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Managing and Visualizing Your BIM Data

You're reading from   Managing and Visualizing Your BIM Data Understand the fundamentals of computer science for data visualization using Autodesk Dynamo, Revit, and Microsoft Power BI

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801073981
Length 436 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dounia Touil Dounia Touil
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Gavin Crump Gavin Crump
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Ernesto Pellegrino Ernesto Pellegrino
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Manuel André Bottiglieri Manuel André Bottiglieri
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Luisa Cypriano Pieper Luisa Cypriano Pieper
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Overview of Digitalization and BIM Data
2. Chapter 1: Introducing Units of Digital Information FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Understanding Data Centers 4. Chapter 3: Warming Up Your Data Visualization Engines 5. Section 2: Examples and Case Studies from Experts around the World
6. Chapter 4: Building a Data Bridge between BIM Models and Web-Based Dashboards 7. Chapter 5: Getting Started with Autodesk Dynamo and Data Gathering 8. Chapter 6: Importing Revit Plans in Power BI Using Shape Files 9. Chapter 7: Creating a Revit Model-Check Dashboard Using Dynamo and Power BI 10. Section 3: Deep Dive into Autodesk Dynamo
11. Chapter 8: Deep Dive into Dynamo Data Types 12. Chapter 9: Using Dynamo to Place Family Instances 13. Chapter 10: Gathering a Revit Model's Data from Multiple Models at Once 14. Chapter 11: Visualizing Data from Multiple Models in Power BI 15. Chapter 12: Having Fun with Power BI 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating the data collector script

Let's start by opening Revit to create a new empty model. We will use an empty model just to start Dynamo, as we will ask Dynamo to open multiple Revit models in the background.

Follow these simple steps to start things out:

  1. Open Dynamo and create a new script file.
  2. Although it's empty, save the file in a folder on your PC.

    Important Note

    It's good practice to keep a saved file and make sure to save the file regularly as Dynamo can sometimes freeze, and you will lose your work. It's happened to me several times, and it's not a pleasant feeling, to be honest!

  3. Set the running mode to Manual for now.

Perfect – we're ready to continue. The first thing I would like to do is collect model information, and once we have that, we can send that data to a new list of items. We will do that for every category of information we will collect from those models. In the end, we will have a list made up...

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