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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 11: Visualizing Data from Multiple Models in Power BI

Here we are – Chapter 11! This chapter will use the previously gathered data from multiple Revit models to create great Power BI dashboards.

During the previous Chapter 10, Gathering a Revit Model's Data from Multiple Models at Once, we collected a lot of information from six different Revit files. This time, we will use those datasets to create other charts to have a dashboard that will give us a consistent and complete overview of every project.

Also, we will learn how to take advantage of the project addresses to create a Power BI map showing the location of each model. In the end, this will be great also for presenting our work to clients, partners, and colleagues.

Today, indeed, I use Power BI to show our work to partners and clients to show the result of managing and visualizing vast BIM datasets

This chapter will talk about importing data, formatting, creating charts, and visualizing project...