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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)
1
Section 1: Overview of Digitalization and BIM Data
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Section 2: Examples and Case Studies from Experts around the World
10
Section 3: Deep Dive into Autodesk Dynamo

Creating the charts

Now the fun begins! We have imported a dataset coming from multiple Revit models, and we have done an excellent job with the "cleaning" stuff so far. Let's now create the charts one by one and customize them in terms of fonts, colors, and shapes.

Creating the table chart

The first chart we will create is the table chart, which is simple yet powerful. To create the chart, perform the following steps:

  1. The first chart to drop is Table. Click on the table icon under the Visualizations pane on the right-hand side of the Power BI user interface.

    Figure 11.17 – Placing the table chart

    As you can see, the table chart is pretty straightforward. We will use it to create a small table containing values such as the model's name, the client's name, and the location.

  2. Once you place the table chart, go to the Values panel and insert the following columns:
    • Filename
    • Client name
    • City

      The following screenshot shows where to find them. You...