AutoCAD® MEP 2011
AutoCAD® MEP software is the discipline-specific version of AutoCAD® software for mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) designers and drafters. The software’s more intuitive systems and design tools provide greater drafting productivity with the flexibility to make last-minute design changes more quickly and easily. AutoCAD MEP automates tedious drafting tasks, enabling designers and drafters to create more accurate construction documentation, faster. Sharing, collaborating, and coordinating with architects, structural engineers, and contractors is easier using the software’s reliable, widely used DWG™ file format.
Productivity:
- Increase efficiency with tools designed specifically for MEP (mechanical, electrical, plumbing) engineers, designers, and drafters.
- Create MEP design documentation faster.
- Work in a familiar environment based on AutoCAD software, implementing new design tools at your own pace.
Accuracy:
- Streamline the design process with discipline-specific tools based on AutoCAD software.
- Reduce errors by automating drafting tasks and by using built-in manufacturers’ content.
- Use built-in calculators to accurately check your design, sizing, and system balances.
Coordination:
- Reduce requests for information (RFIs) and costly design changes in the field with more accurate and consistent construction documents.
- Share your designs using the industry-leading DWG file format.
AutoCAD Revit® MEP Suite 2011
AutoCAD® Revit® MEP Suite software combines Autodesk® Revit® MEP building information modeling (BIM) software and AutoCAD® MEP software to offer a comprehensive solution for mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) engineers, designers, and drafters. Use Revit MEP software to gain the competitive advantage of BIM by analyzing and optimizing building systems designs before they are built. AutoCAD MEP automates tedious drafting tasks, enabling designers and drafters to create more accurate construction documentation faster. AutoCAD® Revit® MEP Suite helps MEP design teams accelerate better design with tools that promote productivity and support sustainable design and analysis.
Intuitive design and analysis:
- Visualize your MEP (mechanical, electrical, plumbing) designs before they are built, clearly communicating your design intentions.
- Intuitively create MEP systems within the building model using real-world engineering information.
- Predict building performance with analysis based on building information models created in Revit® MEP software.
- Share building information seamlessly with third-party analysis tools using the recognized gbXML exchange format.
Design collaboration:
- Minimize design coordination errors between MEP engineering design teams, architects, structural engineers, and mechanical contractors.
- Reduce design conflicts with real-time clash and interference detection.
IES Sustainability Toolkit
The Sustainability Toolkit enables designers to perform common sustainable design analysis with a single click of a button. Perform quick “what-if” scenarios to establish the most appropriate sustainable and energy efficient approach. The IES Toolkits are exclusive to Autodesk Revit projects uniquely leveraging sustainability into your BIM project.
Heating and Cooling Loads
- Enables architects to establish the effect of a building on peak energy usage and allow mechanical engineers to size HVAC equipment
- Calculations can be performed using either ASHRAE or CIBSE methods.
Dynamic Thermal Simulation
- Identify key sustainable parameters for the building project using dynamic simulation including the carbon footprint, annual energy usage, peak internal conditions and occupant thermal comfort.
Daylight Assessment
- Identify whether the internal daylight illuminance levels throughout the building meet common daylighting criteria.
- Establish whether daylight compensation control is feasible for your building.
Solar Assessment
- Assess the impact of the sun by automatically creating sun-views animations for Winter, Summer and Transitional periods.
IES LEED Toolkit
The LEED Toolkit enables AEC professionals to quickly check their buildings against key performance related LEED credits. Designs can be analyzed right from the early stages with just a click of a few buttons. “What-if” scenarios can be quickly assessed against each other to establish which approaches achieve a pass. Designers can combine these results with those from the Sustainability Toolkit to determine the most appropriate approach. The IES Toolkits are exclusive to Autodesk Revit, uniquely leveraging sustainability and LEED compliance into your BIM project.
LEED Daylighting Credit 8.1
- Produce LEED NC 2.2 daylighting credit 8.1 reports that analyze all regularly habited rooms withing the building.
- Determine what percentage of occupied space achieves the required 2% daylight factor.
