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It’s about time MARA 2011 showed up down under! Simon David submits a tranquil composition from Sydney…

And just to make sure Simon gets his dues, if you flip to the SOM section in the color insert of MARA 2011 and find the hospital project – Simon was the BIM coordinator for that job. He really held that ship together!

We’re really stretching the age demographic of our readers as well! Harlan Brumm from Autodesk uses our book to soothe his new baby girl. Awwww.

Be sure to check out Harlan and other Autodesk support staff on their blog, The Revit Clinic.

Keep those pictures coming. We’d love to see the digital versions of MARA 2011 in the wild (Kindle, iBooks, eReader…)

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Mastering Autodesk Revit Architecture 2011 is finally starting to ship to our brothers up north in Canada. Jay Polding sends us a couple of shots plugging the Ontario Revit Users Group as well as Canada’s main export…

Mmmmmm…beer.

>In the Wild, Part 5

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I recently took a day off (imagine that!) and spent the day with my family at our local water park. This would have made for some interesting new ‘in the wild’ pictures, but you can imagine what the water slide would have done to a copy of MARA 2011… Here are some of the latest entries from our readers.

Sean Burke from Seattle poses a copy of MARA 2011 in front of the city model at NBBJ:

One of my personal favorites…another submission from David Light getting quite literally ‘in the wild:’

So don’t be a tortoise…make like a hare and pick up your copy now! If you already have, please write a review on Amazon.com.

>In the Wild, Part 4

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Before we get to our latest ‘in the wild’ pics, we’d like to toot our own horns just a bit more…please forgive us. In the product details for Mastering Autodesk Revit Architecture 2011 on Amazon, we have been holding steady as the #1 book in the categories of CAD, Drawing & Modeling and even Autocad! THANK YOU to all of our early adopters!!

Moving on to our ‘in the wild’ submittals…Steve Stafford creates a surreal composition of beer and scale architecture while attending the SCRUG meeting…

Our own MARA 2011 contributing author, David Light, got his copy today and shows it off in the London office of HOK…

>In the Wild, Part 3

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In today’s episode, Brok Howard from St. Louis gets some rest and relaxation with his copy of MARA 2011 in the beautiful Citygarden:

But what should you do with your previous editions of Mastering Revit Architecture? Don’t throw them out! Take Tobias Hathorn’s suggestion for MARA recycling…

Keep those fun pics coming! See our original post for instructions on how to submit your own ‘in the wild’ photo.

>In the Wild, Part 2

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We’re getting some great responses to our call for pictures of your copy of Mastering Revit Architecture 2011 out and about. Here are the latest entries.

Court Myers from Oklahoma City spotted Yoda brushing up on his Revit skills… “You must unlearn what you have learned.”

Robert Yori from New York makes sure that his copy of MARA 2011 gets the proper amount of fresh air and exercise…waiting for the bus:

And soaking in the sights on Wall Street:

>Mastering Revit ‘In the Wild’ pics

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As of Friday July 16, Mastering Autodesk Revit Architecture 2011 has been shipping in the continental United States – all 5-1/2 pounds of it! We know we have some really creative friends, so let’s just see how creative you can be…

Step One: Get a copy of MARA 2011 here or here.

Step Two: Take a photo or short video of the book out ‘in the wild.’

Step Three: Email it to us

Step Four: Don’t forget to leave a review on Amazon…please!

If your entries are creative and cool – remember, we’re big South Park/Futurama/Family Guy fans – we’ll post them right here for everyone to see.

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Our first pic is from fellow Revit guru, Mark Schmieding. He snapped this self-portrait while the film crew for Transformers 3 was causing mass destruction outside his Chicago office. We like to follow the words of director Michael Bay who once exclaimed…”I demand things to be AWESOME!”

Not from Mark, but on the Transformers theme…

>Mastering Revit: Walls, Floors and Roofs

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As the snow falls in the Northeast today, I’m still churning out high quality content for Mastering Revit Architecture 2011. Now, don’t get me wrong…the editing process isn’t for the faint-hearted or those with weak intestinal fortitude.  Last night was a long night of writer’s block and a complete redeux on one chapter’s development edits – “but then, in the midst of my preparations for hari kari, it came to me”…the throngs of gurus and wizards in the global Revit community!  We continue to seek your input to make this tome the best source of valuable Revit knowledge to date. 

From my desk so far, I have drafted Templates and Standards, Working with Consultants (Revit-to-Revit), and Interoperability: Working Multiplatform.  The next few chapters on my plate cover complex modeling of Walls, Curtain Walls, Floors and Roofs.  As the outlining process is just beginning for me, I’d love to hear suggestions from any of our readers.  If you have some frustrations, success stories or even some wicked cool samples, please drop us an email at:

masteringrevit AT architecture-tech.com

>Mastering Revit – Interoperability

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It’s time for another chapter update in Mastering Revit.  I am developing the content covering Interoperability and would like to get your feedback.  First, please click the link below to launch a short survey…

Click here to take survey

I am excited about developing a chapter dedicated completely to the aspects of interoperability – and not just the ‘picks and clicks’ – but the real world scenarios and why you would use one method over another. In this chapter, I’ll be writing about:

• 2D plan data for conversion to Revit
• Coordination of 2D data (furniture, lighting layouts, etc.)
• Use of CAD details
• Imported 3D data for massing/faces
• Imported 3D data for custom element geometry
• IFC import and export
• DWF design review workflow

Let me know what you think about these topics.

>Mastering Revit – Templates

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As we begin our journey in re-writing “Mastering Revit Architecture,” we would like to gather as much feedback as possible to make the 2011 version the best yet. My first chapter will be covering Revit Templates and I have created a short online survey to gather feedback from our readers. Please feel free to click the link below to participate or leave your comments here on our blog.

Click here to take survey