Autodesk Revit Architecture 2014 Essentials

Learn Revit Architecture Quickly and Easily

This engaging, step-by-step guide is the perfect introduction to the world's most powerful Building Information Modeling software. The expert authoring team brings the software to life, sharing the most essential tools to enhance your design experience. You'll learn to navigate the interface, create and modify parametric Revit objects, enhance 3D visualizations with presentation-quality graphics, and much more. The detailed tutorials reinforce your understanding of Revit Architecture's core functionality, so you can quickly become productive with the software. This practical guide also helps you prepare for Revit certification exams.

Learn these Revit Architecture essentials-and more:
- Navigating the user interface and all tools
- Working with Revit objects
- Leveraging schematic design and site modeling
- Modeling, massing, and "sketching" your best ideas
- Detailing, annotating, and creating drawing sets
- Tagging rooms and generating color fill plans
- Working with families and the Family Editor
- Rendering and creating compelling visualizations
- Work with compelling presentation documents in multi-user environments
- Create realistic renderings and attractive exploded views

This striking Essentials book features:
- Chapter-opening learning objectives
- Step-by-step tutorials
- Full-color screenshots and illustrations
- Essentials and Beyond-summaries and additional suggested exercises
- Downloadable exercise files