Autodesk AUTOCAD MEP Brochure page 4

Design, decide and draw the system
Assess your vision and enhance your efficiency 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 different locations on your computer
or on a network, enabling different 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