Product 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.



Summary: Up and running immediately
Rating: 5
Eric Wing's superb book has me up and running on Revit immediately. His approach makes it easy to ingest information, building on skills as you go. You jump in and start to create a model right away. Each exercise builds upon the same model. The saving grace of this book is the easy access to support files. If you don't get the exercise just right you can start with one of Eric's files at the next exercise and move on.

I'm an experienced AutoCad user and have been resisting Revit for quite awhile. (The thought of moving architectural design to a data based software process destroys all hope for the future of design.) Eric takes the sting out of the learning curve and sets you up for confidence in facing the inevitable - Revitland.


Summary: Mistakes, Mistakes....
Rating: 3
Definitely not for someone who has never used a drafting program. There are quite a few mistakes. Often reverses East and West, which caused some confusion. Also confuses right and left when instructions are given. Will refer to the right in the text, but then the picture will show the left.

However, over all, it is relatively inexpensive compared to other books of it type. Just have to decipher what a few things actually mean.


Summary: 's okay
Rating: 3
What with the interface changes and what I have forgotten since I took the Revit class at the local CC, I felt the need to refresh my Revit skills. This book was the only one available that addressed the 2010 release.

As a refresher, it is fine. It might not be adequate for a complete novice, though: there are a few cases where the instructions refer to the old interface and a few where the instructions are inaccurate. The strangest thing is that "east" and "west" are often reversed. Unfortunately, they are not always reversed, so one must consider each directional reference on its own.


Summary: Excellent
Rating: 5
This book is written from a practical work-flow viewpoint which helps the reader to start from a blank sheet as it were, and continue through to detailed plotted drawings to meet the standard one expects. This is a practical guide to using the software with no exaggerated frilly descriptions or endless variations of the same tool/command one is accustomed to in a manual. The book's project cleverly incorporates most, if not all, of the regular details in a building or project we all deal with in our daily work and not necessarily an exaggerated project we might aspire to. This book is more about the building than the software, as BIM should be. The author's sense of humor throughout is noteworthy, and appreciated.


Summary: Excellent presentation of RAC 2010 for beginners as well as intemediate users
Rating: 5
This is an excellent book.
Mr. Wing should be commended for presenting the information organized in a systematic way in which by the end of each Chapter you will have a clear understanding of what was covered and what you should have learned.
It is obvious, by the approach of this book that the Author is not just a teacher of Revit but has actually used it in an office setting for production purposes. This is the only book that I have on this subject where I can tell that author has us; the working everyday Architects in mind when presenting the information.
The book is set up so that you (right from chapter one) begin the process of creating a building. You are directed and instructed on how each command works as it comes up during the process of creating the model.
Unlike other books on the subject the author limits the amount of required reading but adds plenty of images to make points. I learn visually as I believe many other Architects do. You are first explained what it is that you are about to do and then you proceed to follow step by step on how to do it, at the end of the exercise you get a final review with additional comments for additional comprehension.
Although the book is not as comprehensive as the Aubin books, the two books would work well together. Aubin's book although excellent in my opinion are a little to wordy, sometimes frustrating me because it is very easy to miss a step by getting caught up on information which would be better left for after you complete the task.
Again this is in my opinion where this book trumps all the others. The author guides you and once you actually learned or figured out what it was that you were doing are you given more information BECAUSE NOW YOU ARE CAPABLE OF DIGESTING IT.!!!!!
If I was to rank the books on Revit Architecture I would rank this book and Aubin's as the top two 1a and 1b. L. C. Fox I would rank as number 2, the Stine books are excellent for a beginners and I would rank those # 3.
Most of the rest are not worth the money I spent on them.
I encourage Mr. Wing to give us another book on the more sophisticated portions of Revit such as content(family)creation, the use of the new 2010 way of making mass objects, specialty walls, custom doors, custom windows, etc. If presented in the same organized ways as RAC 2010 No Experience Required it will be a winner.



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