recommended … no warning and no Speckle.

This one is due to the fact that we’re keeping our PowerBI visual pretty much up to date with whatever PowerBI is releasing.

Since we’re currently in alpha stages, we’ve prioritised being able to take advantage of the latest PowerBI features over allowing for backwards compatibility.

This will change once we reach a more stable version, but for now I’d recommend keeping your PowerBI Desktop up to date (or using the web for your report creation, which is kept up to date for you if I understand it correctly)

This is rather weird. Nothing has really changed with the way we do our releases or package our DataConnector.

We have done some attempts at bypassing PowerBI’s security measures (in a legit way, following Microsofts own advice) but that’s still not really ready for real-world use.

I just double checked both DataConnector and Visual with my version of PowerBI and they seem to work with no issues. Note that I’m on June 2023 version.

For the DataConnector, the PowerBI version shouldn’t matter, as there are no PowerQuery updates (and haven’t been in a while).
For the visual it may be that you need at least the May release, but would recommend having it upgrade to the latest stable

Let us know if you continue to have issues with the DataConnector @AlexHofbeck and I’ll send you a different version that is signed (in the hopes that would work with the security settings) :wink:

The desktop version is the latest one downloaded from the Microsoft website.
With the web version, I have the following problem which is different. Even though I added Stream Url and Object ID, there is incomplete data input.

I think you’re missing the newly added commit object id input, which should be generated by the lastest version of the Data Connector.

I appologise for the misleading error message

Hi @AlanRynne,

yes now I can see the 3D model only in the web.
Thank you very much for the improvement.

Now there’s only one thing that limits my workflow a bit, it’s the possibility to filter the 3D view from a table (I can only do it with a slicer) and conversely filter the table by selecting an element in the 3D viewer.
Another thing that is not so clear for me at this moment is the organization of the data inside the “speckle type”, where the 3D elements are considered Revit Instance, and/or BuiltElements, and/or RevitElemetnType.Object etc
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This organization create some incoherence in my 3D viewer.

Thanks

Mirko

You can change the interaction mode of your table (and 3d viewer) so that they highlight or filter depending on your needs :wink: You may need to turn on interactions in the report view to see those though.

Our current recomendation is to curate the data you want for your report on the Data Connector side using PowerQuery. One rarely needs all the elements in a building for the reports, so you can filter out what you don’t want, or filter just the things you care about before the data gets to the report.

Hope this helps!

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Initially, I switched PowerBI to English in order to make it work with Speckle at the beginning. Interestingly the newest version of PowerBI somehow hides the Speckle when I have the language English set for the UI. Uninstalled it … PowerBI was in German … the connector showed up again … changed it to English connector vanishes. Super strange … but now at least I have found a solution.

Very interesting discovery @AlexHofbeck!

I have no idea what could be going on, but will try to repro on my side!

ah yes @AlanRynne, it was just an interaction problem, by default it was deactivated.

Thanks

Now with the latest improvements I’m very close to the goal. Great!!

The last points for me now are the Revit MEP elements (you are already working on it @teocomi ) and the Navis PowerBI connection improvement (yet discussed with @jonathon )

Thank you very much all <3

Mirko

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