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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

Section 2: Examples and Case Studies from Experts around the World

In this part of the book, you will receive an overview of the tools and processes for managing and analyzing data by reading examples from experts worldwide! These brilliant colleagues will teach us various subjects, starting from building a C# plugin to streaming data from Revit to Power BI. In addition, you will learn how to create Autodesk Dynamo data-gathering scripts, how to import Revit plans in Power BI and link them to charts, and how to create a model check dashboard to obtain an overview of model issues.

This section comprises the following chapters:

  • Chapter 4, Building a Data Bridge between BIM Models and Web-Based Dashboards
  • Chapter 5, Getting Started with Autodesk Dynamo and Data Gathering
  • Chapter 6, Importing Revit Plans in Power BI Using Shape Files
  • Chapter 7, Creating a Revit - Model Check Dashboard Using Dynamo and Power BI