Get Dirty with Data: Building Forma Cloud Data with Dynamo

Exchanging data between applications is a favorite problem in architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC). We risk undersharing and oversharing, we worry about working on different versions of a project, and we find our data formats have become compatible! While desktop software systems are the powerhouses driving design and engineering workflows, we need to communicate beyond our desks, often through rapidly changing distributed cloud interfaces. We've been talking about reading and writing data to a shared cloud in Forma software for a while—and now it’s time to get our hands dirty! Follow along on your laptop or just enjoy the show. We'll walk through how Forma data is structured and why it’s structured this way, and then we’ll use Dynamo to read and write data from the desktop to the cloud. No skills in Dynamo are needed, but if you can, feel free to follow along. Dynamo will be used to show programmers and nonprogrammers the way that Forma data can be created, edited, and searched from really any application or environment.