Autodesk Revit Architecture 2015: No Experience Required: Autodesk Official Press 1st Edition

Great book - I used last years version of this book to learn revit on my own. You cant pick and choose though, you have to do the lessons in order. I am now completing projects for my office on revit, and use this version as a reference. I've learned many CADD programs, and learning Revit was pretty simple using this. Also there are many humorous asides which this book that much more enjoyable.

This book is well written and serves its purpose.

There were some typos and mistakes, but overall, this is a pretty good book to learn Revit 2015

Originally, I planned on giving this textbook at least a 4 star review, since at first, the concepts and step-by-step instructions were easy to understand, follow, and grasp. However, as I progress through each chapter, I'm noticing some very troubling patterns emerging that I want you to know about.First, the author does to an excellent job of creating a narrative that is fairly easy to follow. You won't get lost using this book. He takes you along the road to completion of the book's project and helps keep the text free from sterile language. That said, certain limitations about a book like this become quite obvious.To begin, this isn't a book you'd buy to learn Revit. Sound odd that I'd say that, but it's true. You aren't LEARNING Revit here. You're learning how to use Revit to complete a rote project. There's a important distinction between learning something and learning how to get a result. This book's purpose seems to be to get a result, not dive into the software and really know it.For example, if you follow along per the author's instructions, you will achieve success. Great! But now test yourself. Put the book away and try to do it again on your own. Trouble? Likely, since the author does not devote much of the text to explain why you're performing certain steps. Just that you have to and you'll get a result. I wanted more "why do this", not just "do this", as learning software sometimes requires explanation of processes and correcting your own mistakes.Speaking of mistakes: When you make a mistake, and it will happen, it's frustrating to have to rewind through the text to find where you "might" have made the mistake and correct it in your model. Sometimes you don't know if you've done something wrong until much later, and since the book is written in linear fashion (step 1,2,3...) for the entire project, it's unclear how to fix things. There isn't much depth of discussion about correcting errors, just "do this and it'll be done"!Further, the book's publishing suffers from a bad case of "small graphicitis" where each figure shown in the book is printed at a low dpi and in b/w only, that it's often very confusing to understand the author's graphic examples. There were many times I had to experiment to find out what line or point he was referring to in figure x.x. In other words, this book should have been printed on heavier weight paper (not newsprint) and in full color to help clarify the author's examples.I'm using this book for a college introduction course in Revit. The instructor and my fellow students have found numerous errors, omissions, or foolish procedures already (approx thru chapter 8) that the author should have corrected or re-written. I'm not saying the author is recklessly inaccurate, but it would serve students well to avoid rote methodology here.Bottom line: While I'm sure it's tough to write a solid textbook, more emphasis should be placed on concepts and compulsory practice, rather than a "just do it my way and you'll have this cool building done" approach. I don't feel like I'm learning Revit. I feel like I'm making something in Revit, but I wouldn't pass any Revit cert testing.Advice: seek additional sources of knowledge in other texts or online if you really want to know Revit Architecture.

it is a lot of info.

Pretty good tutorial, a couple weird issues here and there, some of the pictures are a little small, but overall a good introduction to Revit.

seems to be as good as new

easy read & the Revit information is good

This book really got me hooked on Revit but I'm a primarily a Process Mechanical Tech/Designer yet it's still useful & the exercises are quite handy & easy to follow. I still have a lot to learn as there's so much more to learn/know about Revit.I really enjoy the contents & the coverage of this book. I hope I could find another similar Revit book by this author which covers/concentrates more on Industrial/Process piping aspect of it.

Autodesk REVIT arquitecture 2015.Es un magnifico libro muy bien explicado. Lo recomiendo. No he tenido ningun problema en seguir los ejercicios.

I bought this book and it first looked at it on 24th April. It has nearly 1000 pages and at first thought it was going to be daunting. I've never bought a book to self teach before neither so again very nervous about purchase. I've started from the beginning and it's pretty easy to work with. It's the 30th April and I am on page 400 and this is doing the course part time. There are one of two discrepancies with measurements as it was written in imperial with metric dimensions added (with a few obvious conversion errors). It also has a few screenshots which weren't clear to see what the author was asking me to do but after a short while, I was able to work this out. With all this said, it hasn't put me off giving this 5 stars! If it gets results and I am progressing as well as understanding what I am doing then the author has done his job in my eyes.I would recommend to everyone as well. The book say no experience needed and whilst I have AutoCAD experience, this did not make any difference as Revit it totally different if the way you draw and work.So go on, buy a copy now!!

This is a really good comprehensive book for Revit. Well organised, and covers most of the subjects pretty well. Much better than most of the other books on the subject.

If not perfect it works above expectations.