Short description
Author and Revit Architecture expert Eric Wing walks you through designing, documenting, and presenting a four-story office building. The continuous tutorial begins with the Revit interface and standard conventions for placing walls, doors, and windows, then progresses through the buildings design as would happen in the real world. Youll learn how to work with structural grids, beams, and foundations; add text and dimensions; build floors layer by layer; join exterior and interior walls; and create roofs and ceilings as well as stairs, ramps, and railings. Youll also be introduced to using embedded families and formulas, crucial site considerations, and importing and exporting to various formats.
Long description
A tutorial used continuously through the book quickly teaches readers the basics of Revit Architecture. This book walks readers through designing, documenting, and presenting a four-story office building. The continuous tutorial begins with the Revit interface and standard conventions for placing walls, doors, and windows, then progresses through the building's design as would happen in the real world. Readers will learn how to work with structural grids, beams, and foundations; add text and dimensions; build floors layer by layer; join exterior and interior walls; and create roofs and ceilings as well as stairs, ramps, and railings. This book introduces using embedded families and formulas, crucial site considerations, and importing and exporting to various formats. The companion Web site features before-and-after tutorial files so readers can compare their work. Eric Wing (Syracuse, NY) is the BIM support manager at a New York engineering firm, director of the Autodesk User Group International (AUGI) Training Program, coauthor of Mastering Revit Structure 2009 , and Revit columnist for AUGIWorld Magazine as well as AUGI HotNews and ConnectPress.