Features

AutoCAD® Revit® MEP Suite combines Autodesk® Revit® MEP building information modeling (BIM) software with the widely used AutoCAD® MEP software.

Key Features of Revit MEP

Building Information Modeling for MEP Engineers
Autodesk Revit MEP software is the building information modeling (BIM) software for mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) engineers, providing purpose-built tools for building systems design and analysis.

• With parametric change management technology, modifications are coordinated more consistently across the model.
• Choose from multiple auto-layout path suggestions to determine the best path for your design, or modify the auto-layouts and let Revit MEP create the appropriate ductwork and fittings automatically.
• The ability to change a schedule and automatically update the model is a key benefit of Revit MEP.

Sustainable Building Design and Analysis
By using the rich building information model, with realistic, real-time design scenarios, MEP engineers can make better decisions and minimize design errors to fit a project’s sustainability strategy.

• Autodesk Revit MEP provides support for green building extensible markup language (gbXML). Export the gbXML file for use with Autodesk sustainable building design and analysis solutions such as Autodesk® Green Building Studio® web-based energy analysis service and Autodesk® Ecotect™ conceptual building performance analysis software, as well as third-party analysis applications.
• Create high-performance, sustainable buildings based on informed decisions from extensive analysis of heating and cooling loads, lighting/daylighting, thermal energy, and more.

Native Heating and Cooling Load Analysis
Autodesk Revit MEP provides native integrated heating and cooling load analysis tools to help you perform energy analysis, evaluate system loads, and produce heating and cooling load reports for a project.

• Use heating and cooling load analysis information and intuitive 3D layout tools to create HVAC ductwork and systems.
• Lay out primary and secondary HVAC systems based on integrated, automatically propagated load calculation results.
• Route and size complex duct and pipe runs between any two points based on calculated loads and system requirements.

Mechanical Systems and Duct Layout Modeling
Once your air terminals and mechanical equipment are placed, you can create supply, return, and exhaust systems to connect the components of the air system.

• Use the System Browser to verify that all of the components are assigned to an air system.
• Layout Path tools let you specify routing parameters for ductwork, to view different layout path solutions, and to manually modify layout path solutions for the air system.
• Perform duct sizing using friction and/or velocity, equal friction, or static regain sizing methods using Revit MEP duct-sizing tools. The sizing methods used in Revit MEP use the ASHRAE database, which contains information about losses for various duct fittings.

Electrical Lighting, Wire Path Layout, and Power Circuit Layout
Create single and multicircuit wiring for electrical devices, fixtures, and power receptacles automatically, using intuitive circuit creation and automated wire path layout tools.

• Increase coordination in your documentation and design layout with specific switch systems topology, independent of lighting circuits and wiring.
• Minimize design errors by using circuits to track loads, attached devices, and circuit lengths.
• Define wire types, voltage ranges and distribution systems to help ensure compatibility of electrical connections and prevent overloads and mismatched voltages.

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Key Features of AutoCAD MEP

Work in a Familiar AutoCAD Environment
Because AutoCAD MEP is built on AutoCAD, you can access all of the commands that you are familiar with from right within AutoCAD MEP. Commands such as copy, move, and array can be used for duct, pipe, conduit, and cable tray. In addition, AutoCAD MEP has enhanced building systems design tools that enable you to copy, move, and align all in one easy step.

Industry-Specific Task-Based Workspaces
Whether you are a small or a multidisciplinary firm, workspaces apply to you. You can use workspaces to save your unique individual user interface configurations that are tailored around your specific building systems design task. Once the workspaces are created, you can quickly switch between them as needed or work from one individual workspace that’s fully customized to your needs.

Dedicated Tools for Schematic Design
Using schematic tools within AutoCAD MEP, you can quickly create schematic design documentation tools. Riser diagrams and schematic plans can easily be created using tools that are logically grouped together, enabling you to more easily access them whether you are working in a mechanical, electrical, or plumbing schematic design layout. Batch convert your existing AutoCAD block libraries to schematic symbols for quick use in schematic design. The converter creates not only your standard 2D symbols, but also all the isometric symbols you will need for isometric riser diagrams.

Construction Document Representations
AutoCAD MEP gives you the ability to represent single-line and double-line piping at the same time in your construction documentation. Lay out mechanical systems in single line with unsized parts early in the design process, and then use duct-sizing tools to convert the layout to double line more easily. The enhanced pipe display combined with duct-sizing tools help to increase drafting productivity.

Smart Annotation of Objects
Annotate once for all scales. Annotative text and symbols automatically adjust based on the scale of the view. You can annotate objects with labels that consist of text or block definitions. The information in the label comes from object properties, such as duct, piping, or conduit size.

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