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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

Understanding visual programming

The goal of this section is to familiarize you with visual programming general concepts. This is key if you want to become an Autodesk Dynamo super user!

The use of images and language to carry instructions over time goes back to the history of human civilizations. We have needed to find ways to communicate instructions so that we always arrive at the same result when forging metal, building bridges, or … cooking omelets. Yes, written recipes date back to the 4th Century AD even for very simple things, such as cooking omelets. The written instruction for an omelet recipe nowadays, for example, would probably look something like this:

  • INPUT: Eggs, salt, and pepper
  • Processing actions:

    a) MIX the eggs, salt, and pepper in a small bowl until blended.

    b) PLACE the mixture in a frying pan with melted butter.

    c) PUSH the cooked portions from the edges toward the center with an inverted turner so that uncooked eggs can touch the hot pan...