Create piping and plumbing layouts, pipe system labeling along with the ability to convert single line schematics into double line pipe layouts quickly.

 

Value to you is increased productivity and reduced drafting time enabling you to produce a set of accurate construction documents quicker.

 

With traditional CAD, keeping up with design changes can be a challenge. Daily revisions are a fact of life in most design projects, but when making changes becomes a manual process significant time is lost and the risk for errors increases. With MEP, keeping up with design changes is easy – change the size of a pipe and the entire run automatically resizes; drag the piping to a new location and the system will stretch and update to fit.

 

Value to you is being able to make changes fast while ensuring those changes are reflected throughout an entire set of construction documents.

 

With traditional CAD, much of the time invested in producing a set of construction documents is spent on simple annotation tasks – such as adding labels. These tasks can be time consuming and error-prone. With MEP, automated labeling tools are provided that streamline the annotating of construction documents. Automatically place labels as you lay out your system designs. Make changes to those designs and watch the labels update right before your eyes.

 

Value to you is being able to reduce many of those manual drafting tasks while ensuring the accuracy of your construction documents.

 

In traditional CAD, section and elevation views can be more time-consuming to create – sketching from scratch based on the plan views of your designs, and then manually verifying and updating when design changes are made. In MEP section and elevation views are generated instantly. With a few simple steps to identify the view you want to section and the plane that cuts through the design, views are created directly from the Autodesk MEP design. And when design changes happen, a simple refresh updates the views automatically.

 

Value to you is significantly reduced time spent developing multiple views of your designs, while ensuring complete co-ordination and design accuracy.

 

With traditional CAD, co-ordination between disciplines results from visually checking multiple views of your designs, which is a manual process and can be time-consuming. With MEP co-ordination across your entire project is automated. By leveraging the design created in Building Systems, you can take advantage of the automated collision detection tool, quickly identifying conflicts in your designs before construction begins.

 

Value to you is that you can make faster design decisions, produce more accurate construction documents, and avoid time-consuming rework later in the project.

 

In tradition CAD, creating schedules can be a time-consuming task. Even with customised tables and data extraction capabilities, to keep your schedules accurate across your entire project, much of the process is still manual. In MEP you produce schedules that are directly linked to your design. As your design changes, the schedules are automatically updated. And since schedules can include calculated values, even detailed design information, such as total pipe length requirements, can be captured in the schedules or extracted for use in other applications, such as Microsoft® Excel.

 

Value to you is significantly reducing time spent producing schedules and helping ensure schedule accuracy even when changes are made late in the project.

 

With traditional CAD drawings, the design information required to perform engineering calculations is typically extracted manually. The design drawings are referenced and the design data is transcribed as needed. With MEP, you can work seamlessly with your design layouts to perform engineering calculations. Built-in sizing calculators and the support of multiple file formats, such as gbXML, enable you to directly access the rich engineering data
stored on the parts in your design layouts. Plus, with bi-directional capabilities you can automatically update your design layouts based on the results of the calculations.

 

Value to you is minimising errors and saving time by eliminating the need to manually transfer most design information.