Revit Architecture 2010: No Experience Required (Paperback)

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Author and Revit Architecture expert Eric Wing walks you through designing, documenting, and presenting a four-story office building. The continuous tutorial begins with the Revit interface and standard conventions for placing walls, doors, and windows, then progresses through the buildings design as would happen in the real world. Youll learn how to work with structural grids, beams, and foundations; add text and dimensions; build floors layer by layer; join exterior and interior walls; and create roofs and ceilings as well as stairs, ramps, and railings. Youll also be introduced to using embedded families and formulas, crucial site considerations, and importing and exporting to various formats.

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Revit Architecture 2010: No Experience Required is the perfect hands-on, step-by-step introduction to the very latest version of 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

Learn how to model complex staircases and create beautiful, lifelike renders

See how to use Revit's comprehensive detailing capabilities

Understand Revit's robust site and topographical modeling capabilities

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Product Details

• Paperback: 984 pages
• Publisher: Sybex (May 11, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470447222
• ISBN-13: 978-0470447222
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.4 x 2.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #12,255 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent presentation of RAC 2010 for beginners as well as intemediate users, May 9, 2009

By	lenny12458 (Miami,Florida.) - See all my reviews

This is an excellent book.
Mr. Wing should be commended for presenting the information organized in a systematic way in which by the end of each Chapter you will have a clear understanding of what was covered and what you should have learned.
It is obvious, by the approach of this book that the Author is not just a teacher of Revit but has actually used it in an office setting for production purposes. This is the only book that I have on this subject where I can tell that author has us; the working everyday Architects in mind when presenting the information.
The book is set up so that you (right from chapter one) begin the process of creating a building. You are directed and instructed on how each command works as it comes up during the process of creating the model.
Unlike other books on the subject the author limits the amount of required reading but adds plenty of images to make points. I learn visually as I believe many other Architects do. You are first explained what it is that you are about to do and then you proceed to follow step by step on how to do it, at the end of the exercise you get a final review with additional comments for additional comprehension.
Although the book is not as comprehensive as the Aubin books, the two books would work well together. Aubin's book although excellent in my opinion are a little to wordy, sometimes frustrating me because it is very easy to miss a step by getting caught up on information which would be better left for after you complete the task.
Again this is in my opinion where this book trumps all the others. The author guides you and once you actually learned or figured out what it was that you were doing are you given more information BECAUSE NOW YOU ARE CAPABLE OF DIGESTING IT.!!!!!
If I was to rank the books on Revit Architecture I would rank this book and Aubin's as the top two 1a and 1b. L. C. Fox I would rank as number 2, the Stine books are excellent for a beginners and I would rank those # 3.
Most of the rest are not worth the money I spent on them.
I encourage Mr. Wing to give us another book on the more sophisticated portions of Revit such as content(family)creation, the use of the new 2010 way of making mass objects, specialty walls, custom doors, custom windows, etc. If presented in the same organized ways as RAC 2010 No Experience Required it will be a winner.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars 's okay, June 14, 2009

By	Monkhouse Monk (Northern Colorado) - See all my reviews

What with the interface changes and what I have forgotten since I took the Revit class at the local CC, I felt the need to refresh my Revit skills. This book was the only one available that addressed the 2010 release.

As a refresher, it is fine. It might not be adequate for a complete novice, though: there are a few cases where the instructions refer to the old interface and a few where the instructions are inaccurate. The strangest thing is that "east" and "west" are often reversed. Unfortunately, they are not always reversed, so one must consider each directional reference on its own.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, June 8, 2009

By	Michael Mc Sweeney - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book is written from a practical work-flow viewpoint which helps the reader to start from a blank sheet as it were, and continue through to detailed plotted drawings to meet the standard one expects. This is a practical guide to using the software with no exaggerated frilly descriptions or endless variations of the same tool/command one is accustomed to in a manual. The book's project cleverly incorporates most, if not all, of the regular details in a building or project we all deal with in our daily work and not necessarily an exaggerated project we might aspire to. This book is more about the building than the software, as BIM should be. The author's sense of humor throughout is noteworthy, and appreciated.