Create your own databases with custom materials and products
Last updated: November 01, 2024
Create databases, create products.
Create databases
Databases can be added at account level/folder level/building level.
- From Account, Portfolio or Building level go to General and click on New Database.
- Name the database, add description, and decide if you want the created database to be used as the default selected database on upload.
- Press save.
- Information can be changed by pressing Edit Database Properties or can be deleted by pressing Delete Database.
Invite users
Users can be invited via email and systems connected via API-Token
Adding Users
- In the database, go to tab Users and click Add User.
- Enter E-mail address and allocate permissions to the profile.
- Press save.
Users can be removed from a database (if you have sufficient rights) by pressing the
in their table (bottom right). - Users can be edited from a database (if you have sufficient rights) by pressing the
in their table (bottom right).
Adding API Token
- In the database go to tab Users and click Add API Token.
- Name Token, set permissions and expiration time (life span).
- Press save.
- Tokens can be removed from a database (if you have sufficient rights) by pressing the
in their table (bottom right). - Tokens can be edited from a database (if you have sufficient rights) by pressing the
in their table (bottom right).
Share databases with other accounts, folders, buildings
- Share:
- A database can be shared with multiple accounts, folders or buildings. This makes it possible, for example, for a company to set up a database and make the materials and products available to users from another account. As a shared database, changes and additions made by one user will be visible to all other users of the database.
- Set database rights when sharing:
- When sharing a database, it is necessary to determine the rights with which the users -of the account/folder/building with which you share it- can use the materials and/or products. A database can be shared with four different types of rights:
- Map – shared users can link elements to materials and products to the database.
- Copy – in addition to mapping, shared users can copy materials and products from the database to another database.
- Contribute – in addition to mapping and copying, shared users can add new materials and products to the database.
- Administer – in addition to mapping, copying, and contributing, shared users can manage the rights on the account/folder/building with which this database is shared.
- When sharing a database, it is necessary to determine the rights with which the users -of the account/folder/building with which you share it- can use the materials and/or products. A database can be shared with four different types of rights:
Create and edit products
Madaster distinguishes between five different types of products, namely: volume, area, length, quantity and energy products. The choice for one of these types depends primarily on the available geometric data of the relevant building element in the source file.
- In the database go to register Database and click Add Product
- Enter Product Name and choose product type.
- Volume (e.g. concrete)
- Area (e.g. floor)
- Length (e.g. pipe)
- Quantity (e.g. door hardware)
- Energy (e.g. electricity usage)
- Enter mandatory fields in Product Information Tab. Moreover, define if circularity and environmental values should be calculated from Bill of Materials or not
- Enter information in Circularity Tab
- Enter information in the Environment Tab
- Enter Search Criteria.
- Press on Add Criterion
- Enter Search Criterion (e.g. Name, Description used in BIM Model)
- Press Save
- Enter Financial Information
- Press Save
- Products can be edited, deleted, copied and viewed in the database.
Duplicate and edit products
- Select a Product in the database
- Press Duplicate Element
- Edit Material or Product accordingly
Organize databases
From the Database tab in you database, you can see a table of all products and materials in the database. Each product can be expanded by clicking the arrow down icon
Deleting your database
A database can only be deleted when there are no more products or materials registered to it. Once all the products are deleted from a database, you can click Delete database from the upper toolbar. Click Yes on the confirmation popup if you are sure and the database will be deleted.