Revit for MEP Engineering

Physical Materials for Building Performance Analysis
Physical materials improve efficiency of BIM-based building performance workflows by assigning thermal and structural properties to the building envelope. Construction thermal value defined within Revit building elements can now be exported as gbXML for downstream building performance analysis applications.

Revit Server Enhancements
Revit Server enhancements give you more control over managing central Revit models. Local accelerators can now connect to multiple hosts, allowing you to create a distributed Revit Server network. Autodesk® Vault Collaboration AEC workflow has also been improved.

Visualization Enhancements
Revit offers a variety of visualization enhancements to give you more control over the appearance of your project within the software. A new Raytracing feature offers interactive real-time rendering; it also enables you to render Rich Photorealistic Content (RPC) in viewport. Ghost surface and transparency overrides can now be customized with each building element. Preview RPC in the realistic visual style, as well as enhanced background options for creating compelling presentation graphics.

Interoperability Enhancements
Revit offers the ability to import and export drawings to and from Bentley Microstation V7 and V8 file format, as well as improved export to DWF™ and DWG™ formats.  This enables more dependable and configurable workflow and deliverables.

Enhanced Industry Foundation Class (IFC) Support
BuildingSMART International Industry Foundation Class (IFC) version 2x3 is now certified for Revit. With the certification, Revit complies with global industry standards, including GSA standards. Open source Revit IFC exporter has been enhanced to support emerging standards. You can propose changes to the IFC export to support regional requirements—this allows you to share information more effectively with third-party applications to support design workflows.

Revit Exchange App Store
The Revit Exchange App Store is a web platform that allows you to easily gain access to add-ins and other content in the Revit platform.

Dimension Enhancements
Revit offers enhancements to dimensioning capabilities.  A new diameter dimension tool enables an individual segment in a multi-segment dimension chain to be selected and deleted. In addition, dimension instances can now display the segment values, equality text, or the equality formula string.

Autodesk 360 Integration
Revit makes it easier for Autodesk Subscription customers to gain access to integrated Autodesk 360 features, including rendering and energy analysis. Send your designs to the cloud for faster, higher quality rendering and analysis without disrupting your workflow.

Enhanced Construction Documentation with MEP Centerlines
This feature shows centerlines for round elements, including round duct, pipe, and conduit segments and fittings in hidden line, plan, and elevation views. Centerlines will display on round MEP geometry even in projects from previous versions of Revit. You can now more easily visualize which MEP elements are round based on the new centerlines.

Designing Piping to Industry Standards with Routing Preferences
With Autodesk Revit and Revit MEP engineering software, you can design and route piping according to industry piping standards to help improve accuracy. Pipe material type and sizes are defined based on industry standards, making it easier to ensure designs meet project requirements.

Design Ducts to ASHRAE Standards with Duct Fitting Database
The latest version (5.00.00) of the ASHRAE duct fitting database has been implemented for Autodesk Revit and Revit MEP engineering software. With the new ASHRAE tables, you have increased access to duct fitting pressure loss data to support your design process.

Calculating Engineering Spaces
Enable and edit room calculation points inside families for air terminals and lighting fixtures to allow for values to be reported as part of the space when conducting calculations.

Calculating Pressure and Flow for Duct and Pipe
Flow and pressure can be calculated separately for each sub-segment of a duct or pipe run when using taps instead of tee fittings. Results can be displayed to ensure that ducts or pipes are properly connected to equipment and do not have open ends.

Pressure Loss Reports for Pipe Systems
Pressure loss reports can be generated for a single duct or pipe system or multiple systems. The reports can be saved as HTML files or as CSV files and are customizable, allowing you to help validate the duct or pipe design.

Parametric Components
Parametric Components, also known as families, are the basis for all building components designed in Revit. They offer an open, graphical system for design thinking and form making as well as an opportunity to express design intent at increasingly detailed levels. Use Parametric Components for the most elaborate assemblies, such as cabinetry and equipment, as well as for the most elementary building parts, such as walls and columns. Best of all, no programming language or coding is required.

Citrix Readiness & 64 bit Support
Revit features support for Citrix® XenApp™6, giving you more flexibility and options for working from remote locations using a local server. Revit also provides native 64-bit support, helping improve performance and stability for memory-intensive tasks such as rendering, printing, model upgrading, and file importing and exporting.

Bidirectional Associativity
A change anywhere is a change everywhere. In Revit software, all model information is stored in 1 place. As a result, any information that gets changed is effectively changed throughout the Revit model.

