Introducing Revit Architecture 2008 at Dominant Systems Book Store

Revit Architecture is transforming how architectural models are designed and documented, and this is the perfect guide to quickly become productive with this industry-leading BIM solution. This practical reference and tutorial offers you a theoretical overview of BIM, explains the principles of Revit, and delves into all of Revit’s essential tools. The expert authors are architects whose years of experience with BIM technology have resulted in these pages of impressive examples, practical explanations, and in-depth and detailed tutorials.

Customer Reviews & Comments
I started reading the first chapter, and I thought, "This book is great. Great introduction to BIM." I found one sentence error and was like, "It doesn't matter; it's just one error," until I read further and further on. Tutorials are disjointed! The examples are often not described smoothly and capable of following along -- unless it is bumps and crashes you like. I find my self writing in the book, adding information needed to the steps and example to actually be complete. At first it was a couple time, then by chapter 4 & 5 it was getting ridiculous. Examples? This is just for Chapter 4. p94: step 1 states "Select the Wall" yet the book has not told us from what file name from the entire CD we use to select "that one there wall." p104: step 3 states "Top" when Revit refers to it specifically as "Height" p104: step 3 states Loc Line to "Centerline" when Revit clearly only has one selection as "Wall Centerline" p116-7: describes to draw a roof that follows the wall outlined, and is not a rectangular roof. Then continuing on page 117, the roof is SUDDENLY RECTANGULAR. p117: step 11 tells us to "Finish Sketch," YET we were already told to hit "Finish Sketch" in Step 8. It's like telling someone to finish a cup of water twice with only one glass of water. p117: step 12 states to change to metal roof, yet the roof is already metal (Generic - 12") p119: step 3 state, "When you're got a closed loop of lines. ... " Folks this is not even a sentence, much less correct English. p125: missing image for fig.4.83 p131: step 9 does not show lock icons as stated p139: does not illustrate or describe where to "finish the other bathroom. p141: reference to file name on CD is incorrect p143: step 5 states "finish the sketch to see the resulting 3D geometry" yet the referring figure 4.122 is a 2D plan view. To properly see the result of editing 3D geometry in a 2D sketch view, you need to see more than just a 2D view result. In addition, I found a file corrupted on the CD, which is accompanied with the book. The book sometimes references the CD file correctly and other time you must find what file the book is talking about. I'm sick of incompleteness. However, if your determined you can make your way through this book the book will help you -- but only if your really computer literate already. This book I consider as a rough draft.

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