Managing and Visualizing Your BIM Data / Ernesto Pellegrino [and four others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pellegrino, Ernesto, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information visualization.

Visual analytics.

Building information modeling.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (436 pages)

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Publishing, 2021.

Summary:

Learn how to make optimum use of your BIM data using Dynamo to make better design decisions and create feature-rich dashboards using Power BI to track your model's data Key Features A go-to guide for AEC professionals to analyze and manage their data Explore popular use cases and best practices from experts around the world Create efficient dashboards using Dynamo and Power BI Book Description 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. What you will learn Understand why businesses across the world are moving toward data-driven models Build a data bridge between BIM models and web-based dashboards Get to grips with Autodesk Dynamo with the help of multiple step-by-step exercises Focus on data gathering workflows with Dynamo Connect Power BI to different datasets Get hands-on experience in data management, analysis, and visualization techniques with guidance from experts across the world Who this book is for This book is for BIM managers, BIM coordinators, design technology managers, and all AEC professionals who want to learn Autodesk Dynamo to analyze, manage, and visualize their BIM data as well as understand some associated computer science topics. You need to have a background in BIM and knowledge of what a BIM model is to make the most of this book.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright and Credits

Contributors

Table of Contents

Preface

Section 1: Overview of Digitalization and BIM Data

Chapter 1: Introducing Units of Digital Information

Exploring the beginning of the digitization era

Learning how simple digital data is

Getting to know types of digital data

Understanding how much data we produce

Learning about hybrid jobs

Summary

Chapter 2: Understanding Data Centers

Understanding data centers

Learning the different types of cloud solutions

Introducing the first data center in history, ENIAC

Learning about The Citadel and Project Natick

Getting started with Power BI

Setting up Power BI and exploring the World Happiness Report

Creating your first dashboard

Customizing and filtering the chart

Chapter 3: Warming Up Your Data Visualization Engines

Getting started with data visualization

Scatter plot

Column chart

Bar chart

Stacked bar chart

Line chart

Pie chart

Radar chart

Waterfall chart

Why analyzing BIM data is important

Exploring Microsoft Power BI charts

Downloading and importing the dataset

Formatting the other values

Creating the column chart

Creating a waterfall chart

Creating a line chart

Section 2: Examples and Case Studies from Experts around the World

Chapter 4: Building a Data Bridge between BIM Models and Web-Based Dashboards

Technical requirements

Installing Visual Studio Community

Identifying the problem

Creating your first Revit plugin

Understanding the environment

Configuring dotnet framework and PresentationCore.dll

Installing the Revit dll

Updating your local repository

Updating the RibbonBar.cs file

Testing the plugin startup

Exploring the toolbar

Preparing Microsoft Power BI

Building the Power BI report

Visualizing the data in Power BI

Publishing and sharing your final report

Chapter 5: Getting Started with Autodesk Dynamo and Data Gathering

Understanding visual programming

Introducing Autodesk Dynamo BIM for Revit

Understanding the Dynamo UI and its basic components

Menus

The upper-right corner

Library

Execution bar

Nodes

Node states

Types of data

Setting up the environment

Exporting data from Revit

Updating data in Excel

Importing data back into Revit

Further reading

Chapter 6: Importing Revit Plans in Power BI Using Shape Files

Setting up Dynamo

What are shape files?

Writing our data sources for Power BI

Understanding the script UI window using the Data-Shapes package

Collecting and filtering all the Revit rooms

Exporting room data to Excel

Processing room boundary geometry

Generating the Shape file

Manipulating the shape file to include metadata

Setting up Power BI with the Synoptic Panel

Visualizing our data in Power BI

Summary

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Chapter 7: Creating a Revit Model-Check Dashboard Using Dynamo and Power BI.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781523142156

1523142154

9781801073981

1801073988

OCLC:

1283858776