Revit Architecture 2010: No Experience Required

Revit Architecture 2010: No Experience Required walks readers through all aspects involved in documenting, designing and presenting a four-story office building. This continuous tutorial begins with an introduction to the Revit interface and steadily progresses into building design as it would happen in the real world. Readers will learn about a wide range of real world concepts, such as how to work with beams, foundations and structural grids, as well as how to add dimensions and text, build floors layer by lay, join interior and exterior walls and create roofs and ceilings. The text also covers ramps, railings and stairs, and further teaches readers about embedded families and formulas, importing and exporting various formats and crucial site considerations. 984 pages.

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: The Revit World.
• Chapter 2: Creating a model.
• Chapter 3: Creating Views.
• Chapter 4: Working with the Revit tools.
• Chapter 5: Structural items.
• Chapter 6: Dimensions.
• Chapter 7: Floors.
• Chapter 8: Roofs.
• Chapter 9: Ceilings and interiors.
• Chapter 10: Stairs, Ramps and Railings.
• Chapter 11: Schedules and Tags.
• Chapter 12: Detailing.
• Chapter 13: Creating specific views and match lines.
• Chapter 14: Creating sheets and printing.
• Chapter 15: Room and Area.
• Chapter 16: Advanced wall topics.
• Chapter 17: Families.
• Chapter 18: Site.
• Chapter 19: Materials and rendering.
• Chapter 20: Import / Export.
• Chapter 21: Phasing.
• Chapter 22: Work sharing.