Autodesk Revit MEP 2012

Autodesk Revit MEP Building Information Modeling (BIM) software for mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) engineers supports more accurate and efficient building systems design projects from concept through construction

• Design building systems more accurately using coordinated, consistent information inherent in the intelligent Revit MEP model
• Analyze for efficiency with integrated analysis earlier in the process
• Keep documentation coordinated and consistent with parametric change management technology
• Deliver 3D models and documentation to support the building lifecycle

Features:

Sloped Piping
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

System Browser Enhancements
Gain greater flexibility during design, and focus on the systems that are important to you with an enhanced 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 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

Duct & Pipe Placeholders Enhance design intent even from the earliest stages with placeholder objects for ducts and pipes. Use placeholders to determine location of duct or pipe runs prior to finalizing your designs. Easily convert placeholders to more detailed objects with fittings, and size the run once your design is finalized

Duct & Pipe Insulation & Lining Using a single command, add insulation to entire duct and pipe runs. For even greater detail, add lining to duct. Include important design details with a single command and then perform interference checking on the insulation to avoid conflicts with other systems or structural and architectural objects. Automatically adjust duct sizes when you’re sizing ducts that include lining

Panel Schedules 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

Point Clouds Revit Point Cloud tools connect laser scans directly into the Building Information Modeling (BIM) process, helping to accelerate renovation and retrofit projects. By visualizing point clouds directly within the Revit MEP software environment, it’s easier to author an as-built building information model with more confidence and accuracy

Conceptual Energy Analysis Conceptual Energy Analysis tools* support sustainable design decision-making during early design. Using cloud-based analysis tools, you can compare the energy consumption and lifecycle costs of design alternatives within Revit MEP software. Analysis results are presented in a highly-visual, graphical format for easier interpretation

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

Step up to the challenge.

Autodesk® Revit® MEP software helps mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineering firms meet the heightened demands of today’s global marketplace.

BIM for Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing Engineers
Autodesk® Revit® MEP software is the building information modeling (BIM) solution for mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) engineers, providing purpose-built tools for building systems design and analysis. With Revit MEP, engineers can make better decisions earlier in the design process because they can accurately visualize building systems before they are built. The software’s built-in analysis capabilities helps users create more sustainable designs and share designs using a wide variety of partner applications, resulting in optimal building performance and efficiency. Working with a building information model helps keep design data coordinated, minimizes errors, and enhances collaboration among engineering and architecture teams.

Building Systems Modeling and Layout
Revit MEP software’s modeling and layout tools enable engineers to create mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems more accurately and easily. Automatic routing solutions enable users to model the ductwork, plumbing, and piping systems, or manually lay out lighting and power systems. Revit MEP software’s parametric change technology means that any change to the MEP model is automatically coordinated throughout the model. Maintaining a single, consistent model of the building helps to keep drawings coordinated and reduce errors.

Sustainable Design with Building Performance Analysis
Revit MEP produces rich building information models that represent realistic, real-time design scenarios, helping users to make more informed design decisions earlier in the process. Project team members can better meet goals and sustainability initiatives, perform energy analysis, evaluate system loads, and produce heating and cooling load reports with native integrated analysis tools. Revit MEP also enables the exporting of green building extensible markup language (gbXML) files for use with Autodesk® Ecotect® Analysis software and Autodesk® Green Building Studio® web-based service as well as third-party applications for sustainable design and analysis.

Better Engineering Design, Better-Performing Buildings
Today’s complex buildings require leading-edge systems’ engineering tools to optimize performance in both efficiency and use. As projects increase in complexity, clearly communicating designs and design changes among mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineers and their extended teams is paramount. Revit MEP software’s purpose-built systems’ analysis and optimization tools enable team members to receive feedback about their MEP designs in real time, resulting in better-performing designs earlier in the process.

Optimize performance with powerful software.

Successful projects start with leading-edge system engineering tools.

Duct and Pipe System Modeling
Intuitive layout tools enable easier model modifications. Revit MEP automatically updates model views and sheets, helping to maintain document and project consistency. Engineers can create HVAC systems with mechanical functionality and provide 3D modeling for ductwork and piping as well as modify the model by dragging design elements onto the screen in almost any view. Modeling can also be done in both section and elevation views. All model views and sheets update automatically whenever a change is made anywhere for more accurate, coordinated designs and documents.

Duct and Pipe Sizing/Pressure Calculations
With built-in calculators in Autodesk Revit MEP software, engineers can perform sizing and pressure loss calculations according to industrystandard methods and specifications, including the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) fitting loss database. System sizing tools instantly update the size and design parameters of duct and pipe elements without the need for file exchanges or third-party applications. Select a dynamic sizing method for the ductwork and piping systems in your plans using duct sizing and pipe sizing tools, including friction, velocity, static regain, and equal friction sizing method for duct sizing, and velocity or friction method for pipe sizing.

HVAC and Electrical System Design
Communicate design intent visually with room color-fill plans. With color schemes, team members no longer have to spend time deciphering spreadsheets and using colored pencils on printed plans. All revisions and alterations to color-fill plans are updated automatically across the model. Create any number of schemes, and maintain better consistency for the duration of the project. Three-dimensional modeling for ductwork and piping enables users to create HVAC systems that can be clearly shown using color schemes for design airflow, actual airflow, mechanical zones, and more. Create electrical color schemes for power loads, lighting per area, and more.

