Autodesk Revit Architecture 2013: No Experience Required - Softcover

Wing, Eric

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1118255941 ISBN 13: 9781118255940

Publisher: Sybex, 2012

Synopsis

Introducing the only continuous, step-by-step tutorial for Revit Architecture

Revit is the industry-leading Building Information Modeling (BIM) software package, noted for its power and sophistication. This is the only book to teach Revit basics using a continuous, real-world tutorial that covers each phase of designing, documenting, and presenting a four-story office building. Revit newcomers will quickly learn the essentials through concise explanations, focused examples, and step-by-step instructions for an actual project, modeling each step of a real structure from placing walls and windows to creating roofs, stairs, and railings.

• Presents the industry-leading BIM software in an easy-to-follow tutorial developed by a Revit expert who has trained thousands of architects and engineers
• Introduces the interface and Revit conventions, then moves into modeling a four-story building, showing how to use Revit tools for views, grids, and editing
• Tutorial progresses just as a real project would, including placing walls, doors, and windows to working with structural grids, beams, and foundations; building floors and joining them to walls; and creating roofs and ceilings
• Shows how to add text and dimensions, use dimensions as a design tool, generate construction documentation, and create schedules and material takeoffs
• Explores crucial site considerations, Revit's rendering capabilities, how to import and export to various formats, and many more advanced features

Autodesk Revit Architecture: No Experience Required takes newcomers step by step through this leading BIM software with a real-world project that enhances understanding.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Learn Revit Architecture with this engaging, hands-on introduction to Autodesk's powerful BIM software. Through an extended, continuous, easy-to-follow tutorial, you'll learn Revit by planning and developing a four-story office building from design to documentation to presentation. Follow each step sequentially or skip straight to specific skills you'd like to learn by downloading just those drawing files from the companion website. Either way, you'll get a thorough grounding in Revit basics and quickly master the tools and techniques that professionals use all the time.

• Learn Revit by designing a four-story office building from start to finish

• Start at the ground level by setting a foundation, structural beams, and footings

• Master the exciting new features in Revit Architecture 2013

• Understand best practices for models, views, dimensions, families, editing, and more

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

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

• Create custom stairs and railings that look great in commercial and high-end residential settings

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

• Impress your customers by lighting, rendering, and presenting your designs in 3D

Learn how to quickly create incredibly realistic renderings

See how the robust Detail Component library of Revit allows you to seamlessly move from modeling to drafting

Create custom stairs and railings appropriate for both commercial and residential settings

About the Author

Architectural engineer Eric Wing is the BIM Manager at C&S Companies, a Syracuse, New York, engineering firm. He is also Director of the Autodesk User Group International (AUGI) Training Program, author of four books, and Revit columnist for AUGIWorld magazine, AUGI HotNews, and ConnectPress. Eric is a popular speaker at Autodesk University and the American Council of Engineering Companies, as well as at industry events and conferences sponsored by the American Institute of Architects, the Construction Specifications Institute, and AUGI user groups. He also teaches BIM for Facility Management at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT).

Edition details

• Publisher: Sybex
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1118255941
• ISBN 13: 9781118255940
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1056