In December we started working on the new tome, Mastering Revit 2011. work has been progressing nicely over the last month and a half. We’ve been pounding out content getting organize and arguing over who’s name gets to be first on the book cover. As with any project, this is a work in progress, but we wanted to share the current iteration of our Table of Contents. This is version 10, and I’m sure there will be a version 11 and a version 52, but this should give you an idea of the kind of content we’re looking to create. See anything we missed in there?
Stay tuned for previews of some of the upcoming work as we continue flushing out the chapters.
FUNDAMENTALS
Principles of Revit - Tools and UI
The Basics of the Revit Toolchest
UNDERSTANDING THE REVIT WORKFLOW
Templates and Standards
Managing a Revit Project
Understanding Worksharing
Working with Consultants
Interoperability - Working Multi-Platform
MODELING AND MASSING FOR DESIGN
Advanced Modeling and Massing (Inter / Intra Revit)
Conceptual Design and Sustainability
Designing with Design Options and Groups
Visualization (Still, Moving, Real Time / Game Engines)
ADVANCED MODELING TECHNIQUES
Complex Walls + Curtain Walls
Complex Roofs and Floors
Stairs and Railings
Family Editor
DOCUMENTATION
Documenting your Design
Detailing your Design
Annotating the Design
Presentation Materials (color fills, area plans, etc)
CONSTRUCTION
Contractor and Revit
CA and Revisions
BEYOND CONSTRUCTION
Revit in the Classroom (High, College, Graduate, Training)
Virtualization
Under the Hood (API, Journal Files, Hacking, UI, Scripts)
Direct to Fabrication
Out of the Box - Fabrication / Film and Stage / Etc
5 comments:
Eddy,
Good move putting Worksharing near the beginning. We have been skipping to that chapter in my class in lesson 5 or 6. This would allow for my syallabus to be in relative chapter order instead of 1,2 ,6,8,24,4,8 etc.
That looks pretty good; reading between the lines the idea seems to be to teach concepts rather than the more common collections of steps. Here's hoping for more depth!
Don't lose sight of phases; they're indispensable. They're also one potential solution to the documenting conundrum that eventually confront people: how to document alternates on public bid sets.
I'm also interested in pervasive coverage of modeling with enough rigor that quantity takes off are (relatively) painless and can be used with greater frequency.
One last thought: it isn't a chapter by itself, but none-the-less a crucial element of working within Revit: how things are named. Some discussion of potential approaches and their trade-offs would be appreciated by would-be Revit Masters.
Hi Joel -
Why Phases rather than Design Options for proposing alternates?
Curious!
-Phil
I like it, the only thing thats missing is some type of site plan work around chp(unless your going to cover this in the advanced modeling part or leaving it out because the site tool isn't quite there yet) also my favourite tip using worksets as view filters.
Hi Phil-
Design Options are lot better for alternates, except if you want some kind of graphical distinction between the alternates shown on a given sheet. You can do this with phase filters, though, as long the alternates aren't especially complex (and you're graphical goals are straight forward).
Both tools could use some help; I'd like them both, along with worksets, to offer similar, more versatile, graphical override functionality. Fewer corner cases, more power.
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