TABLE OF CONTENTS This chapter addresses the concerns of architectural design firms and technical schools or university architectural departments who seek to meet the current and future needs of the architectural design marketplace through the adoption and implementation of Autodesk Revit Building.
Students and designers new to Building Information Modeling will find the summary and "quick tour" exercise in this chapter a helpful introduction to the basic modeling and documentation tools in Revit Building, in preparation for more advanced concepts in later exercises.
Understand Revit Building's position as an architectural design tool
Prepare for successful implementation of Revit Building in your current work process
Experience an overview of the software
Autodesk, Inc. is the world's premier producer of mid-price design software. Its general-purpose AutoCAD drafting package is the world standard. It has sold millions of copies worldwide, and there is an entire industry of third-party developers dedicated to creating task-specific or industry-specific design applications based on the AutoCAD engine. Autodesk has developed and successfully marketed "Desktop' vertical applications to push AutoCAD into mechanical, architectural, civil, and land-development specialties.
Architectural Desktop is now in release 2006, with approximately 250,000 licenses worldwide. In April of 2002, Autodesk acquired Revit Technologies, Inc. (formerly Charles River Software), whose sole product was Revit, a parametric building modeler package. "Revit' is taken from architecture's slang for "revise it,' a nearly constant refrain in building design. Autodesk has established Revit as its non-Au-toCAD based building design and documentation system and its strategic platform...
