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Reading data from an Excel spreadsheet

Reading data from an Excel spreadsheet

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Reading data from an Excel spreadsheet

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- [Instructor] One of Dynamo's most attractive features to Revit users is its ability to import information from outside of the BIM environment into a Revit project. One of these formats, and possibly one of the most common ways that architects, engineers, and contractors share information outside of drawings, is by sharing Excel files, which is information that's organized in a tabular form, or in rows and columns. In this video, we'll import the data from an Excel spreadsheet into Dynamo. Now, before we do anything in Dynamo, let's take a look at the spreadsheet that we'll be importing. When we open it up, we can see that it has information about several different types of retail shelving. One column is a number, or an identifier of each shelf type, then there's a description of each shelf type's intended use, either Shirts, Pants, Footwear, or Accessories. And then we have the width and the height dimensions of the shelf type in inches, as well as the number of shelves that each…

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