Skip preamble and see Google Colab notebook and video walkthrough. Background Motivation Engineers and architects use CAD files to create, manage, and store building designs and floor plans. CAD files are rich with data, but if you hand a CAD file to a Tableau user who doesn’t have access to a CAD program or a GIS tool, you’re out of luck. That is a shame because a Tableau user could take floor plan data, overlay it with other data, and do some pretty cool things, such as:
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Mapping a Floor Plan CAD file in Tableau
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Skip preamble and see Google Colab notebook and video walkthrough. Background Motivation Engineers and architects use CAD files to create, manage, and store building designs and floor plans. CAD files are rich with data, but if you hand a CAD file to a Tableau user who doesn’t have access to a CAD program or a GIS tool, you’re out of luck. That is a shame because a Tableau user could take floor plan data, overlay it with other data, and do some pretty cool things, such as: