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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

Technical requirements

For this chapter, we require the following software:

  • Excel: We will need to have it properly installed and licensed. Any version of Excel will do.
  • Revit: We will also need Revit properly installed and licensed. You can download any of the versions available on the Autodesk website here: https://www.autodesk.com/
  • You need to log in first. If you don't have an Autodesk account, go ahead and create one. Once ready and logged in, you should click on your profile in the top-right corner, select Products and Services, and finally navigate to Revit to download it.
  • The entire script here has been developed using Dynamo version 2.4. I recommend that you use this build of Autodesk Dynamo, but, if you have a future version installed, you should not have any problems following the exercises. Earlier versions, on the other hand, will probably not be compatible with the chapter's exercises.
  • To check what version of Dynamo you're currently...