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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

Understanding how to publish the dataset

This section will teach us to link the Google spreadsheet to Power BI, which is already mirrored to the Google Form responses. We are talking about a type of connection that will automatically update our charts. How can we do that? Let's see:

  1. Open the Google spreadsheet created previously. If you can't find it, go to your Google Drive using this URL, https://drive.google.com/, and then navigate your drive's folders until you find the Google form or spreadsheet.
  2. If you locate the Google Form file, open the Responses page and click on the green icon in the top-right corner of the main panel. We did the same before. If you have issues, check Figure 12.10.
  3. Once you have the spreadsheet open, click on Publish to the web from the File menu, as shown in the following screenshot:

    Figure 12.14 – Publish to the web feature

  4. Now a new window will pop up. Don't click on the Publish button immediately as the...