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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

Building the Power BI dashboard

Power BI is a Microsoft software for data visualization, allowing the conversion of data from different sources to build interactive dashboards. In our example, we will use the free version, Power BI Desktop, to create a visual report based on the Excel document created in the previous section. Once the data is imported into Power BI, the software allows a multitude of customization and filtering of the information.

Note

For this step, you will use your own created Excel document. Whether you have been using a Revit sample file or a project file of your choice, you can follow the instructions in this section to achieve similar results.

The Revit model check report will consist of two pages; the first page is an overview dashboard, which resumes the data we have previously gathered using the Revit model check Dynamo script (Figure 7.2) and exported to the Excel document shown in Figure 7.24. The following diagram shows the overview dashboard...