Revit 2017 Essential Training: MEP (Imperial)

Learn about MEP design. Explore four major trades of MEP engineering: mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and fire protection by reviewing examples imperial units, (inches and feet).

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know before watching this course
• Using the exercise files

1. Starting a Revit Project

• Starting a project using Revit templates
• Touring the user interface
• Linking other models
• Copying levels and setting up monitoring
• Creating floor plans
• Viewing the models

2. Revit Electrical

• Adding receptacles
• Adding panels
• Creating spaces
• Creating a circuit
• Adding lighting fixtures
• Adding switches
• Creating a lighting circuit
• Creating a switching circuit
• Creating and labeling a wiring plan
• Adding conduit
• Creating conduit types
• Adding cable tray
• Challenge: Electrical
• Solution: Electrical

3. Revit Mechanical

• Starting a mechanical project
• Adding mechanical equipment
• Adding air terminals
• Adding a supply duct
• Adding a return duct
• Adding duct accessories and fittings
• Sizing a duct
• Tagging a duct
• Adding zones and heating and cooling loads
• Challenge: Mechanical
• Solution: Mechanical

4. Revit Plumbing

• Creating a plumbing view
• Adding fixtures and domestic supply piping
• Adding sanitary sloped piping
• Adding equipment
• Adding additional piping
• Creating a system
• Adding pipe accessories
• Tagging items
• Looking at the System Browser

5. Revit Fire Protection

• Creating a sprinkler view
• Adding sprinklers
• Creating sprinkler pipe types
• Modeling mains
• Modeling branch lines
• Adding pipe accessories
• Tagging items
• Adding specialty items
• Creating a fire alarm circuit
• Creating a fire alarm view

6. Revit Worlkflow

• Creating detail views
• Importing CAD
• Importing details
• Creating sheets
• Printing sheets
• Creating schedules
• Using phasing
• Working with text
• Working with dimensions
• Looking at mechanical settings
• Simple modify techniques
• Making and controlling revisions

7. Fabrication Parts

• Fabrication settings
• Designing and optimizing to fabrication
• Modeling fabrication parts
• Adding hangers
• Tagging
• Fabrication schedules

Conclusion

• Next steps