Announcing.....Stuff

So, it seems whenever we (as a blog) do announcements we seem to always show the three of us, James, Phil, Eddy, in some fashion that's not who we really are but somehow embodies the concepts of who we might be. So, as the heading states, I have some stuff to announce and to do that, I was looking for some imagery of the conceptual version of 'us'.

I found this one - the Three Musketeers. Not so much for the obvious references but the un-obvious references. Two specifically. First off - well there's really 4 of them in this photo (Willem, that can be you on the right). And mainly because one of them is Charlie Sheen who at times can act like one of the key authors of this blog.

Hint: it's not me.

Then I came across this: Three's Company. You can figure out yourself who I was picturing as a a character for each of us. (Hint: James used to be blonde and Phil still wears a gold chain).

With that done, Autodesk yesterday announced the release of Revit 2012. You all knew it was coming, but now it's officially out there. It's got some great new features that I'm personally very excited about - but haven't been able to discuss until today. The worksharing features alone will be well worth the pain of the upgrade. With that messy 2010 a thing of the past, they've been pulling out the stops to make some really great changes.

With the new release of the software comes the announcement of the new books. We've revised Mastering Revit Architecture for the 2012 release in all of it's 1157 pages. We've got some great new content in there as well addressing conceptual modeling and analysis, some of the new tools like assemblies and parts. We've also received some excellent contributions this year. Don Rudder has updated the Revit API work from last year, we have some new stuff on Revit in the classroom, Revit for Film and Stage now features work from the new Tron movie and Kelly Cone contributed some work on some very high level parametrics. All great stuff. You can find it here (with the new cover art) on Amazon and here on Barnes and Noble. One of the best things we got for this book was a great foreword by none other than Anthony Hauck - the Product Design Manger for Revit itself.

We're also introducing a new book called Revit Architecture Essentials 2012. Full color, 400 pages, 3-4 days of all the core ingredients you need to know to learn Revit and be a functioning team player. This is not for Revit Masters, but for Revit Beginners. Check out our 'final' cover (after much cajoling).

Anyway, we've worked very hard on all 1544 pages and we're oh so happy that the books will be hitting bookshelves in a matter of a few short weeks. Thanks to all for your contributions and support. And thanks to Mr. Roper for unclogging the drain.