Autodesk On-Demand: Revit MEP Comprehensive

Fundamentals for MEP • Introduction to the Autodesk Revit software, including navigating the Revit interface. • Starting an MEP project based on a linked architectural model and creating levels and grids as datum elements for the model. • Understanding the project browser and working with views. • Understanding Revit families and components. • Working with the basic sketching and modifying tools. • Copying and monitoring elements and coordinating linked models. • Creating spaces so that you can analyze heating and cooling loads. • Connecting and testing basic systems. • Creating pipe systems with plumbing fixtures and pipes. • Creating duct systems with air terminals, mechanical equipment, and ducts. • Creating advanced HVAC and plumbing systems with automatic duct and piping layouts. • Creating electrical circuits with electrical equipment, devices, and light fixtures and adding cable trays and conduits. • Setting up sheets, and placing and modifying views on sheets. • Working with dimensions, text, annotations, and legends. • Adding tags and working with schedules. • Setting up detail views and adding detail components. Fundamentals for Project Managers • Understanding the purpose of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and how it is applied in Revit. • Navigating the Revit workspace and interface. • Working with the basic modifying and modeling tools. • Troubleshooting elements in projects. • Viewing models using plans, elevations, sections, and 3D views. • Putting together construction documents by adding views to sheets that can then be printed. • Exporting files to CAD formats and DXF (the Autodesk® Design Review software). • Working with schedules. • Linking and importing CAD files and Revit models into projects. BIM Management: Template and Family Creation • Create custom templates with annotation styles, title blocks, and custom element types. • Create schedules, including material takeoff schedules with formulas. • Create custom wall, roof, and floor types, as well as MEP system families. • Set up a component family file with a parametric framework. • Create family geometry. • Create family types. • Modify the visibility of components and incorporate additional family items such as controls, MEP connectors, and nested components. • Create specific families, including in-place families, profiles, annotations, and parameters. Collaboration Tools • Set up project phasing. • Use groups. • Create and display a variety of design options. • Link Autodesk Revit files. • Use multi-discipline coordination, including Copy/Monitor and Coordination Review. • Import and export CAD and raster files, including exporting Revit models for energy analysis. • Understand, use, and set up worksharing in a server-based environment. Navisworks: Fundamentals • Understanding the purpose of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and how it is applied in the Autodesk Navisworks software. • Navigating the Autodesk Navisworks workspace and interface. • Consolidating models from different software and properly aligning them to create a single Navisworks model. • Saving and retrieving views and sectioning a model. • Using basic viewing and investigation tools to locate, review, and measure items. • Adding tags and comments to model components. • Reviewing a model for clashes. • Performing quantification calculations and material takeoffs. • Animating and writing scripts to interact with the model. • Creating and animating a construction timeline. • Creating photorealistic images. _ Note: The course outline above is based on the 2025 version of the Autodesk software. Topics may differ slightly if using an earlier version of the software.