Autodesk AUTOCAD MEP User manual

Autodesk®

MEP Engineering Solution

See inside the walls.

AutoCAD®

MEP

Draft. Design. Deliver

Beneﬁt from greater drafting productivity, better

accuracy, and design coordination opportunities.

MEP designers and drafters are spending too much

time on repetitive tasks. Autodesk oers a broad

suite of solutions to help MEP professionals stay

ahead of the competition and remain competitive.

With AutoCAD MEP, production of construction

documents is automated, helping to save time and

allowing for the creation of single-line and double-

line systems in addition to schematics. Whether

you are working on a building project led by an

architect or partnering with professionals from other

disciplines such as structural and civil engineering

for the design of water/wastewater facilities,

AutoCAD MEP allows you to work in the familiar

AutoCAD environment while implementing new

systems and documentation tools at your own pace.

Better Design Accuracy

With constant requests to accommodate last

minute changes, MEP professionals need to

eciently create and edit designs. Using AutoCAD

MEP, you can more easily assess designs, sizing, and

system balances with integrated calculators that

help ensure accuracy. Errors are minimized with

automated drafting tasks and built in calculators.

One of the major beneﬁts

of AutoCAD MEP was the

improved coordination

with the architectural

and structural designs.

By using DWG ﬁles from

the extended design

team, we could better

coordinate our design

and signiﬁcantly reduce

the number of design

interferences.

—Jim Paul, PE

Project Principal on Southshore

Medical Center

Kharaﬁ National

AutoCAD MEP software helps to enhance drafting

productivity and allows you to more smoothly integrate

discipline-speciﬁc design and documentation tools.

Coordinate Design Information

With continuous pressure to reduce costs, you

can help reduce requests for information (RFIs)

and costly design changes in the ﬁeld with more

accurate and consistent construction documents

produced with AutoCAD MEP. Design systems using

real-world parts and equipment, which can be used

throughout the fabrication and construction of the

building helping to save time and money.

Collaborate More Eectively

Since most projects require collaboration with

professionals from other disciplines, take advantage

of architectural and structural plans developed

using AutoCAD-based software applications to

better coordinate with your extended team.

AutoCAD MEP software helps you to minimize

interferences prior to construction, allowing greater

coordination and collaboration.

AutoCAD MEP helps to provide increased drafting productivity, better accuracy and design coordination opportunities for

MEP designers and drafters.

Fast. Faster. Fastest workﬂow

Help improve design accuracy by automating repetitive

drafting tasks, reviewing and checking your designs,

and simulating sizing and system balances.

Familiar AutoCAD Environment

AutoCAD MEP is built on AutoCAD®, providing

you with access to all of the commands you expect.

Protect your investment in training whilst accessing

discipline speciﬁc tools at your own pace.

Industry-Based or Task-Based Workspaces

If you work in a multidisciplinary ﬁrm and perform

several dierent design tasks, such as the design

of HVAC and piping systems, workspaces are

particularly useful. You can use them to save user

interface conﬁgurations that are tailored to speciﬁc

tasks. Once the workspaces are created, you can

quickly switch between them as needed.

Schematic Design

More easily create riser diagrams and schematic

plans with enhanced schematic tool palettes

that logically group commonly used tools. The

Properties palette provides easier schematic object

conﬁgurations. Convert existing AutoCAD blocks to

schematic symbols for quick use in schematic design.

Fabrication for MEP Contractors

With smoother integration of fabrication partner

tools into AutoCAD MEP software, MEP designers,

drafters and contractors can leverage their

AutoCAD MEP design for the fabrication of sheet

metal, plumbing, and piping making it easier to

create shop drawings.

Single/Double-Line Design

Automate your worﬂow by creating construction

documents more eciently with single line for

design development and convert automatically to

double line for construction documents. Lay out

mechanical systems in single line with unsized

parts early in the design process, and then use

duct-sizing tools and convert the layout to double

line. Enhanced sizing tools help to increase drafting

productivity when moving from design development

to construction documentation.

Smart Annotation of Objects

Annotate once for all scales. Annotative text

and symbols automatically change for each view

based on the scale. You can annotate objects with

labels that consist of text or block deﬁnitions.

The information in the label comes from object

properties, such as connection size.

Single-line duct design Double-line duct design

Design, decide and draw the system

Assess your vision and enhance your eciency with

purpose-built software for MEP designers and drafters.

Engineering Display Themes

Typically, manual properties of an object—such as

a duct’s friction loss or velocity—are not visible in

a drawing. Display themes let you incorporate such

nongraphical data by using colors, ﬁlls, or hatches

to highlight objects that meet criteria you establish

in a display theme style. For example, check your

HVAC design calculations based on friction loss or

velocity to assess performance for a particular area

or room. Also use the display theme By Pressure

Class to visually show the high, medium, and low

pressure per piping class to more easily identify

potential design ﬂaws.

Synchronized Schedules

Designers and drafters can schedule engineering

system data, calculate values, and use new table

styles to lay out room and analysis schedules.

Schedules are automatically updated as the design

changes, assisting in the reduction of errors. Create

schedules as you lay out your design, and see the

schedule populate automatically, helping to save

time. You can create schedules with varying levels

of detail by deﬁning and attaching sets of properties

to object styles or to individual objects and then

extracting and displaying the data in a schedule table.

