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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

Preface

The book aims to give practical skills to those working in the AEC field who want to learn data visualization skills. Each chapter will focus on a specific subject to help you to master the use of Autodesk Dynamo and Power BI to gather, manage, and visualize BIM data. Along the way, we will talk about various IT subjects that are fundamental to understand for you to grasp what is going on behind the scenes.

The book is divided into three sections. The first one is a bit more theoretical. The second one showcases examples from colleagues worldwide of how to manage and visualize a model's data. The third section is all about creating scripts and visualizing data. Throughout the book, you will also see a lot of memes that have been hand-drawn by myself and my partner in life, Vanessa De Vivo, who works as a freelance illustrator. Those memes will break up the book's seriousness from time to time and hopefully make you smile while learning.