It has been a while since my last post, and surprisingly, I have been very busy working from home with all sorts of projects, software development and online training/consultancy engagements. It is good to know the world is still turning!
Anyway, perhaps some of you have less demands on your time and something I wanted to share was the ‘easy’ method of extracting data and metrics from your Revit models without expensive software or Dynamo skills. When we think/talk about BIMs the important part is really the information that is held within your very expensive Revit models. Only a select few have the privilege of looking into this sea of data. In this tutorial we will take a look at how you can extract some basic information from Revit and present this in meaningful ways using MS Power Bi. You could do some of these things just with MS Excel, but MS Power Bi is much better a presenting and sharing data visualisations.
Part 1 of this tutorial writes data to MS Excel and Part 2…