Revit Server
Revit® Server helps project teams in different locations to more easily collaborate on shared Revit models across a wide-area network (WAN). This Revit feature helps you maintain an integrated collection of central Revit models on a single server that can be accessed from local servers. Built-in redundancy helps provide protection in case of WAN connectivity loss.

Worksharing
Worksharing distributes the power of the parametric building modeling environment across the project team. Multiple users can share the same intelligent building information model and save their work to a central file.

Vault Integration
Autodesk® Vault Collaboration AEC software is designed to work with Revit. This integration helps streamline data management associated with architecture, engineering, and multidiscipline projects—from planning through design and construction. It can help save time and improve data accuracy. Now you won't even know you’re doing data management and can focus on the project, not the data.

HVAC/Electrical Design Room Color-Fill Plans
Communicate design intent visually with room color-fill plans. This functionality minimizes the need for deciphering spreadsheets and using colored pencils on printed plans.

Update all revisions and alterations to color-fill plans automatically across your model. Create any number of schemes, and maintain better consistency for the duration of your project. 3D modeling for ductwork and piping enables you to create HVAC systems that use color schemes for design airflow, actual airflow, and mechanical zones. Create electrical color schemes for power loads and lighting per area.

Piping & Electrical Content
Many types of electrical content—including communications, fire safety, data, and nurse call—are available from within Revit. Modeling capabilities for managing electrical and data cable trays and conduits are also available. Cable trays and conduits can be routed as individual runs with or without individual fittings placed between straight sections. Control panels and individual controls or devices can help you connect objects to their appropriate panels.

System Browser
With Autodesk Revit and Revit MEP engineering software, you can gain greater flexibility during design, and focus on the systems that are important to you with the system browser feature. Select to view only the system you are working on. For example, you can view only the electrical systems and hide mechanical and plumbing systems from view. Check to see if elements are fully connected and contributing to system load requirements for more accurate sizing. See the total electrical load, air flow, or pipe flow at any point within a system.

Enhanced MEP Systems
Create and name custom duct and piping system types. Access properties for graphical overrides such as color, line weight, and line patterns to objects within a specific system. Assign objects to systems without needing to connect to system equipment. Annotate system geometry with a system abbreviation. Limit or turn off system calculations when not required.

Sloped Piping
In Autodesk Revit and Revit MEP engineering software, sloped piping tools support enhanced productivity for piping design. Create pipe slope values and transfer from project to project for design efficiency. Define the rise over run and lay out your plumbing design more easily. Calculation is automatic and slope propagation is easier when you apply a slope to a run of multiple pipe selections through fittings. Tag invert elevations at the beginning or end of a pipe run, minimizing guesswork and manual calculations. Keep track of the current pipe elevation with dynamic on-screen tooltips while routing sloped piping. Connect between 2 points in space regardless of the slope required.

Design Visualization
Capture design ideas in a photorealistic state. With easy user interaction, high-quality output, and faster render times, the mental ray®* rendering engine enables superior design presentation.

Autodesk 360 Energy Analysis for Revit
Autodesk® 360 Energy Analysis tools in Autodesk Revit and Revit MEP engineering software support sustainable design decision-making during early design. Using cloud-based analysis tools, powered by Autodesk® Green Building Studio®, you can compare the estimated energy consumption and lifecycle costs of design alternatives within Revit.  Analysis results are presented in a highly-visual, graphical format for easy interpretation.

Interference Check
Use interference checking to scan your Revit model for collisions between elements.

Tag on Placement/by Category
Tag mechanical, electrical, and plumbing components as they are being placed instead of tagging them as a separate set of steps. Tag on Placement is enabled for most categories of objects in Revit, helping to increase productivity and enable you to design more efficiently.

Panel Schedules
With Autodesk Revit and Revit MEP engineering software, you can work dynamically and experience greater flexibility by displaying panel schedule totals in current or load values. Merge multi-poled slots into a single cell. Display load classification totals for individual circuits.

Interface to External Databases
Facilitate communications with third-party estimating, planning, procurement, and facility management tools by outputting Revit model data to any ODBC-compliant database.

Material Takeoff
Material Takeoff is a Revit tool that helps calculate detailed material quantities and track material quantities in cost estimates. The parametric change engine helps support more accurate material takeoffs.

Point Cloud Tools
Revit® Point Cloud tools connect laser scans directly into the BIM) process, helping to accelerate renovation and retrofit projects. By visualizing point clouds directly within the Revit software environment, it’s easier than ever to author an as-built model with more confidence and accuracy.

DWG, DWF, DXF & DGN Support
Revit imports, exports, and links your data with industry-leading formats, including DWG™, DXF™, DGN, and IFC, so you can more easily work with data from consultants, clients, or contractors.