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are the property of their respective owners Wiley Publishing, Inc., is not associated with any product or vendor mentioned in this book 10 Dear Reader, Thank you for choosing Mastering Revit Architecture 2010 This book is part of a family of premiumquality Sybex books, all of which are written by outstanding authors who combine practical experience with a gift for teaching Sybex was founded in 1976 More than 30 years later, we’re still committed to producing consistently exceptional books With each of our titles, we’re working hard to set a new standard for the industry From the paper we print on, to the authors we work with, our goal is to bring you the best books available I hope you see all that reflected in these pages I’d be very interested to hear your comments and get your feedback on how we’re doing Feel free to let me know what you think about this or any other Sybex book by sending me an email at nedde@wiley.com If you think you’ve found a technical error in this book, please visit http://sybex.custhelp.com Customer feedback is critical to our efforts at Sybex Best regards, Neil Edde Vice President and Publisher Sybex, an Imprint of Wiley For Serene —Greg For all the fantastic friends that Revit brought to me, from Norway to South Africa, I love and miss you all — Tanja For my family who puts up with me writing these books evenings and weekends —Eddy Acknowledgments Hats off to the innovators who conceptualized, designed, and made Revit happen You have changed the world! Huge thanks to all the faithful followers! Without you, Revit wouldn’t be what it is today Personal thanks to the Grand Master Philippe Drouant, without whose expertise, generous help, and amazing illustrations we wouldn’t have been able to make this book Many thanks to Guillermo Melantoni and Erik Egbertson, whose participation was crucial in getting a prior version of this book out of the door; to the inspirational leaders Mario Guttman and Ken Sanders for their contributions; to Matt Jezyk, Lira Nikolovska, Nathan Lockwood, Jaap van der Weide, Heather Lech, Zach Kron, Cindy Wang, Tamas Badics, and so many other colleagues for their heroic effort to create the fantastic new Conceptual Design tools in Revit 2010 that are paving a path to a whole new working paradigm Sincere thanks to all the hardworking developers, product designers, and quality assurance testers from the development team of Revit, for their dedication, passion, and love of Revit And finally, thanks are due to our friend and technical editor Phil Read and our excellent support team at Sybex, who helped us develop and focus the content Thanks to Laurene Sorensen for helping us form complete sentences; to Liz Welch and Linda Recktenwald for dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s; to Liz Britten for keeping us honest; and a special thanks to Willem Knibbe, whose constant support and willingness to put up with our “issues” made us the high-maintenance authors we are today We would like to express our sincerest gratitude to our friends, the architects who generously shared their work, allowing us to inspire you with it: Håvard Vasshaug; DARK Arkitekter AS; To Pluss To arkitekter; Link Landskap; Dave Fano and Case Design; Mark Dietrich, James O’Toole, Jim Summers, Robin Shaffer, Robert Manna, and Burt Hill; Mike Hnastchenko; Rolly Stevens and Ellerbe Becket; Craig Barbieri, Richard Taylor, Kucarovik, Nemeth, Vlkovic, Polakova, and Senteska; Gensler; Montealegre Beach Arquitectos Ltda; Miles Walker, Lee Miller, Luis Fernandez de Ortega Barcenas, Julio Gonzalez, and HOK; Jim Balding and WATG; E N Raycroft; T Castro; A Blood; D Belcher; Krisztian Hegedues; and Josef Kendersky About the Authors Greg Demchak is a designer, technology advocate, urban explorer, and post-apocalyptic film producer He holds architectural degrees from the University of Oregon and Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a LEED Accredited Professional He is a product designer for Autodesk, and has been working with Revit since 2000 His latest work on Revit was the design of a new conceptual modeling environment He has been teaching at the Boston Architectural College since 2003, and is currently the principal investigator for the 2009 Solar Decathlon competition He resides in Massachusetts Tatjana Dzambazova became known to the AEC industry through her passionate evangelizing of Revit in its pioneer days (2001–2005) and for being the product manager for Revit Architecture (2005– 2007) After this, she moved on to research of Web 2.0, social networking, and virtual worlds and later moved on to conceptual design, design computation, and digital fabrication in AEC, advocating the broader Autodesk technology portfolio relating to those trends Before joining Autodesk in 2000, she practiced architecture for 12 years in Vienna and London At Autodesk, she focused on advocating for technology and established herself as an internationally renowned, inspiring speaker who fosters relationships with architects and industry leaders all around the globe Powered by seemingly unlimited sources of energy and passion, Tanja manages to make three days out of one, and is always on the hunt for what’s new and exciting in the world of architecture and technology Tanja is mad about wild animals, is a compulsive reader, and loves riding her Ducati Monster and playing Scrabble and Texas Hold ’Em She currently lives in San Francisco Eddy Krygiel is a senior project architect, a LEED Accredited Professional, and an Autodesk Authorized Author at HNTB Architects headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri He has been using Revit since version 5.1 to complete projects ranging from single-family residences and historic remodels to 1.12-millionsquare-foot office buildings Eddy is responsible for implementing BIM at his firm and also consults for other architecture and contracting firms around the country looking to implement BIM For the last four years, he has been teaching Revit to practicing architects and architectural students in the Kansas City area and has lectured around the nation on the use of BIM in the construction industry Eddy also coauthored Green BIM, a book on sustainability and BIM, with Bradley Nies (Sybex, 2008) Contents at a Glance Foreword xxiii Introduction xxix Chapter 1 • Understanding BIM: From the Basics to Advanced Realities Chapter 2 • Revit Fundamentals 15 Chapter 3 • Know Your Editing Tools 75 Chapter 4 • Setting Up Your Templates and Office Standards 97 Chapter 5 • Customizing System Families and Project Settings in Your Template 147 Chapter 6 • Modeling Principles in Revit I 179 Chapter 7 • Modeling Principles in Revit II 199 Chapter 8 • Concept Massing Studies 227 Chapter 9 • From Conceptual Mass to a Real Building 265 Chapter 10 • Working with Design Options 299 Chapter 11 • Creating Custom 3D Content 319 Chapter 12 • Extended Modeling Techniques—Walls 351 Chapter 13 • Extended Modeling Techniques—Roofs and Floors 377 Chapter 14 • Extended Modeling Techniques—Railings and Fences 421 Chapter 15 • Presentation Techniques for Plans, Sections, and Elevations 439 Chapter 16 • Presenting Perspective Views 461 Chapter 17 • Fine-Tuning Your Preliminary Design 481 Chapter 18 • Evaluating Your Preliminary Design: Sustainability 507 Chapter 19 • Annotating Your Model 531 Chapter 20 • Developing the Design with SmartWorkflows 583 ... www.sybex.com/go/masteringrevit2010 To download the trial version of Revit Architecture, go to www.autodesk.com/revitarchitecture, where you’ll also find complete system requirements for running Revit Enjoy! Revit. .. the second edition of Mastering Revit Architecture, based on the Revit Architecture 2010 release This book follows on the heels of our updated Introducing Revit Architecture 2010 (Wiley, 2009)... what is now called Revit Architecture Since joining Autodesk with the Revit acquisition, he was a product designer for Revit Architecture, lead the design team working on Revit Structure, and