Interior Design Using Autodesk Revit 2015

I've been using this book for my Revit in Interior Design class. This is a fantastic book that details the steps for using Revit for the beginner Revit student. I like the fact that it is focused on Interior Designer so there are not any irrelevant exercises for practice. What I also like are the diagrams and screen shots of the steps you are learning. There are not only screen shots, but the tools you are to select are circled or called out in some way. A screen shot is not useful if you don't know which tool to look for or select. I am kind of analytical, so the REALLY great thing I like about this book is that it not only tells you what to click on, but WHY you are clicking on it. In many areas, the book explains what happens if you don't do something correctly and how it may affect your project. There is only one suggestion for improvement I would make. Chapter 6 starts with building floor plans and there is A LOT of information about the nuts and bolts, i.e. top and base constraints, wrapping, sweeps and reveals, wall joins, editing profiles, making slanted walls, etc. This is all before you even get into exercises creating a floor plan. Pages 6-1 to 6-24 is all this background and foundation information. Exercises to begin building a floor plan start on page 6-25. I think there is a better way to integrate the information on the first 24 pages into more useful exercises. These 24 pages need to be broken up in some way. Most of our students' eyes were glazing over trying to retain the information in this first section of chapter 6. Overall, I would give this book 4.5 stars and will look for more instructional books by this author.

I am an architect. I also own the companion "Residential Design for Autodesk Revit" book, but I highly recommend this "Interior Design" version to every architect since it covers a lot of material I have not found elsewhere which architects can use as well as Interior Designers. The book begins with some basic Revit guidance, however I especially appreciate the amount of detail it provides about how to use and create materials for rendering, how to create ceilings, stairs, toilet rooms, floor finishes, signs, and so on. The book also gives website locations where one can download Revit families from product manufacturers such as cabinets, carpets, paint colors, etc. This is the fifth book I've purchased on Revit, and it has far exceeded my expectations as it has really filled in a lot of gaps I've found lacking in my other books. And I give the book high marks for describing every technique in easy to follow step by step instructions - and I haven't even opened the included DVD yet !

The book is great it goes into a little more detail into what goes behind making a proper revit material. at times though the book goes very vague and you will get lost. Overall the author knows his material, and is extremely knowledgeable in the subject. I only wish that these book would start publishing in color pictures.

This is a book written by an expert in the field of Revit. Daniel has many books on Revit, and this is another excellent one. The collaboration with Interior Designers from a first rate firm, makes the book even more relevant. This book is a must have for Interior Designers that want to know Revit. Yes, know Revit, not just learn it. The detail of the book is easy to read, easy to follow, and quick to learn. Buy this book ,learn how Revit is a game changer of Interior Design

Wow. Just wow is this an awesome book. I would consider it a must have for any student of Revit Architecture. It is an amazing resource. Highly recommended. It is such a good book that I almost didn't want to leave a review about it to keep it a secret.

This is a fairly good book, and it covers a lot of ground. However, one of the most confounding parts of the book and materials are the Appendices (B and C) which are found on the DVD that comes with the book. The information covered in these DVDs include such things as the basics of drawing lines, boxes, circles, osnap settings, and various types of objects, etc., and include a number of exercises to teach how to use these tools. The problem is that while the Appendices are in PDF format, it is not possible to print them out to reference, and so the only way to use them is to have two computers going at once, with one computer devoted to the opened pages of the PDF documents and the other devoted to the Revit program. Why could these chapters not have been included with the book? Were these chapters hastily written after the book had been published? It is just nonsensical and hopefully has been addressed in the subsequent editions of the book.

Haven't dived into it but the book seems great.

I was glad that the book was like new and that the disc that accompanies the book was also in there. Sometime when you order books that have a disc the disc is missing, but this was all in tact and new.