Product Description

This book was designed for the architectural student using Autodesk Revit Building 9. Throughout the book the student develops a single family residence. The drawings start with the floor plans and develop all the way to photo-realistic renderings like the one on the cover.

Table of Contents

1. GETTING STARTED WITH AUTODESK REVIT BUILDING 9
2. Lake Cabin: FLOOR PLAN (The Basics)
3. Overview of Linework and Modify Tools
4. Drawing 2D Architectural Objects
5. Residence: FLOOR PLAN (First Floor)
6. Residence: FLOOR PLANS (Second Floor & Basement Plans)
7. Residence: ROOF
8. Residence: FLOOR SYSTEMS & REFLECTED CEILING PLANS
9. Residence: ELEVATIONS
10. Residence: SECTIONS
11. Residence: FLOOR PLAN FEATURES
12. Residence: SCHEDULES
13. Residence: PHOTO-REALISTIC RENDERING
14. Residence: CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS SET

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #565080 in Books
• Published on: 2006-05-30
• Binding: Paperback
• 451 pages

About the Author
Daniel John Stine is a registered architect with fourteen years experience in the architectural field. He currently works at LHB in Duluth, Minnesota as the CADD Administrator. Dan has worked in four firms total. While at these firms, he has participated in collaborative projects with several other firms on various projects. All of these firms have their own CAD standards and customization. This has given Dan a fairly well rounded knowledge of optimizing and implementing CAD standards, customization and document organization. He teaches CAD classes at Lake Superior College, for the Architectural Technology Program.

Customer Reviews

Good step-by-step instructions for the beginner
We have used this text in our Intro to Revit course (the course assumes you have some previous knowledge of CAD). It teaches Revit by providing step-by-step instructions to build a simple house. At least for me, that seems to work very well in getting one up to speed fairly quickly.

This really is an 'Intro' text; it does not cover any of the more advanced topics, e.g., site layout, curtain systems, structural, or sweeps. Nonetheless, if you're new to Revit, either as an Architectural Desktop convert or just new to 3D, it will work well in getting you up and running in short order.

On the downside, there are more than the usual number of typos, misspellings, incorrect or missing instructions, and grammar errors. Seriously, dude, get a proofreader. All of this is annoying and indicative of the overall decay of language skills (my own included), but only once or twice did it leave me scratching my head. If you're an instructor, you'll find that assigning the Review Questions will often leave your students somewhat bewildered. Some of the questions are so poorly stated that the answers could reasonably vary from "the square root of pi" to "postpartum depression". Okay, maybe that's an exaggeration, but it can be frustrating.

In summary, I'd say it's worth the cost of admission. I haven't looked at the 2008 version of the text; I'd be curious if the errors have been cleaned up. Nonetheless, you should find this text to be a quick and fairly competent introduction to Revit.