Seamless Sections and Elevations

No longer wait until the end of your design process

to create sections and elevations, instead, quickly

create them at any time. You can control the size

and shape of the section you generate and assign

materials to the section for an optimal visual

representation of the sectioned objects.

Drawing Management

The Drawing Management feature formalizes and

automates the processes related to building system

design and documentation. The feature provides

automated tools that aid in the management,

viewing, and construction of your building systems.

When your project ﬁles are managed with this

feature, you have greater consistency in all aspects

of the project, and everyone on the design team has

a centralized project environment for accessing the

most current documents. Powerful linking features

help enable that source ﬁles can be distributed

over many dierent locations on your computer

or on a network, enabling dierent people to work

simultaneously on the same project.

Using AutoCAD MEP with

its powerful visual design

coordination capabilities,

we were able to lay out

these extremely complex

mechanical rooms—

easily—knowing ahead of

time whether there was an

interference.

—Jean Abi Aad

Corporate Engineering Manager

Kharaﬁ National

Choose your Gear

AutoCAD MEP software is an essential element in a

complementary, comprehensive Autodesk engineering

solution for MEP professionals.

AutoCAD

Drive your projects from concept to completion with

the powerful AutoCAD-based documentation tools.

Work more eciently with automation, management,

and editing tools that minimize repetitive tasks and

speed your time to completion. AutoCAD®software

is interoperable with AutoCAD MEP software.

Collaboration

Autodesk Navisworks Manage

Autodesk®Navisworks®software solutions help

enable project design and building professionals to

unite their contributions into a single, synchronized

building information model. By helping enable team

members to more reliably share, combine, review,

and correct detailed 3D design models of any size or

format, Autodesk Navisworks solutions are at the

heart of your design workﬂow.

Autodesk Design Review

Accelerate your reviews with Autodesk®Design

Review software, the free*, integrated, all-digital

way to view, print, mark up, and compare versions of

drawings, maps, and models—without the original

design-creation software. For everyone in the

review chain, sharing and collaborating on designs

has never been this easy.

Design and Documentation

AutoCAD MEP

AutoCAD®MEP software is the AutoCAD®

software for mechanical, electrical, and plumbing

designers and drafters. Creation and coordination

of construction documents is more ecient with

AutoCAD MEP’s more intuitive systems drawing

and design tools.

AutoCAD P&ID

Create, modify, and manage piping and

instrumentation diagrams with AutoCAD P&ID

software. Built on the latest AutoCAD®platform,

AutoCAD P&ID software is easy to use and familiar

to designers and engineers, so design teams can

start immediately with minimal training. Common

tasks performed every day are streamlined and

automated to boost productivity, while component

and line information is easily accessed by designers

as they work.

Autodesk Seek

Powerful, dynamic Autodesk®Seek web service

replaces bulky paper catalogs and static online

directories. Connect architects and engineers with

building product manufacturers. Enhance design

eciency. Streamline project workﬂows by reducing

the hassle of time-consuming searches or the need to

design a product or component for each new project.

Autodesk Buzzsaw

The Autodesk®Buzzsaw®on-demand collaborative

project management solution helps your organization

centralize building design and construction-

related documents, simplify communication, and

make collaboration smoother so you can execute

projects more successfully based on more accurate

information and timely decisions.

Learn More or Purchase

Access specialists worldwide who can provide product expertise, a deep

understanding of your industry, and value that extends beyond your software

purchase. To purchase AutoCAD MEP software contact an Autodesk Premier

Solutions Provider or Autodesk Authorized Reseller. Locate a reseller near you

at www.autodesk.com/reseller.

To learn more about Autodesk MEP engineering solutions, visit

www.autodesk.com/mep.

Autodesk Learning and Education

From instructor-led or self-paced classes to online training or education

resources, Autodesk oers learning solutions to ﬁt your needs. Get expert

guidance at an Autodesk Authorized Training Center (ATC®) site, access learning

tools online or at your local bookstore, and validate your experience with

Autodesk certiﬁcations. Learn more at www.autodesk.com/learning.

Autodesk Services and Support

Accelerate return on investment and optimize productivity with innovative

purchase methods, companion products, consulting services, and

support from Autodesk and Autodesk authorized partners. Designed

to get you up to speed and keep you ahead of the competition, these

tools help you make the most of your software purchase. Learn more at

www.autodesk.com/servicesandsupport.

Autodesk Subscription

Get the beneﬁts of increased productivity, predictable budgeting, and simpliﬁed

license management with Autodesk®Subscription. You get any new upgrades

of your Autodesk software and any incremental product enhancements,

if these are released during your Subscription term. In addition, you get

exclusive license terms available only to Subscription members. A range of

community resources, including web support direct from Autodesk technical

experts, self-paced training, and e-Learning, help extend your skills and make

Autodesk Subscription the best way to optimize your investment. Learn more at

www.autodesk.com/subscription.

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download of this software.

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With AutoCAD MEP we’re able to make changes much

faster, helping to minimize the ﬁnancial impact, and we

can make those changes in almost real time.”

—Tony Bouchard

Senior Vice President and Operations Manager

Consoer Townsend Envirodyne Engineers

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