These three authors are a virtual “dream team” of Revit Structure expertise and industry knowledge.
—From the Foreword by Nicolas Mangon, Building Industry Director, Autodesk, Inc.
Structure Your Designs the Revit Way
Whether you're a structural engineer, designer, or draftsperson, now you can become quickly productive in Revit Structure 2010 with this comprehensive guide. The expert author team combines years of engineering and Revit experience to give you detailed instruction in basic concepts and professional techniques, while also revealing Revit tricks, tips, and workarounds not well documented elsewhere.
Learn how to model structural elements, then delve into advanced family creation, standards development, modeling, visualizing, and analytics. Explore Revit Structure 2010's enhanced worksharing capabilities, the newly updated user interface, and improved interoperability with other programs. Packed with real-world solutions and striking examples in full color, this is your indispensable guide to Revit Structure.
Coverage includes:
- Understanding how parametric modeling frees you to focus on your designs
- Exploring the broad array of tools in Revit Structure's user interface
- Viewing and referencing plan, section, elevation, and model views—simultaneously—while you design
- Applying scheduling, annotation, and dimensioning info as you go, for speedier workflows
- Creating and presenting 3D visualizations that bring your designs to life
- Using analytical tools to test and simulate, then refine your designs
- Adding custom content and building your own component libraries