Mello Engine

Automated processing and publishing of CAD, BIM and GIS files to ArcGIS Online.

Client: Mello Engine
Our role: Platform design and development.

Owner to confirm: client name or confidentiality, engagement period, data volumes and any measured time saved.

Illustration of Mello Engine: Automated processing and publishing of CAD, BIM and GIS files to ArcGIS Online — Illustration based on the project brief, not a screenshot of the product.

Engineering teams keep AutoCAD drawings, BIM models and GIS files in Autodesk Construction Cloud and SharePoint. Getting them onto web maps was a manual, repeated job.

Files change often, so published GIS layers went out of date unless someone reprocessed and republished them by hand.

Platform design and development: connectors, ArcPy processing, publishing, scheduling and the React dashboard

Connectors pull DWG, BIM and GIS files from Autodesk Construction Cloud and SharePoint.
ArcPy geoprocessing validates and converts the data, then publishes it to ArcGIS Online.
Webhooks and scheduled jobs detect source changes and republish automatically.
A React dashboard shows processing status and history.

Frontend: React
Backend: Python, Django, Django REST Framework, Flask
Database: PostgreSQL
GIS: ArcPy, ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS API for Python, ArcGIS Online
Cloud: Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Functions, Azure Blob Storage, Azure Service Bus
Integrations: Autodesk Construction Cloud API, Microsoft Graph API, ArcGIS REST API