Product Description

This innovative book shows how building design strengths and methods can be used and applied with Autodesk Revit Architecture 2008. Coverage explores the ways in which Revit Architecture 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 Architecture 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 Architecture'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: #459307 in Books
• Published on: 2007-11-13
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 704 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.

Customer Reviews

Disappointed
I used this book to do some training at my office. I had hoped it would be a good book and it seemed like it had good potential but in the end I have to give it a poor rating.

The biggest complaint was that it was missing files for Chapters 3 and 5 that were needed to complete the exercise. We tried going to the publisher web site to see if the files were there as missing files are often placed there but found the publisher site to be difficult to navigate or find information. It took several attempts to even find the book on the site. We were unable to find any information about the missing files.

Additional complaints would be that after the first introductory chapter, much of the basics and most used features Revit were only loosely addressed. I would have preferred that there would have been more practice given inserting walls, doors, windows, etc. so that the user could get more practice with those basic functions. Objects such as stairs weren't covered until the very last chapter which I would argue that stairs should have been introduced sooner in the book.

I did like the effort to teach Worksets and other work sharing techniques however this was thrown out early in the book when I feel my users didn't yet have a good grasp of the basics.

Excellent. Quick and Easy
Worked out great. Service and shipping was excellent. The only obstacle was that were only able to ship it to the billing address, not the mailing address. Aside from that, it was great.