Total number of pages: 836

The intent of this book is to provide the interior design student a well-rounded knowledge of Autodesk Revit tools and techniques. These skills can then be applied to enhance professional development in both academia and industry. The book also includes access to nearly 100 video tutorials designed to further help you master Autodesk Revit.

The overall premise of the book is to help you learn Revit while developing the interior of a two story law office. At the start of the book you are provided an architectural model with established columns, beams, exterior walls, minimal interior walls and roofs in which to work. This allows more emphasis to be placed on interior design rather than primary architectural elements. The chapters' chronology generally follows the typical design process. You will find this book helps you more accurately and efficiently develop your design ideas and skills.

The book introduces you to Revit, Building Information Modeling (BIM) and the basics of opening, saving and creating a new project, followed by a quick introduction to modeling basic elements, including walls, doors, windows and more. The remainder of the book is spent developing the interior space of the law office with an established space program.

You will learn how to view and navigate within the provided 3D architectural model, manage and create materials and develop spaces with walls, doors and windows. Once all the spaces are added to the model, several areas are explored and used as the basis to cover Revit commands and workflows.

At the end of this tutorial, you will be able to model floor finishes, ceilings with soffits, casework, custom reception desk, restrooms, furniture and light fixtures. Additional features such as tags, schedules and photorealistic rendering will be covered.

About the Videos

Access to nearly 100 videos, almost five hours of content, is included with your purchase of this book. These break down each topic into several short videos so that you can navigate to a specific tool or feature in Autodesk Revit. This makes the videos both a powerful learning tool and convenient video reference. The videos make it easy to see the menu selections and will make learning Revit straightforward and simple.

Prerequisites

Access to the 2018 version of the software. The practices and files included with this guide might not be compatible with prior versions.