Autodesk Revit Architecture 2011: No Experience Required - Softcover

Wing, Eric

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470610115 ISBN 13: 9780470610114

Publisher: Sybex, 2010

Synopsis

Learn Revit Architecture step by step with this project-based tutorial

Revit Architecture is the leading Building Information Modeling (BIM) software for architects and others in related fields. Written by renowned Revit trainer Eric Wing, this simple, yet engaging tutorial teaches you the program's basics.

You'll find concise explanations, focused examples, step-by-step instructions, and an engaging hands-on tutorial project that will take you from an introduction to the interface and Revit conventions right in to modeling a four-story office building.

• Explains views, grids, and the program's editing capabilities, and then progresses as the building's design would in the real world
• Encourages you to work with structural grids, beams, and foundations and shows you how to add text and dimensions, as well as understand how to use dimensions as a design tool
• Walks you through building floors layer by layer and joining them to exterior and interior walls, and creating and editing roofs and ceilings as well as stairs, ramps, and railings

Even with no experience, Revit Architecture and its accompanying Web site will support you as you learn Revit at your own pace.

 

About this title

About the Author

Eric Wing is an architectural engineer and has been in the AEC field for 15 years. He has extensive experience managing, teaching, and presenting Autodesk applications, and is currently the BIM Support Manager at C&S Companies, an engineering firm in Syracuse, New York. Eric is also director of the Autodesk User Group International (AUGI) Training Program, author of two books, and Revit columnist for AUGIWorld magazine, AUGI HotNews, and ConnectPress.

From the Back Cover

Autodesk Revit Architecture 2011: No Experience Required is the perfect hands-on, step-by-step introduction to Autodesk's revolutionary Revit Architecture software. Through a continuous, easy-to-follow tutorial, you'll learn Revit by planning and developing a four-story office building—doing everything from designing to documenting to presenting the final project. Follow the tutorial sequentially or jump in at any chapter by downloading the drawing files from the companion website. Either way, you'll get a thorough grounding in Revit's tools and quickly master tasks that professionals face all the time.

• Understand file types, families, views, editing, and other essential aspects of Revit

• Start from the ground up by setting a foundation, structural beams, and footings

• Plan and create walls, doors, windows, floors, ceilings, and more

• Add rooms, choose colors, and design areas and area separators

• Finish your site with landscaping, curbing, parking, and walkways

• Create documentation, track revisions, and learn the dos and don'ts of printing

• Work with different formats, such as CAD, IFC, Revit Structure, and others

• Create specialty items not included with Revit

• Experiment with completed, advanced families as you model each portion of the project

Design a custom millwork themed room, then render it to show lighting and spacial considerations

Learn how to detail by blending both the true Revit model and your own "hand drafting" techniques

See how to add topography and site components and then display these features in plan and 3D

Edition details

• Publisher: Sybex
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0470610115
• ISBN 13: 9780470610114
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 984