Autodesk Revit Architecture 2012: No Experience Required 1st Edition

While I had experience with other types of CAD programs, REVIT was a bit confusing. I ordered this book to help me walk through the basics. This is well worth the investment. I was able to start on page 1 and quickly became versed in the basic operations within minutes. By the end of Chapter 3, I was able to work confidently with the features explained and was exploring features not covered. While not 100% perfect, this book goes a long way. It is an easy 1-2-3 step process full of concise details and photos. A must for REVIT.

This will be the only book that you will ever need if you are studying to be an Interior Designer and to be an Architect. If you are required to take Revit as part of your core studies, then Autodesk Revit Architecture 2013 No Experience Required is a good book to have. I am a student at College of Southern Nevada Majoring in Interior Design and Architect. I had this book a few weeks now and I have learnt so much in two weeks time.The book takes you step by step on how to use Revit. This book will help you understand Revit a little better. It does not make learning difficult. The steps are clearly explain to the point that a 10 year old child can understand it. i recommand that you get this book before you take your Revit class. I'm sure that you will pass the course with an A. i know that i will.

This book was purchased by over 50% of the REvit class at our community college after the textbook and teacher left the students perplexed. This book literally walks the reader through every step in the beginning and then weans you as it goes. Nothing is left out it is impossible to get lost. All say it is the best book out there. It is my third book on the topic as I attempt to teach myself this software and so far, I agree with the students.... this is a great book... easy to follow and understand. Well presented material.

I started with AutoCad LT 2.0 many years ago in the mid 90's. Finally after many years and versions I started using Revit. Autodesk has several training manuals. Mastering Autodesk Revit has 500+ pages of heavy reading before one starts to draw! Aubin uses the same project in his revised books. NER is the best for explaining , fully, the basic procedures in Revit. It assumes no previous knowledge. NER starts with and continues with drafting, leaving collaboration, workspace sharing, topography, importing, ... to the last chapters. As a single user, this is very welcome.

I had 10 years experience with CAD, but 0 experience with REVIT. I'm only halfway through the book, but so far this has turned out to be an excellent resource and training guide. The book teaches you proper modeling techniques and the use of many tools by taking you through the creation of a 5 story office building/complex. You should be able to take the knowledge learned from the books example project and apply it to typical real-world projects.The only thing lacking from this book are more trouble-shooting tips for REVIT errors when a command or tool doesn't quite work as intended. For example, a variety of errors can pop up when trying to trim or attach a wall to the underside of a complex roof joint. So that can be a little frustrating. Overall a good book for a beginner though.

The name of the book tells it like it is, No ExperienceRequired, which I had No Experience with Revit, this book covers everything from the basics to the more advanced topics of Revit, it really helped me to get started using Revit and Im sure it will help me down the road with the more advanced features of Revit. I have been an AutoCad user for many years and Revit is like AutoCad on Steroids, Revit is one powerfull program.

I have had this book for several months.This book presents instruction in detailed, precise fashion. The lessons are clear and it seems impossible for a person not to understand it. I think it is great.Other instruction books, I have discovered, were clumsy and unclear in their presentation techniques. As with many technical manuals, the other manufacturers left out steps important to a beginner. That is not so with this Revit publication.

Bought this thinking it would help me get started on learning Revit... It did, for an hour. Then I got tired of reading this and gave up. Found online videos for free that made it a lot easier to follow. And nothing beats real world experience. I learned and picked up Revit much quicker while working in a firm then I ever could have in school or from a book. My advise, just dive in and watch getting started videos on YouTube.

I love it. I started practicing the project as per this book guidance. The author is well experienced person in such way that he understood the mentality of the people like me. I feel he is teaching in front of me. Very very nice and well explained chapters.

Without ever using Revit before, this book lead me through all of the tools with clear and simple descriptions. It very effectively uses a tutorial to draw a six-storey building throughout the book in order to guide you through all that Revit has to offer. This made the book appear to be a lot more relevant in comparison to others, since it is quite evident that the writer has practical real-world experience and knowledge of the program.Overall I am extremely satisfied with this purchase although I would say that there are a few points in the book where the step by step instructions seem to 'jump' a little. As you might be completing one step, which has been given a significant amount of detail, the next step might be written in a manner which assumes you know what you are doing. (Even though the particular item was not covered in the book yet) This did not happen too often throughout the book, however there were a handful of times where I had to re-read a specific section in order to try and understand what the author was asking me to do.I found this to be a small shortfall, and would still recommend this book to anyone with no experience using Revit.

I am new to revit, but the simple to follow explanation in the book allow me to have a hang of the software in no time. Thank you

The book helps you understand principles talking a more jovial manner, which helps the information process. With clear illustrations, as well as advice I'd recommend it to all beginners, no matter what discipline, myself being from an MEP background, but purposely chose this, as it appeared less dry than other resources, giving knowledge of the program that can be transferred, and grown further.The only reason why I gave it 4 stars was there was some confusing parts, although the author makes some effort to cater for metric, I feel just not quite enough. I think the first exercise before putting in the exterior walls would be to download and explain loading families into the project. Myself at times using other families, nominally a different exterior wall, as the the UK version doesn't have the same one. Not realising at the same I could of changed it at the beginning would of avoided some confusion later on down the line.

Very good book, highly recommended for both beginners and advanced on the field.