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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 6: Importing Revit Plans in Power BI Using Shape Files

This chapter is written by Gavin Crump

Gavin is an architect too and is the founder of a BIM consultancy company working in Australia. Gavin is very active on social media, and thanks to him, I've often learned new ways of doing "things." His level of expertise in design technologies is very high, and I am happy to have worked with him to develop this chapter. Gavin will show us a fantastic workflow on importing Revit plans inside Power BI and making them interactive with the rest of the charts. Enjoy reading!

The overall goal of this chapter is to expose you to the importance of processing Revit elements into a more workable format and how Dynamo is a powerful interoperability tool to facilitate these types of workflows. Shape files are some of the most common vector-based file types used in software and on the web in the present day, and their use will only increase in the future.

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