Autodesk Revit Architecture 2012: No Experience Required - Softcover

Wing, Eric

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9780470945063: Autodesk Revit Architecture 2012: No Experience Required

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470945060 ISBN 13: 9780470945063

Publisher: Sybex, 2011

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This Autodesk Official Training Guide teaches Revit to new users

The perfect introduction to Revit Architecture, Autodesk?s building information modeling (BIM) software, this unique and highly effective guide uses a continuous, step–by–step tutorial to build your skills. You?ll first get to know the Revit interface and basic conventions, then quickly move right into designing, documenting, and modeling a four–story office building. Place walls, windows, and doors; add floors ceilings, railings, and stairs; create construction documentation?and that?s just for starters! You?ll be amazed by how rapidly you can progress.

Teaches you how to use Autodesk Revit Architecture, Autodesk?s industry–leading building information modeling (BIM) software
Uses a continuous, step–by–step tutorial that progresses through the book, teaching you how to design, document, and present a four–story building
Covers structural grids, beams, and foundations; adding text and dimensions; building floors layer by layer; joining exterior and interior walls; creating roofs and ceilings; and much more
Introduces embedded families and formulas, crucial site considerations, and importing and exporting to various formats
Includes a Web site with before–and–after tutorial files so readers can compare their work

Best of all, this guide is self–paced. Follow the tutorial sequentially?or jump into just the chapters you want by downloading the project files from the companion Web site.

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This hands–on introduction to Revit Architecture will have you designing with Autodesk′s powerful building information modeling software in no time. Through an easy–to–follow, step–by–step tutorial, you′ll learn Revit by planning and developing a four–story office building from design to documentation to presentation. Follow the tutorial sequentially or jump straight to the specific skills you′d like to learn by downloading the drawing files from the companion website. Either way, you′ll get a thorough grounding in Revit basics and quickly master tasks that professionals face all the time.

Learn Revit by designing a four–story office building from start to finish
Start at the ground level by setting a foundation, structural beams, and footings
Understand best practices for models, views, dimensions, families, editing, and more
Plan and create walls, doors, windows, floors, and ceilings
Add rooms, choose colors, and design areas and area separators
Create custom stairs and railings that look great in commercial and high–end residential settings
Finish your site with landscaping, curbing, parking, and walkways
Master Revit′s new features, including transparencies, rotate and array editing tools, the robust materials editor, and the work plane viewer
Light, render, and display in 3D and make presentations that wow customers