Autodesk Revit Architecture 2012: No Experience Required - Softcover

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.

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

Show off your design with quick, fully rendered perspectives

Add landscaping and topography outside your building

Create beautiful custom wainscoting, railings, and stairs