BEXEL Manager API

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BEXEL Manager API (Application Programming Interface) allows developers and advanced users to access systems and functionalities of BEXEL Manager on a code level.

Our API can be used to:

Add new features or functionality
Customize or extend existing features
Automate repetitive, time-consuming tasks
Easily implement your company, country and region-specific standards and workflows in your BEXEL Manager project
Connect to/exchange data with other tools and enterprise software solutions such as ERP (e.g. SAP), Microsoft Dynamics Business Central, Oracle NetSuite, etc.

Integrated API console

Integrated API console allows you to write C# scripts directly inside BEXEL Manager for executing quick checks and analyses.

Properties check
Relations check
Automated property creation
Grouping elements by property value
Filtering elements of the certain property value range
Storey/Building check
Automated color coding
Automated MEP systems control
etc.

More advanced BEXEL Manager add-ins can be developed using popular C# IDEs (Integrated Development Environment) such as Visual Studio (free version available here).

Examples of advanced use cases:

Detect clashes per severity and organize them per week/month of construction
Organize clashes per cost of the elements involved in the clash
Automated customized company/country design and construction rules checklist
Send back actual and planned costs to the BIM authoring software
Earned value analyses and integration with Power BI
Export data to SAP

Prerequisites

Bexel Manager 20 or newer
Visual Studio C# IDE (free version available here, but other versions are also supported)
.NET Framework 4.7.2 (for Bexel Manager 20 or newer)

Creating a new add-in

Registering the add-in

IExternalApplication vs IExternalCommand

Error handling

Debugging

Dockable add-in

BEXEL Manager API Documentation

BEXEL Manager API

Integrated API console

Prerequisites

BEXEL Manager API

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