Revit Essentials

A show of hands - how many of you remember when Phil Read came to your offices to teach you about this thing called Revit? (Pronounced 'Ree-vit' by your project managers and 'He costs how much?' by the office partners). Remember that? In my office, back in early 2000-something, this guy showed up in a suit and tie to wax poetic about how I was going to be able to design and document our first building over 1,000,000 sq ft using this tool Autodesk had just acquired. It was a bit surreal.

Anyone ever watch that famous interview with Salvador Dali? It was kinda like that. There was this crazy guy in a suit spouting off terms like 'Relinquish All Mine' and 'Reload Latest' and 'you can totally build a ramp made out of gyp. board and attach it to the bottom of a stair and call it a ceiling.' I was completely lost but totally intrigued.



Want your own copy of that memory? Phil is now leading the made-for-home version of this experience. We're doing a new series of book called Revit Essentials which is going to mimic that 3 day, intensive class you once went through. We're about 50% complete and it's been an interesting process trying to distill 3 days worth of training into a compact book. It won't be out until next year but we're hoping to take it in a new and interesting learning direction.

ps. this new direction does not include teenaged vampires who claim to be over 100 years old and still date teenagers or werewolves with rippling abs. It might contain inappropriate language quoted from Southpark that the editors didn't manage to catch before printing though.