Autodesk Revit Architecture 2015 Essentials: Autodesk Official Press - Softcover

This detailed introduction to Revit Architecture features straightforward explanations and real-world, hands-on tutorials to teach new users the software's core features and functions.

Presented in the context of real-world workflows, and using real-world projects, each chapter contains a discussion of the "why" and "how" that is reinforced with a step-by-step tutorial so you'll gain practical and applicable experience with the core features of Revit Architecture. The new pedagogical approach emphasizes learning skills to help you prepare for the Revit certification exams.

• Learn at your pace with step-by-step exercises, illustrated with full-color screenshots and downloadable Revit tutorial files
• Work with floors, ceilings, walls, and curtain walls
• Use modeling and massing to explore design ideas
• Use the Family Editor to create and manage families
• Understand effective worksharing, BIM workflows, and file management
• Use rendering and visualization techniques to make your design come alive
• Prepare for Revit certification exams

With Autodesk Revit Architecture Essentials, you are only a step away from better, faster building design.

Learn Autodesk Revit Architecture 2015 Quickly and Easily

This Autodesk Official Press guide covers the fundamentals of Autodesk Revit Architecture 2015 with step-by-step tutorials and hands-on exercises that give you firsthand experience with the tools and a good start on preparing for the Autodesk Revit certification exams. This full-color, updated edition features a stronger emphasis on skills rather than tools, starting and ending files for every single exercise, and more clearly defined exercises that better separate the step-by-step instructions from the “why” discussions.

Learn these Autodesk Revit Architecture 2015 essentials—and more:

• The Revit interface and the workflow behind the software
• Basic building elements: walls, floors, roofs, and ceilings
• Creating several types of stairs, ramps, and railings
• Using and modifying families to create your content
• Generating design sketches with FormIt and Sketchbook Pro
• Adding elements based on space, department, or other variables
• Mastering visualization tools and techniques
• Sharing Revit Architecture files in a project team environment

This striking Essentials book features:

• Chapter-opening learning objectives
• Step-by-step tutorials
• Four-color screenshots and illustrations
• Downloadable exercise files