Congratulations! You have studied and experimented with the major features of a powerful, efficient building-design application, and you have joined the growing ranks of those able to use the latest technology that the market has to offer. Practice and experience with Revit Building will ensure speed in your work and the confidence to explore its extensive capabilities.

For those of you in business, it's now up to you and your organization to determine how best to implement what Revit Building has to offer. Take a look at the Appendix for a discussion of factors that affect the implementation process in design firms. You can blend Revit Building into your workflow by combining it with standard CAD applications, or start out with a project planned and executed entirely using BIM (Building Information Modeling). Either way, you can refer back to the concepts and exercises in this text to help you understand and make effective use of Revit Building's techniques for massing, modeling, drafting, data management and illustration in your own work process. It's important to match your expectations with your resources. It will be hard to ask too much of the program, but it can be easy to underestimate the time and effort necessary to make it do exactly what you think you are asking for.

If you worked through this text on Revit Building as part of a school curriculum, you have now explored the only architectural design application in wide use that combines drafting, massing, element modeling, illustration and...