>A show of hands – how many of you remember when Phil Read came to your offices to teach you about this thing called Revit? (Pronounced ‘Ree-vit’ by your project managers and ‘He costs how much?’ by the office partners). Remember that? In my office, back in early 2000-something, this guy showed up in a suit and tie to wax poetic about how I was going to be able to design and document our first building over 1,000,000 sq ft using this tool Autodesk had just acquired. It was a bit surreal.
Anyone ever watch that famous interview with Salvador Dali? It was kinda like that. There was this crazy guy in a suit spouting off terms like ‘Relinquish All Mine’ and ‘Reload Latest’ and ‘you can totally build a ramp made out of gyp. board and attach it to the bottom of a stair and call it a ceiling.’ I was completely lost but totally intrigued.
Want your own copy of that memory? Phil is now leading the made-for-home version of this experience. We’re doing a new series of book called Revit Essentials which is going to mimic that 3 day, intensive class you once went through. We’re about 50% complete and it’s been an interesting process trying to distill 3 days worth of training into a compact book. It won’t be out until next year but we’re hoping to take it in a new and interesting learning direction.