As we’ve officially wrapped up the 100% draft last week (right, Phil?) I wanted to share where we finally ended up. We started this process not only as a total rewrite of the previous series, but as an effort to add much more advanced material. See our final Table of Contents below. I hope you’ll agree - we strove hard to get to that goal and I think we really got there.
We are weighing in at a total of 1080 pages making this the biggest Mastering Revit book to date. It’s quite a massive tome. This was truly a process - along the way, we decided to add some content that was too advanced (even for us). We were able to coerce some great folks to lend a hand on the section, Construction and Beyond. While this consists of about 15% of our overall content, it is chocked full of goodness. All of these folks helped with great contributions. A solid THANK YOU to all.
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1 Introduction: The Basics of BIM
FUNDAMENTALS
2 Principles of Revit - Tools and UI
3 The Basics of the Revit Toolchest
UNDERSTANDING THE REVIT WORKFLOW
4 Templates and Standards
5 Managing a Revit Project
6 Understanding Worksharing
7 Working with Consultants
8 Interoperability - Working Multi-Platform
MODELING AND MASSING FOR DESIGN
9 Intuitive and Formulaic Massing
10 Conceptual Design and Sustainability
11 Designing with Phasing, Design Options and Groups
12 Analytic and Photo-realistic Visualization
EXTENDED MODELING TECHNIQUES
13 Walls and Curtain Walls with David Light, HOK
14 Floors, Ceilings and Roofs
15 Family Editor
16 Advanced Stairs and Railings
DOCUMENTATION
17 Detailing your Design
18 Documenting your Design
19 Annotating the Design
20 Presenting your Design
CONSTRUCTION AND BEYOND
21 Revit in Construction (with input from the field by Josh Lowe and Mike Whaley, Findorff & Sons and Laura Handler, Tocci Building Corp.).
22 Revit in the Classroom (with input from two architectural students Adam Thomas and Jereme Smith, founders of ArchDesignLabs).
23 Revit in Virtualization (with input from Peter Streibig, Bohlin Cywinski Jackson).
24 Under the Hood - API, Journal Files, Hacking, UI, Scripts (with input from Don Rudder, HOK).
25 Direct to Fabrication (with help from Jeffrey McGrew, BecauseWeCan).
26 Outside the Box - Film and Stage (with help from Bryan Sutton).
27 Revit in the Cloud (with help from Chris France, Little)
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Hey, sorry for all the links, but well worth the time. So much cool and exciting stuff! Oh, and BTW - Happy Earth Week!
3 comments:
Hey guys, any chance this will be the first Revit tome available on the iPad? Common! You KNOW you want to.
Save trees, publish earlier, issue revisions easier. Maybe start as an iBook, but how cool would it be if the book was a dedicated app, with video and links and addenda and...
Just a thought. ;)
And looking forward to the book even as treeware.
Gordon
Did Phil put you up to the iPad question?
Nope, got that wild hair all by my self. ;)
But I figured Phil would be the iAgitator on the author team.
Gordon
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