Product Description

Revit Architecture has revolutionized how architects design, develop, and deliver projects—and now you can join the revolution with this expert guide. Authored by a team of Revit aficionados and experts, this in-depth book uses clear explanations, detailed tutorials, and practical examples to show you how to best implement Revit in the real world. Starting with a focused look at the basics of Revit and Building Information Modeling (BIM), you’ll move quickly into setting up and customizing your Revit tools, preparing your office/project templates and settings, creating your library of components, and much more.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #52217 in Books
• Published on: 2007-11-28
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 720 pages

From the Back Cover
Redesign How You Design with Revit Architecture

Revit Architecture has revolutionized how architects design, develop, and deliver projects—and now you can join the\revolution with this expert guide. Authored by a team of Revit aficionados and experts, this in-depth book uses clear explanations, detailed tutorials, and practical examples to show you how to best implement Revit in the real world.

Starting with a focused look at the basics of Revit and Building Information Modeling (BIM), you'll move quickly into setting up and customizing your Revit tools, preparing your office/project templates and settings, and creating your library of components. From there, the book guides you through a wealth of information, from how to start conceptual modeling, use smart workflows to fine-tune your designs, explore design variations, and create rich construction documents. Packed with practical techniques and tips, this is the perfect resource to help you understand and appreciate Revit, unleash your creativity, and be more productive, no matter what your current skill level.

Coverage includes:

• Customizing system families and project settings to make Revit match your style and needs

• Creating Massing studies and conducting feasibility studies to ensure your designs work

• Mastering modeling principles of Revit

• Understanding smart workflows – the power of groups, links, and design options

• Learning best techniques to achieve rich construction documentation

• Collaborating with project teams and customers

• Tracking changes and coordinating processes for smarter workflows

• Creating appealing graphic presentations and realistic renderings

• Move to a Building

• Information Modeling Process and Increase Your Productivity

• Implement Revit and BIM Principles, and Learn Best Practices

• Improve your Workflows, Worksharing, and Collaboration

• Update Design, Specification, or Modeling Information, Dynamically

• Explore Sustainable Design with Revit Architecture

• Annotate All Views for Accurate, Professional Presentations

About the Author
Tatjana Dzambazova was the product manager for Revit Architecture in Autodesk for the last two years and has recently moved into a new position where she explores emerging technologies, immersive experiences, and the impact of the Web 2.0 on our lifestyles. Before joining Autodesk in 2000, she practiced architecture for 12 years in Vienna and London. At Autodesk, she has focused on evangelizing technology and established herself as an internationally renowned speaker who has fostered relationships with architects and industry leaders around the globe. Powered with seemingly unlimited resources of energy, Tanja manages to make three days out of one, and when she is not working (is that ever?) or coauthoring technology books, she is advocating wildlife conservation and sustainability, reading books like a maniac, and getting inspired at the theater. If you’re lucky enough to be in the Bay Area, you might catch a glimpse of Tanja cruising the streets on her Ducati Monster.

Greg Demchak is a designer, technology advocate, urban explorer, and post-apocalyptic webisode producer. He holds architectural degrees from the University of Oregon and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a product designer for Revit Architecture and has been working with Revit since the year 2000 (Release 2.0, if anyone’s counting). He has been teaching Revit and BIM technology at the Boston Architectural College since 2003. He currently lives in Massachusetts.

Eddy Krygiel is a registered architect, a LEED Accredited Professional, and an Autodesk Authorized Author at BNIM Architects. He has been using Revit since version 5.1 to complete projects ranging from single-family residences to office buildings as large as 1.12 million square feet. Eddy is responsible for implementing BIM at his firm and consults for other architecture and contracting firms looking to implement BIM. For the last three years, he has been teaching Revit to practicing architects and architectural students in the Kansas City area and has lectured around the nation on the use of BIM in the construction industry. Eddy also coauthored a paper on sustainability and BIM that was presented at the 2006 AIA Technology in Architectural Practice conference.

Customer Reviews

Revit Bible
Revit is great fun if you can figure out how to use it. This book takes you a long way. Like AutoCad, half the battle is knowing what it can do, then you figure out how to get there. This book is still written in geek-speak, so it's not always clear instruction. But it's the best Revit bible I've found so far.

Reference Manual
It is a good reference manual, but not step-by-step tutorial. It very seldom has examples of how to do's. It is good, if you already somewhat efficient in Revit.

This Book will add a lot to your Revit education
My recommendation is that Revit beginners buy this book after you have used the Sham Tickoo book. This one is not a simple tutorial book. As has been pointed out there are not a lot of step-by-step instructions, but what I got out of it is the way it takes you to the next level- beyond the basics and shows some more of the intricacies and potential of Revit. For example, the chapter on creating design alternatives within a single project is nowhere to be found in any of the other books I have used. The pics of many different roof types gives brief explanations of their formation- just what I want. I would rather see that than a 20-page explanation of a simple hip-roofed building.
I am a recent(1 week to date) convert to the program and am more impressed everyday with the power and simplicity of Revit.
!!!!!Here is the the great thing about this book- great graphics and lots of it. There are other books which have minimal graphic examples. Don't those authors know who their target market is? We are visually oriented people!!!!!!