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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

Chapter 5: Getting Started with Autodesk Dynamo and Data Gathering

This chapter is written by Luisa Cypriano Pieper

Luisa is an architect, and works as a BIM manager in Spain for CES, a Belgian multinational company specializing in engineering and sustainable development. Luisa is an industry expert, and to me, it has been a pleasure working with her. She will lead the way in understanding the data-gathering part of the workflow to visualize data inside Power BI. She will teach us the fundamentals of visual programming using Autodesk Dynamo BIM.

This chapter is divided into two parts, both explained in a very visual and simple way, so you will realize that learning Dynamo is not rocket science.

In the first part, we will understand what VPL (Visual Programming Language) is, what Dynamo is, and how they can help us automate and qualify data management. We will also learn the basics of how Dynamo's interface and nodes work, what the basic data types are, and how to manage...