At the start of each chapter the reader is prompted to watch a video that previews the topics that will be covered in the proceeding chapter. The videos contained on the included DVD make it easy to see the menu selections and will make learning Revit Architecture straightforward and simple.

Using step-by-step tutorial lessons, the residential project is followed through to create elevations, sections, floor plans, renderings, construction sets, etc. Throughout the rest of the book a residential building is created and the many tools and features of Revit Architecture 2011 are covered in greater detail. The first four chapters are intended to get the reader familiar with the user interface and many of the common menus and tools. The lessons then begin with an introduction to Revit Architecture 2011. This book starts with an optional basic introduction to hand sketching techniques and concepts intended to increase your ability to sketch design ideas by hand and to think three-dimensionally. Each book comes with a DVD containing numerous video presentations in which the author shows and explains the many tools and techniques used in Revit Architecture 2011. This text takes a project based approach to learning Revit Architecture in which the student develops a single family residence all the way to photo-realistic renderings like the one on the cover. (It took slightly less than 24 hours for the images to all export)Ĭlick here to see the video tutorial and final video of the animation.Residential Design Using Revit Architecture 2011 is designed for the architectural student new to Revit Architecture 2011. Since the animations are all the same, I figured I'd answer it using a 1,713 frame animation I did inside Navisworks.

If you have found a way to make them look good I would be very interested in any tips you might have. 'I am a student at Texas A&M and am getting very frustrated at the quality of my render 4d videos. so I figured, why not create a little tutorial on it.

I recently got this question posed to me by someone in my comments section, and I've heard it before. A perfect example is his tutorial/writeup about rendering animations in Navisworks based on a Revit model: The blog is filled with some great information on the construction end of the BIM process. For those of you who don't know who John Tocci is here is a little bio over at his blog. For those of you looking for a new blog to follow I highly suggest John Tocci's blog.

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