TABLE OF CONTENTS The next step is to take the preliminary building design and begin some basic spatial analysis on the Revit model. You ll see how creating some simple schedules of building and room areas can be used to verify program data and start some preliminary cost analysis.
In this chapter you learn about verifying program data and evaluating a project s initial feasibility. You ll learn how to do the following:
Create your own dynamic area plans
Perform an initial cost estimate for the project
Create a schedule of materials from the model
At this point, we are going to introduce a scenario we will be building upon for the next several chapters. As this is a Mastering book, we will not go into significant detail about how to perform some of the more basic skills in Revit, such as how to make simple walls, floors, and roofs. Instead, we will work off of an existing design that is more developed and build skills by adding and extracting information from this base model. In this and the following chapters, we will take the design and push it from a preliminary design level into a set of design documents with many of the common architectural requirements that occur in a typical project workflow.
The model we will be using for the next several chapters can be downloaded from www.sybex.com/ go/masteringrevit2008. Called the Foundation, it was part of a design competition for a university alumni facility...
