Inside the System

Are you delivering your first project with BIM?

Many MEP engineering firms are challenged when implementing building information modeling (BIM) on building projects for the first time.Check out this white paper that provides guidance on how to leverage some of our core MEP engineering products and supporting solutions to better deliver an MEP BIM project.

Pipe Fitting and Drop Sizes

The world of small diameter pipe when working in model based software is very different from the world working with 2D lines, arcs, and circles.

In Revit's 'Fine' Detail Level, elements are shown 'actual size'.  I.e., a 1" pipe valve or rise/drop symbol is representative of the actual size of that element in the 'real world'.

In Revit's Coarse and Medium Detail level views, these elements are 'scaled' to the settings defined in Mechanical Settings... these settings are demonstrated below.

This image shows what settings control the display of the piping elements.

This video demonstrates the Rise Drop Annotation Size Setting

This video demonstrates the Pipe Fitting Annotation Size Setting

See what people like you are doing with Revit MEP

Check out this video that discusses how Glumac, an MEP consulting engineering services firm, are incorporating technology including Revit MEP, into their workflow to create innovative, sustainable designs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNTEv7M_Wt4

Autodesk and EastCoast CAD BIM Conference!

Join Autodesk and EastCoast CAD on August 18^th, in Chicago Illinois for “A Contractor’s Guide to BIM 2009.” Conference.

Over 50 of the leading mechanical and HVAC contractors; as well as members of the Autodesk Revit and EastCoast Product Teams are expected to join along with representatives from the top general contractors and the largest HVAC, fabrication and mechanical firms in North America! The conference will be an opportunity for all to share their real world experiences of implementing BIM. 

If you are interested in learning more and joining us for this event please click here.

Linked DWG in Mechanical and Electrical Views no Longer Halftone in 2010

In prior releases of Revit, linked  DWG files were displayed as halftone in Mechanical and Electrical views.  In 2010, this is no longer the case.  If you WANT the linked .dwg to be halftone:

1. Edit the Visibility/Graphics overrides for the view
2. Click the Imported Categories tab
3. Check the Halftone box for the particular DWG.

This recently came up in the Revit MEP discussions forum:  http://discussion.autodesk.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=728971&tstart=0

You are Invited!

Greetings!

On behalf of the Graduate School of Design at Harvard and the Office for Sustainability, you are invited as either an owner, architect, or energy consultant, to participate in an online survey on the use of building energy simulation during design, construction and operation. A special emphasis of the survey is to better understand who on the design team owns and gets access to the energy model of a building, what role the model currently plays during building design and construction, and how the use of the model could be extended to the overall lifetime of a building.

The survey is being carried out by the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University in collaboration with the Office for Sustainability. The survey is funded through the Harvard Real Estate Academic Initiative. Our goal is to develop recommendations of how owners of large real state should interact with their building design teams to get maximum benefit from their building performance analysis contracts. We hope that your input will help us to develop recommendations that are acceptable, fair and profitable to all members of the design team.

To participate in the survey simply go to http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=JagO4lMUgSWMjQM7J2EaHQ_3d_3d.

Thank-you for your participation! Please forward the survey link to your professional networks.

The survey will remain open until August 15^th.

McQuay International provides Revit MEP Content

McQuay International, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Daikin Industries, Ltd. and a worldwide manufacturer of HVAC and refrigeration products, has been offering more design files of its products in Revit format. Check out this article to learn more about how they are developing this content and where it is available from so that you can begin using it today!

Autodesk Revit MEP 2010 Update 1 is available.

All,

I am pleased to annouce that Update 1 for Autodesk Revit MEP 2010 is now available at http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet...12&id=12899931

The Update can be applied to all languages of Revit MEP. Currently, only the English download page has the update, but the other language download pages will be available in the next few days.

Regards,
__________________
David Pothier
Product Manager,
Revit MEP

Un-pin AutoCAD MEP Dialogs in Vista

In AutoCAD MEP, although many windows have been migrated to the Properties Palette (such as PipeAdd), some still remain, such as the DuctAdd window.  If you are using Vista, you may have noticed that the 'Pin' control on these windows (which allows the windows to auto-hide) is not visible due to the Vista themes... however, if you right-click on the title of the window, there is an 'Enable Rollup' option that will accomplish the same thing.

New RDB Link Tool for Revit Family

New RDB Link Tool for Revit Family Available on Autodesk Labs!

Check out the new RDB Link Tool! The RDB Link tool enables you to export data from the elements in a Revit project and maintain relationships against data that exists outside of Revit.  The tool allows for both import and export of the project data and will allow the user to make changes on the database side that affect the data within the project once imported. Learn more by visiting Autodesk Labs and downloading today!

Supported Applications

§  Autodesk Revit Architecture 2010

§  Autodesk Revit Structure 2010

§  Autodesk Revit MEP 2010

Supported database platforms

§  Supported databases when running under 32 bit: MS Access 2003/2007 and SQL Server

2005/2008.

§  Supported databases when running under 64 bit: SQL Server 2005/2008.