Revit Architecture 2010: No Experience Required,   ISBN:9780470447222

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Book is layed out pretty well and is easy to read. The sample project is good because it takes you through a lot of the everyday work you'll do with Revit at the office. The main problem I had with this book is that there are a lot of errors. In the project there is an East wing and a West wing. The book confuses itself by mixing these labels back and forth so you don't know where you are. Also, some of the step by step commands they take you through are well planned out, but some are calling out the wrong term for the command or button or miss steps that you have to figure out for yourself. I really think that someone should take at least a paid beginners course before jumping into this book like I did. It will real help. Another problem I had with the sample project was the floor levels. They have you copy the first floor and create 4 more. That's fine until you label doors. Every floor labels the doors with 100, 100AAA, 100BBB. It drives me nuts. I have to go into every door and change the mark manually. The book should have covered room names and door numbers right at that point. Instead it goes into schedules where every door is 100+. I haven't used any other book, so I can't compare. I like this book in general and would still use it as a reference at work. I wish they would go back and edit through this book and correct all the mistakes. I got to the point where I wanted to highlight and correct everything and send them the book when I was done. Fire the editor / proofchecker.

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Although I'm just about 60 pages into this ginormous book, I very pleased with the way the author breaks down the various explanations and exercises used to get accustomed to the Revit interface. The previous posters are right about the author's confusion about north/south/east/west directions but there are plenty of screen shots that compensate for that. Definitely good for people who just wanna get right into modeling!!!

I had previously bought 'Mastering Revit Architecture 2010' and found it to be inappropriate for newbies, like myself, who want more of hands on training with the software.

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As a Revit beginner, I find this book extremely helpful. The directions are very explicit, with frequent images and excellent tips for unexperienced users. It might not cover all of the advanced capabilities possible within the Revit software, but it definitely gets you going on all the issues you need to start using Revit in the workplace.

The only issue with this otherwise great tome is a bewildering confusion of cardinal directions - at first, the project is referred to with south facing up (why?), but then it starts to become muddled, with east and west switching and flip-flopping, sometimes section by section. I don't know why there is this unfortunate error, but thanks to the many images, you can follow what the author wants you to do anyway.

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Eric Wing's superb book had 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.

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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.