Autodesk Revit MEP

 

Overview

Autodesk® Revit® MEP software is the building information modelling (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 visualise building systems accurately before they are built. The software’s built-in analysis capabilities help 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 co-ordinated, minimises errors and enhances collaboration among engineering and architecture teams.

Features 

Duct and Pipe Sizing/Pressure Calculations
Built-in calculators in Autodesk® Revit® MEP software make it possible to perform sizing and pressure loss calculations according to industry-standard 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. Use the friction, velocity, static regain, or equal friction sizing method for duct sizing. Use the velocity or friction method for pipe sizing.

Duct and Pipe System Modelling
Intuitive layout tools enable easy model modifications. Autodesk Revit MEP automatically updates your model views and sheets, helping to maintain document and project consistency. Create HVAC systems with mechanical functionality, provide 3D modelling for ductwork and piping. Easily modify the model by dragging design elements on the screen in almost any view. Modelling 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, co-ordinated designs and documents at all times.

HVAC/Electrical Design
Communicate design intent visually with room colour-fill plans. With colour schemes, you no longer have to spend time deciphering spreadsheets and using coloured pencils on printed plans.

All revisions and alterations to colour-fill plans are updated automatically across your model. Create any number of schemes, and maintain better consistency for the duration of your project. Three-dimensional modelling for ductwork and piping enables you to create HVAC systems that can be clearly shown using colour schemes for design airflow, actual airflow, mechanical zones, and more. Create electrical colour schemes for power loads, lighting per area, and more.

System Inspector (Critical Path)
Quickly identify and adjust high pressure-loss areas in your system, enhancing economy and efficiency. Interactively modify fittings, shape, or configuration, and instantly see the updated static pressure loss and changes to flow properties. Revit MEP displays the critical flow path for branches, main trunks, or entire systems.

Auto-Route Duct
Easily route and constrain complex duct runs between any two points. Choose from multiple path options to determine the best path for your design. Connection preferences and fitting selections are used to determine the routing path. Automatic routing alleviates tedious layout tasks and allows time for more detailed design and analysis. You also have the ability to modify any of the suggested paths to facilitate your design layout intent.

Lighting Calculations
Zonal cavity estimation automatically calculates room lighting levels. Set room surface reflectivity values, attach industry-standard Illuminating Engineering Society data files, and define workplane heights for automatic calculation of average illumination.

Voltage Drops and Derating Factors
Identify voltage drops and apply derating factors as you design, enhancing your design data with crucial engineering information.

Sloped Pipe and Invert Elevations
Model sloped piping for all plumbing systems according to industry code. Easily define the rise over run, and lay out your plumbing design. Calculation is automatic and slope propagation is easy when applying a slope to a run of multiple pipe selections through fittings. Tag invert elevations anywhere along the pipe run, minimising guesswork and manual calculations typical of sloped pipe.

Parametric Components
Parametric Components in Autodesk Revit MEP offer open, graphical systems for design thinking and precisely detailed design intent. Use Parametric Components for your most elaborate mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineering assemblies, with no need for programming languages or software coding.

Construction Documentation
Automatically generate plan, section, elevation, detail, and schedule views that precisely reflect design information. Synchronised model views from a common database enable more consistent, co-ordinated change management. Benefit from more accurate, co-ordinated construction documents that building information modelling (BIM) provides for the electrical, plumbing, and mechanical design team.

Automatic Sheet Drawing References
Sections, elevations, and call-out references are more accurate, while all data, graphics, details, schedules, drawings, and sheets in the drawing set are current and better co-ordinated. No longer spend hours co-ordinating sheet sets: Revit MEP automates the process.

System Browser
Easily perform model continuity checks on defined system types, quickly see unbalanced loads, and identify orphaned elements not connected to systems. Autodesk Revit MEP can help to ensure that all MEP system elements are fully connected and contributing to system load requirements for more accurate sizing. Autodesk Revit MEP gives engineers more confidence that the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems designs are complete.

DWG/DWF/DXF/DGN Support
Native support for DWG, DWF™, DXF™, and DGN formats help ensure compatible data exchange.

Worksharing
Autodesk Revit MEP worksharing distributes the power of the parametric modelling environment across the project team. Worksharing provides a complete range of collaboration modes, from entirely on-the-fly, simultaneous access to the shared model, through the formal division of the project into discrete shared units, to complete separation of project elements or systems into individually managed linked models. Design teams can effectively collaborate and interact based on workflow and project requirements through worksharing.

Rendering
Autodesk Revit MEP enables clients to see the building systems design before it is built through rendered photorealistic images. Autodesk Revit MEP renders 3D project views with various effects, such as lights, plants, decals, and people. Add sunlight to an interior scene of the model for radiosity solutions. Select families with transparent materials as daylight sources.

Publish to Autodesk Buzzsaw
The ability to publish to the Autodesk® Buzzsaw®on-demand collaborative project management solution enables team members to seamlessly upload Autodesk Revit MEP files to a predetermined Buzzsaw project site. With the addition of default template assignments, you can assign properties to a view and set those properties back to their original state before project publication or printing.

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

Import/Export ACIS Solids with AutoCAD-Based Applications
Revit-based products can read and write ACIS® solids, enabling easy import and export between Autodesk Revit MEP models and other AutoCAD®-based architectural or engineering applications. Import or link 3D solid geometry into AutoCAD® Architecture or AutoCAD® MEP software.

Application Programming Interface
A rich programming environment, the Autodesk Revit® API facilitates and extends Autodesk Revit functionality throughout the building industry.