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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

Setting up Dynamo

In this section, we are going to overview the packages needed to build the Dynamo script.

For this chapter, the report has been produced using Revit 2020, currently at build 2.3.0 at the time of this publication. Dynamo is available with this version of Revit by default and can be found in Revit under the Manage tab.

The script may be reproducible in lower builds of Dynamo, but it is likely some changes will be required depending on the features available to that respective build. The following image indicates the custom packages used to produce this script and achieve the required outputs:

Figure 6.1 – Dynamo custom packages

Here we can see one of the packages, Crumple, in the Dynamo script:

Figure 6.2 – Crumple in the Dynamo script

Later builds of these packages should work also, but for the best results, these builds will be most suitable to use. Now it is the time to download the required packages...