The Challenges with Referencing a Website in a Book

In my Revit textbooks, I sometimes reference manufacture content on websites to help develop a more realistic and interesting project. Of course, the challenge is that websites change. This happened again recently, which created a number of questions from instructors and students.

Here are the details,
Below is an excerpt from my Interior Design Using Autodesk Revit 2018, from chapter 9, which is all about ceilings.

Well, if you go to this website now, it has totally changed and there is no longer any sign of a Revit link; http://www.usgdesignstudio.com/Celebration.asp. I do check all these links every year, but this one has changed recently.

The solution is to provide the required family with the book's online dataset. Thankfully the files are on longer delivered on a physical disc. The files are found at SDC Publications website per the steps shown in the image below. Notice, in the image, there is also a link for errata... I wrote about that recently as well: Even Homer Nods; SDC Publications Book Errata.

This chapter is interesting as it gets into a lot of detail about realistic ceiling construction, including soffits and bulkheads. Here is another related post: Soffit and Bulkhead Modelling in Autodesk Revit.

The image below is a couple random pages, from my book, with images from the USG Handbook (used by permission). The book can now be found for free here: Gypsum Construction Handbook. This book provides essential information for anyone designing and detailing with metal studs and gypsum board!