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Increasing Autodesk Revit Productivity for BIM Projects

By : Fabio Roberti, Decio Ferreira
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Increasing Autodesk Revit Productivity for BIM Projects

By: Fabio Roberti, Decio Ferreira

Overview of this book

Increasing Autodesk Revit Productivity for BIM Projects takes a hands-on approach to implementing Revit effectively for everyone curious about this new and exciting methodology. Complete with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts and practical examples, this Revit book begins by explaining the principles of productivity in Revit and data management for BIM projects. You'll get to grips with the primary BIM documentation to start a BIM project, including the contract, Exchange Information Requirements (EIR), and BIM Execution Plan (BEP/BXP). Later, you'll create a Revit template, start a Revit project, and explore the core functionalities of Revit to increase productivity. Once you've built the foundation, you'll learn about Revit plugins and use Dynamo for visual programming and Power BI for analyzing BIM information. By the end of this book, you'll have a solid understanding of Revit as construction and design software, how to increase productivity in Revit, and how to apply multiple workflows in your project to manage BIM.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Section 1: Enhancing Your Productivity in Revit with Data Management and Templates
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Section 2: Setting Up Revit Projects Efficiently and Exploring Core Functionalities
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Section 3: Adding Visualizations and Dashboards to Your Data
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Section 4: Collaborating with Consultants and Plugins and Improving Revit Performance

Introduction to Power BI for Revit

Power BI is a software developed by Microsoft that has a vast collection of software services, apps, and connectors developed to work together and make sure that the data gathered can be shown in a coherent, visual, and interactive way through different dashboards. The data can be brought in in different ways, from various sources, and analyzed in different ways.

As Microsoft Power BI has different versions, tools, and apps, we will be using the free version: Microsoft Power BI Desktop.

All the different versions of Microsoft Power BI can be found at the following link:

https://bit.ly/3qVVi7U

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Installing Microsoft Power BI Desktop

The process of getting the application is quite simple and straightforward. By accessing the Microsoft Power BI web page, it will be possible to get the software and version the users want to get or subscribe.

As mentioned before, we recommend getting Microsoft Power BI...