Product Description

This innovative book shows how building design strengths and methods can be used and applied with Autodesk® Revit® Building. Coverage explores the ways in which Revit Building handles design and documentation tasks and the advantages it presents for creating fully integrated building information models. Tutorial exercises early in the book illustrate how Autodesk Revit Building can be combined effectively with AutoCAD® and Architectural Desktop® drawings to make the best use of existing files and work practices. Numerous other exercises illustrate how to use Revit Building's sophisticated and robust capabilities as a full-featured architectural design tool- sketched massing objects that convert to building elements, configurable components, automatic coordination of all parts of the building model with views and annotations, simply controlled yet detailed graphic representation and output, strong data management via schedules, and color diagrams.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #540494 in Books
• Published on: 2005-09-07
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 632 pages

About the Author
Lay Christopher Fox is currently the President of ARCHimage CAD Services, an independent design and consulting firm based in South Australia. He is the Revit Technical Editor for AUGIWorld magazine, and has been past president of the Rochester (NY) Area AutoCAD Users Group and an adjunct professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Chris spent many years providing drafting and CAD management for residential, commercial and institutional design firms in the US and Australia. He has written official Revit courseware for Autodesk, and leads classes and implementation programs for design/engineering firms across Australia.

James J. Balding, AIA, is a project architect with WATG and has over 20 years of experience in architectural design, development, and construction documents. Jim has been an industry leader in the integration of architecture and technology. Most recently, he developed a successful Revit implementation strategy at WATG and has been actively involved in the implementation of a global solution across the company’s seven offices worldwide. Jim served 5 years as the Revit Product Chair for Autodesk Users Group International (AUGI), as well as 5 years as the president of the South Coast Revit Users Group (SCRUG). Jim is currently the director of WATG’s technology R&D department – WimberlyLabs.

Customer Reviews

Revit Text Book
This is a good text. However, it wasn't the latest edition. It would have been nice to see an edition in the product description not receive the product before you realize it is an older version.

Very Basic
This book didn't really help me a whole lot because it's a little too basic in terms of teaching you how to figure out the program. But it does do a good job of explaining the very basic features and benefits of using Autodesk Revit

great resource book
this book helped me on the first day it arrived. i needed help on how to "model" a curtain wall. there it was. the steps that the book went into detail were very good. i keep this book at my desk at work!