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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

Section 3: Deep Dive into Autodesk Dynamo

Section 3 is the final part of the book and will be a completely hands-on section where you will get your hands dirty with the various exciting workflows available in Dynamo. I will guide you in setting up the tools, while teaching you more advanced data science skills. Along the way, we will create both Dynamo scripts and Power BI dashboards, exploring more and more features and software customizations. Indeed, this section will include a deep dive into Dynamo data types with a view to understanding more advanced workflows. Next, we will use our skills to create a script that places families inside the Revit model. Before the end, we will learn how to gather data from multiple Revit models at once and visualize that data inside Power BI. The last chapter will focus on Power BI, showcasing a workflow that collects information using a Google form and creating a live connection to our dashboards. You will have a lot of fun!

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