Acknowledgments

Thank you, Shelley, for knowing exactly the support I needed to accomplish this task. Thank you also for sacrificing so much time for this. Thanks to my family for your kindness and encouragement.

I have had the great opportunity to work with many wonderful people who have influenced my career and provided wisdom, guidance, and friendship. Thanks to Dave Sammons and Mike Taylor for sharing so much insight on what it takes to collaborate and work as a team and for being such good friends. Thank you, Kevin Austin, for giving me the opportunity to learn, research, and grow as a professional. Thanks to Jim Bish for knowing pretty much everything. Thank you to everyone else at Inlet Technology; my time there has proved to be invaluable. I also want to thank my friends and colleagues at Clark Nexsen, where I have been given the opportunity to grow and learn in such a wonderful working environment, which I could never take for granted. Thanks Johan, Tom, Scott, Willie, Leslie, Kyle, Mickey, and Bobby. You guys are the best!

I cannot bypass the opportunity to thank all the incredible people at Sybex. Thank you, Willem, for once again keeping things moving. Thank you, Gary and Eric, for being such great editors. I’m sure there are many others who have worked hard to bring this book together. Thank you, all!

Thank you, Simon, for your input and insight. Thanks also for your friendship. Joel, thanks so much for stepping in and providing much needed support. It has been my pleasure to work with you both.

—Don Bokmiller

To my wife, Carole, thanking you for your support over the past few months while working on this project doesn’t go anywhere near the thanks due for all your hard work and patience while I have been writing late into the night. Your support over the years has helped me achieve so much—what else can I say but thank you and I love you? Thanks also to my daughter, Jess, a beautiful person whose hard work at school will take her places—she makes me laugh. I also want to say thanks to my Mum and Dad, although they live on the other side of the planet, their encouragement has helped me succeed when my high school teachers just laughed in my face.

In the past few years I have had so many exciting opportunities to develop, learn, teach, and travel. I would not have been able to do any of this without the full support of my family. Thank you also to JASMAX architects. After moving to New Zealand, I picked up Revit at version 5.1, meaning that I (and they) had an early introduction to Revit. The transition back into building services was so much simpler with the newly developing toolset, and I was lucky enough to start with Revit Systems, taught to me by my friend and mentor Wesley Benn.

Thank you to everyone at Sybex who has helped and encouraged me with the writing and technical editing of this book, especially Willem, Gary, and Pete.

Finally, a special thanks to Don Bokmiller. Mate, if you hadn’t liked my AUGI comments so much, I wouldn’t be here right now, having the opportunity to thank you and counting you as a friend.

—Simon Whitbread

Rachel, my lovely wife, you’ve always shown tremendous confidence in me, without which I’m sure I would have very little success.

To my longtime Revit colleague and Autodesk University co-speaker, Jarrod Baumann; we’ve certainly proved that two heads are much, much better than one.

I also want to express my gratitude to the entire community of helpful users collaborating on www.augi.com and other similar sites. As a whole, you remain my primary source of help for the stickiest of software problems.

—Joel Londenberg