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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

Working with strings (searching and replacing)

Now that we understand how to concatenate strings, let's see how to do more complex operations. First of all, open up Revit, and start a new project file using one of the samples provided by default. If you don't see any, do not worry. You can download the one you like from the following link:

Revit 2020 samples: https://cutt.ly/rmxQloL.

I've downloaded the DACH_sample_project.rvt file. But again, you can choose whatever you like. Once you download the model, open it inside Revit. If you're using Revit 2021, you need to wait a few minutes to upgrade the model. Then, of course, open Dynamo too. The goal here is to create a script that helps us rename family type names inside our model. And by doing so, we will learn how to split, join, and replace strings along the way.

Also, you may want to download, using the Package Manager, the following package:

  • Clockwork

If you don't remember how to...