The ultimate reference and tutorial to harness the power of Revit MEP This Autodesk Official Press book will help you develop your expertise with Revit MEPs core concepts and functionality. Based on the authors years of realworld experience, this comprehensive reference and tutorial has been updated to cover all of the new features of Revit MEP, and includes best practices, techniques, tips, tricks, and realworld exercises to help you hone your skills. Shows how to use the interface effectively, explains how to create and use project templates, and details ways you can improve efficiency with worksharing and collaboration Addresses generating schedules that show quantities, materials, design dependencies, and more Looks at creating logical air, water, and fire protection systems; evaluating building loads; and placing air and water distribution equipment
[...]... to Mastering Autodesk Revit MEP 2014 We have worked diligently to bring you a book that takes you through the core features and functionality of Revit MEP 2014 from both the design and documentation perspectives Revit MEP started out as Revit Systems in 2006, and, in just a few years, it has been on a fast-track development pace in order to bring it up to speed with the Revit Architecture and Revit. .. of Revit This is Autodesk Revit and it combines all the features of Autodesk Revit Architecture, Autodesk Revit Structure, and Autodesk Revit MEP This version is available to those who purchase the Building Design Suites packages released by Autodesk, and gives users the option to deploy/install either each separate version of Revit or the all-inclusive one, giving them all the available Revit. .. Mastering Autodesk Revit MEP 2014, having a good knowledge of where tools are located and how to access the commands easily is the best way to eficiently use Revit MEP 2014, hence this chapter on the user interface Improvements and changes have been made to the user interface for this version, through the addition of tools in contextual tabs and improved functionality If you are transitioning to Revit MEP 2014. .. the use of Revit from a best-practices standpoint, which we hope will inspire you to think about ways to make Revit MEP 2014 work best for you Any topics not covered were not omitted to imply that they are unimportant, but simply because you can ind information about these features in the documentation provided by Autodesk and in the Revit MEP 2014 Help The next three parts of the book are MEP- speciic... of what Revit MEP 2014 has to offer Part 3: Autodesk Revit MEP for Electrical Design Chapter 12: Lighting In this chapter, you will learn how to place lighting ixtures into your projects, including site lighting The use of lighting switches is also discussed, along with the relationship between lighting ixtures and the spaces they occupy This chapter also covers the basics for using Revit MEP for lighting... to enter into the BIM arena effectively through the use of Revit MEP 2014 Part 5: Managing Content in Autodesk Revit MEP Chapter 17: Solid Modeling The foundation for custom content creation is having the ability to create the forms required to build component families In this chapter, you will learn how to use the tools available in Revit MEP to create model geometry You will also learn how to make... for MEP modeling tools Formerly the Home tab, this tab has been renamed to allow for continuity between Autodesk Revit MEP and Autodesk Revit The tab is divided into panels that are speciic to each of the main disciplines The Systems tab is where you can ind the tools to build an MEP model Each of the discipline panels has a small arrow in the lower-right corner that provides quick access to the MEP. .. Interface Autodesk Revit MEP 2014 is similar to the majority of the software produced by Autodesk in that it utilizes a ribbon interface This allows for not just ease of access to the tools needed for mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) design and modeling, but also a familiarity between those different software packages, making the transition between them easier Although this book is titled Mastering. .. various sizes and company structures on their use of Revit MEP He has taught classes and given presentations to local engineering organizations Don is an Autodesk User Group International (AUGI) member and has presented at Autodesk University and the Revit Technology Conference USA Simon Whitbread, Revit and CAD implementation specialist, started using Revit at release 5.1 He has over 30 years of experience... development pace in order to bring it up to speed with the Revit Architecture and Revit Structure platforms The 2014 release of Revit MEP provides platform improvements along with MEP- speciic features that make this a very exciting edition When Revit Systems was irst released, it was primarily to allow MEP engineers to join the move toward building information modeling (BIM) that was being taken on by architects