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Managing and Visualizing Your BIM Data

By : Ernesto Pellegrino, Manuel André Bottiglieri, Gavin Crump, Luisa Cypriano Pieper, Dounia Touil
Book Image

Managing and Visualizing Your BIM Data

By: Ernesto Pellegrino, Manuel André Bottiglieri, Gavin Crump, Luisa Cypriano Pieper, Dounia Touil

Overview of this book

Business intelligence software has rapidly spread its roots in the AEC industry during the last few years. This has happened due to the presence of rich digital data in BIM models whose datasets can be gathered, organized, and visualized through software such as Autodesk Dynamo BIM and Power BI. Managing and Visualizing Your BIM Data helps you understand and implement computer science fundamentals to better absorb the process of creating Dynamo scripts and visualizing the collected data on powerful dashboards. This book provides a hands-on approach and associated methodologies that will have you productive and up and running in no time. After understanding the theoretical aspects of computer science and related topics, you will focus on Autodesk Dynamo to develop scripts to manage data. Later, the book demonstrates four case studies from AEC experts across the world. In this section, you’ll learn how to get started with Autodesk Dynamo to gather data from a Revit model and create a simple C# plugin for Revit to stream data on Power BI directly. As you progress, you’ll explore how to create dynamic Power BI dashboards using Revit floor plans and make a Power BI dashboard to track model issues. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned how to develop a script to gather a model’s data and visualize datasets in Power BI easily.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Section 1: Overview of Digitalization and BIM Data
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Section 2: Examples and Case Studies from Experts around the World
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Section 3: Deep Dive into Autodesk Dynamo

Building the form

This section will teach you how to build your form and prepare it to stream data to Power BI. I've also tried to replicate the workflow using services such as Microsoft Flow and OneDrive, but I then chose Google services to complete it. The reason is that to achieve the same workflow, you will need a Microsoft business account as Micorosft Flow can't be accessed by users with personal accounts.

To be honest, this is a bit disappointing, as many people perhaps don't have a business account to try out those services. Microsoft Flow is fascinating as it could allow the creation of smart widgets to place on our phones, and that's pretty cool. Flow belongs to a software family type called IFTTT. IFTTT is an acronym, and it means IF THIS THEN THAT. Like any other IFTTT tool, Microsoft Flow can be connected to various online services, such as emails, spreadsheets, databases, sensors, and many different fantastic kinds of stuff. I suggest you learn...