Conduit and Cable Tray Modeling
Revit MEP contains powerful layout tools that enable easier modeling of electrical and data cable trays and conduit. Better coordinate and create accurate construction drawings using real-world conduit and cable tray combinations. New schedule types can report the overall length of cable tray and conduit runs, resulting in rapid quantification of required materials.

Automatic Generation of Construction Document Views
Automatically generate plan, section, elevation, detail, and schedule views that more precisely reflect design information. Synchronized model views from a common database enable more consistent, coordinated change management. The entire electrical, plumbing, and mechanical design team benefits from more accurate, coordinated construction documents that building information modeling provides.

Unsurpassed AutoCAD Support
Leverage the millions of professionally trained AutoCAD users worldwide to share and complete MEP projects faster. Revit MEP provides seamless support for AutoCAD software’s DWG™ file format enabling you to save and share files with confidence. DWG technology from Autodesk is the authentic, accurate, and reliable way to store and share design data.

Building information modeling for MEP engineers

BIM—simply a better way of working.

Autodesk Revit MEP software is purpose-built for building information modeling (BIM). BIM is an integrated process built on coordinated, reliable information about a project from design through construction and into operations. By adopting BIM, MEP fi rms can use this consistent information throughout the process to design and document innovative projects, accurately visualize appearance for better communication, and simulate real-world MEP system performance for better understanding of cost, scheduling, and environmental impact. Enjoy an intuitive, straightforward design process with software that mirrors the real world of engineering. Revit MEP works holistically, treating information in terms of the entire building, linking mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems with the building model. Reap the competitive advantage of BIM by aiding the engineer to optimize MEP systems design for buildings, and gain better building performance analysis support for engineers. Get design feedback instantly from the building information model when working within an Autodesk® Revit®-based
architectural and engineering workfl ow. Realize the benefi t of data-driven design to easily keep track of a project’s scope, schedule, and budget.

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Work together to meet the demands of your most ambitious projects.

Optimized Design Collaboration and Coordination
Using Autodesk Revit MEP software, architects; structural engineers; and mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineers can more effectively collaborate and interact based on workflow and project requirements. Minimize design coordination errors among the extended project team, and help reduce design conflicts with real-time clash and interference detection.

Bidirectional Associativity
A change anywhere is a change everywhere. In Autodesk Revit MEP, all model information is stored in a single, coordinated database. Revisions and alterations to information are automatically updated throughout the model, helping to significantly reduce errors and omissions.

Parametric Components
Parametric components, also known as families, are the basis for all building components designed in Revit MEP. These components offer an open, graphical system for design thinking and form making, while providing the opportunity to adjust and express design intent at increasingly detailed levels. Use parametric components for the most elaborate assemblies, such as electrical panels, chillers, and equipment as well as for the most elementary MEP parts, such as pipe fittings and conduit. Best of all, no programming language or coding is necessary or required.

Intuitive User Interface
Revit MEP software features a streamlined, intuitive user interface. Users can find favorite tools and commands faster, locate lesser-used tools more efficiently, and discover relevant new features more easily. The result is less time searching through menus and toolbars, and more time getting work done.

Native 64-bit Support
Native 64-bit support enhances Revit MEP software’s ability to handle large projects and helps improve performance and stability for memoryintensive tasks such as rendering, printing, model upgrading, and file importing and exporting.

System Requirements:

For 32-Bit Autodesk Revit MEP 2012

• Microsoft® Windows® 7 32-bit Enterprise, Ultimate, Professional, or Home Premium, Microsoft® Windows Vista® 32-bit (SP2 or later) Enterprise, Ultimate, Business, or Home Premium, or Microsoft® Windows® XP (SP2 or later) Professional or Home edition*
• For Microsoft Windows 7 32-bit or Microsoft Windows Vista 32-bit: Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon™ dual-core processor, 3.0 GHz (or higher) with SSE2 technology
• For Microsoft Windows XP: Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon dual core, 1.6 GHz (or higher) with SSE2 technology
• 4 GB RAM (Usually sufficient for a typical editing session for a single model of approximately 100 MB on disk)
• 5 GB free disk space
• 1,280 x 1,024 monitor with true color
• Display adapter capable of 24-bit color for basic graphics, 256 MB DirectX® 10-capable graphics card with Shader Model 3 for advanced graphics (find out more about recommended graphics hardware)
• Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 7.0 (or later)
• Microsoft Mouse-compliant pointing device

For 64-Bit Autodesk Revit MEP 2012

• Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit Enterprise, Ultimate, Professional, or Home Premium edition, Microsoft Windows Vista 64-bit (SP2 or later) Enterprise, Ultimate, Business, or Home Premium edition, or Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional x64 edition (SP2 or later)*
• For Windows 7 64-bit or Windows Vista 64-bit: Intel® Core™ i5-2300 quad-core processor (2.8 GHz, 6 MB cache) or equivalent AMD® processor.
• For Windows XP Professional x64: Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon dual core, 1.6 GHz (or higher) with SSE2 technology
• 8 GB RAM (Usually sufficient for a typical editing session for a single model of approximately 300 MB on disk)
• 5 GB free disk space
• 1,680 x 1,050 monitor with true color
• 1 GB DirectX 10 capable graphics card with Shader Model 3 (find out more about recommended graphics hardware)
• Internet Explorer 7.0 (or later)
• Microsoft Mouse-compliant pointing device