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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

Updating data in Excel

As we have already mentioned, once we have completed our script to export data from Revit to Excel and clicked Run, an Excel tab will open, similar to the following screenshot:

Figure 5.28 – Data exported to Excel

This data is coming from the door instances that Dynamo found inside the Revit model. We now want to update that data by making a couple of changes and then importing the updated data back to Revit. To accomplish this, we will modify a number of values as seen in the following screenshot:

Figure 5.29 – Excel with value parameters modified

I've created an Excel table on that data. This will let us see the data a little bit more clearly. As we said previously, we want to update the description, manufacturer, and cost of those doors. Also, we can update geometric parameters including Height, Width, and Thickness. So, change those values as you want, and when you are satisfied with the...