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Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2010
Revit is rapidly gaining momentum in the architecture industry, and new comers may be frustrated to find learning materials somewhat limited for getting up to speed quickly. Paul Aubin's, Mastering Revit Architecture 2010 is currently the best book available for drafters and designers entering into BIM design.
"Mastering" in the title is a bit misleading as this book reads more as a thorough, but high level overview of the program. More subtle topics such as the conceptual massing environment, family editor, and rendering capabilities of Revit are touched on, but not covered in great depth (although Mr. Aubin does often cite sources for further reading). Hopefully Mr. Aubin will delve more into these aspects in an additional volume, may I suggest the title, "Beyond Mastering Revit Jedi Architecture Rock Star Mind Tricks and Riffs 2012: The missing bible for dummies" which ought to about cover publishers latest titling trends.
After spending time with several other "mastering" Revit volumes, I finally got comfortable and inside the program with this book. Mr. Aubin organizes topics rationally and builds concepts slowly, he uses both step by step tutorials and general discussion to teach his lessons. I noticed immediately that there was more flow and sense to the subject matter due to there being one author. Some other efforts involving multiple authors have come across as disjointed and confused. Mr. Aubin maintains a consistent tone and style, knows what is in the rest of his book and will refer you back or forward to other topics where it is relevant for his discussion. The sequence of the book was so well thought out in fact (except for conceptual massing at the end) that I sat down with it at the beginning of a recent project and just worked through the book and my project sequentially at the same time. The project turned out great, and the hook has been set for me to want to use Revit more. Thank you Mr. Aubin for a sincere and solid effort on this exciting new software.
"Mastering" in the title is a bit misleading as this book reads more as a thorough, but high level overview of the program. More subtle topics such as the conceptual massing environment, family editor, and rendering capabilities of Revit are touched on, but not covered in great depth (although Mr. Aubin does often cite sources for further reading). Hopefully Mr. Aubin will delve more into these aspects in an additional volume, may I suggest the title, "Beyond Mastering Revit Jedi Architecture Rock Star Mind Tricks and Riffs 2012: The missing bible for dummies" which ought to about cover publishers latest titling trends.
After spending time with several other "mastering" Revit volumes, I finally got comfortable and inside the program with this book. Mr. Aubin organizes topics rationally and builds concepts slowly, he uses both step by step tutorials and general discussion to teach his lessons. I noticed immediately that there was more flow and sense to the subject matter due to there being one author. Some other efforts involving multiple authors have come across as disjointed and confused. Mr. Aubin maintains a consistent tone and style, knows what is in the rest of his book and will refer you back or forward to other topics where it is relevant for his discussion. The sequence of the book was so well thought out in fact (except for conceptual massing at the end) that I sat down with it at the beginning of a recent project and just worked through the book and my project sequentially at the same time. The project turned out great, and the hook has been set for me to want to use Revit more. Thank you Mr. Aubin for a sincere and solid effort on this exciting new software.
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