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Revit Architecture 2009: A Comprehensive Guide | 
 enlarge | Author: H. Edward Goldberg
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 172045
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1 Com
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 444
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.1
Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 8.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 0135134757
Dewey Decimal Number: 670
EAN: 9780135134757
ASIN: 0135134757
Publication Date: May 30, 2008
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Product Description
Revit Architecture 2009: A Comprehensive Guide focuses on a work-flow methodology, covering the tools most necessary to build skills incrementally and become productive quickly. The book is comprised of a hands-on series of tutorials, arranged hierarchically, to acquaint students with the features and methodology of the Revit 2009 program. In the final chapter, a comprehensive building tutorial, based on a real-world project, pulls together all of the cumulative knowledge gained by completing the previous exercises. The book is specifically designed to be used either as a self-instructional course or in a classroom context. This book, which is written by a practicing architect and educator, appeals to architects, architectural draftsmen, and students because it approaches the use of REVIT for real-world application from the perspective of a professional in the field. Because the author is a teacher and trainer, the text is both student- and teacher-friendly.
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This is NOT Revit 2009 a comprehensive guide August 20, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this book in order to familiarize myself with Revit as part of bim initiative in my company. I expected a book that covers majority of features and methodology of the Revit 2009 program as title and editorial's review suggested. Unfortunately, it completely misses the point.
Firs of all, book is written for absolute beginners. For example, author explains what are check boxes, radio buttons, right mouse button and so on, everything with lots of illustrations (by the way, hundreds of illustrations don't convey any additional information, just fill the space so that book has more that 440 pages). Absolute beginners guide (tutorial) is more accurate title. Comprehensive guide is for experienced users who need to learn in-depth capabilities of software.
Second, whole book is full of endless step-by-step tutorials and doesn't explain why you doing something and what's philosophy behind described steps. Also, Revit 2009 comes with very good step-by-step tutorials, so from that point of view, one can't learn anything new from this book.
Third, some of information are simply not true. For example (cover page):" Revit was the firs parametric modeler designed for the AEC industry" Revit was founded in 1997. Graphisoft's ArchiCAD started with bim in 1987. Or this one: " BIM,...,is a new paradigm in architectural design management that has been popularized by Autodesk since 2002". Please see this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_Information_Modeling for bim origin.
Conclusion: I don's see who can benefit from this book. Author doesn't communicate any new information since step-by-step tutorials are already part of Revit help. Also, author is not competent to write comprehensive guide (a lots of non-precise definitions - for example (p77): "a layer is a rectangle assigned to one row" shows that author doesn't understand bim concept and is not capable to communicate effectively).
Two stars only for attempt to write a comprehensive guide.
Not-recommended at all.
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