Chapter 5: Getting Started with Autodesk Dynamo and Data Gathering

This chapter is written by Luisa Cypriano Pieper

Luisa is an architect, and works as a BIM manager in Spain for CES, a Belgian multinational company specializing in engineering and sustainable development. Luisa is an industry expert, and to me, it has been a pleasure working with her. She will lead the way in understanding the data-gathering part of the workflow to visualize data inside Power BI. She will teach us the fundamentals of visual programming using Autodesk Dynamo BIM.

This chapter is divided into two parts, both explained in a very visual and simple way, so you will realize that learning Dynamo is not rocket science.

In the first part, we will understand what VPL (Visual Programming Language) is, what Dynamo is, and how they can help us automate and qualify data management. We will also learn the basics of how Dynamo's interface and nodes work, what the basic data types are, and how to manage...