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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

Visualizing our data in Power BI

Once the script has been run for each relevant level in the model, you should have the following files for each level:

  • An Excel file, which you must load as a Data Source in Power BI.
  • A shape file, which you must nominate as the source for the Synoptic Panel.

Here are the steps to set up your Synoptic Panel custom visual in the report:

  1. Click the custom visual button under the Visualizations tab.
  2. Select the visual on the Power BI report canvas that has been placed as a result of the previous step.
  3. Click on the Change button that appears at the top left, and navigate to your shape file for the building level you are reporting for. You should now see your floor plan as a collection of 2D shapes in Power BI.
  4. In the Category and Measure fields of the visual, assign the Id field from your Excel data source. The shapes in your visual should now be connected to your data source.

A possible layout for a Power BI...