The Revit MEP Essential training course is intended to introduce students to the software’s user interface and the basic HVAC, electrical, and piping/plumbing components that make Revit MEP a powerful and flexible engineering modeling tool. The objective is to familiarize students with the tools necessary to create, document, and print the parametric model. The examples and practices are designed to take you through the basics of a full Revit MEP project, from linking in an architectural model to construction documents.
Learning Objectives
The primary objective of this course is to teach students the concept of building information modeling and introduce the tools for parametric engineering design and documentation using Revit MEP. After completing this course, students will be able to:
Understand Autodesk® Revit® MEP, its interface, including viewing, drawing, and editing commands
Work with linked architectural files
Create and modify views, understand Revit MEP systems in general
Create spaces and zones, analyze heating and cooling loads
Work with HVAC module to add air terminals, mechanical equipment, and create HVAC systems
Work with the Piping module to add mechanical equipment as well as creating hydronic piping systems
Work with fire protection systems
Work with fixtures, piping systems and analysis tools in the Plumbing module
Work with components, circuits, cable tray, and conduits in the Electrical module
Create and annotate construction documents
Pre-Requisites
Completed Revit Architecture Essential and Advance
Course Content
Day 1
Revit in a Nutshell
• Interactive exercise on creating and documenting a basic building
Introduction to the Principles of BIM
• Simple Truths
• Behind the hype
• The benefits of BIM
• What will BIM deliver
UI Tour, Project Navigation and View Creation
• Introducing the menu and screen layout
• Interrogating the model to extract views
• Placement and properties of grids and levels
• Introduction to basic Revit elements
Element Selection and Manipulation
• Object selection and methods
• Element properties
• Instance and type parameters
• Nodes and snaps
Visibility Control and Categorisation
• Project-wide settings
• View specific overrides
• Element specific overrides
• Individual line overrides
• Exercise on modifying element visibility
Model Development Methodology
• Rationalised model construction
• Graded component libraries
• Data-rich / graphics light
• Controlling 3D geometry and 2D linework
Establishing a Project
• Project units – Common, HVAC, Electrical and Piping
• MEP settings, symbols and schematic design
• Project commencement and collaboration
• Linking CAD and Revit Architecture
• Coordination review
Day 2
Introduction to Building Elements
• Basic wall definitions, floors, roofs and ceilings
• Sketching rules
• Relating slabs to walls and supports
• Slab slopes, roof design and ceiling definition
• System family editing
• Column and beam placement
Equipment, Fixtures and Fittings
• Family terminology
• Component placement
• Selecting the correct level
• MEP workflow
Introducing Systems
• Setting up the project profile
• Main systems
• System browser, connectors and other air systems
Basic Schedules and Legends
• Interactive session on the generation of tabular interrogations of the model
Geometry Formation and In-Place Families
• Interactive session on the creation and manipulation of basic solid and void forms
Mechanical Systems
• Mechanical settings
• Duct types and fittings
• Creating duct and piping systems
• Insulating and lining ductwork
• Plant and equipment
• Mechanical pipework, flanges and fittings
Day 3
Electrical Systems and Circuits
• Equipment, devices and fixtures
• Wiring, cable tray and conduit modelling
• Circuits and switch systems
Plumbing Systems
• Plumbing settings
• Plumbing fixtures
• Creating plumbing systems
• Creating sanitary systems
• Domestic hot and cold water systems
• System browser
Rooms, Areas, Spaces and Volumes
• Room definition and bounding elements
• Space type settings and computation for areas and volumes
• Zones and control systems
• Room and space calculations, scheduling and use of the data
2D Draughting and Annotation
• Introducing annotation tools and component categories
• Details component libraries
• Repeating details
• Lines and arcs
• Text, tags and keynotes
Sheet Compilation and Publication
• Project browser organisation – WIP and Publish
• Creating and populating sheets
• Working and schedules
• Publishing and document management
Basic Subdivision and Collaboration
• Introducing a BIM Strategy document
• Model management
• Project team collaboration techniques
• Transmittal and model issue protocols
• Basics of large model sub-division
Introduction to the Principles of Family Editing
• The basic process
• 10 stages for trouble free family creation
Note: The suggested course duration is a guideline. Course topics and duration may be modified by the instructor based upon the knowledge and skill level of the course participants.
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