Customer Rating:  
Summary: Good step-by-step instructions for the beginner
Comment: We have used this text in our Intro to Revit course (the course assumes you have some previous knowledge of CAD). It teaches Revit by providing step-by-step instructions to build a simple house. At least for me, that seems to work very well in getting one up to speed fairly quickly.
This really is an 'Intro' text; it does not cover any of the more advanced topics, e.g., site layout, curtain systems, structural, or sweeps. Nonetheless, if you're new to Revit, either as an Architectural Desktop convert or just new to 3D, it will work well in getting you up and running in short order.
On the downside, there are more than the usual number of typos, misspellings, incorrect or missing instructions, and grammar errors. Seriously, dude, get a proofreader. All of this is annoying and indicative of the overall decay of language skills (my own included), but only once or twice did it leave me scratching my head. If you're an instructor, you'll find that assigning the Review Questions will often leave your students somewhat bewildered. Some of the questions are so poorly stated that the answers could reasonably vary from "the square root of pi" to "postpartum depression". Okay, maybe that's an exaggeration, but it can be frustrating.
In summary, I'd say it's worth the cost of admission. I haven't looked at the 2008 version of the text; I'd be curious if the errors have been cleaned up. Nonetheless, you should find this text to be a quick and fairly competent introduction to Revit.
|
|
