Revit MEP Essentials

Revit in a Nutshell

• Creating systems, Mechanical and Electrical

Introducing Revit as a BIM tool

• What is BIM and what does it mean?
• The benefits of BIM What will BIM deliver?
• Industry drivers
• Introducing Levels of BIM
• Implications on team and workflow; fee and deliverables; contract and insurance issues

UI Tour, Project Navigation and View Creation

• Interactive session introducing the menu and screen layout
• Interrogating the model to extract views
  • Plans, sections and elevations
  • Displaced views, callouts and drafting views
  • 3D isometrics, perspectives and walkthrough movies
• Placement and properties of grids, levels and dimensions
• Introduction to basic
• Revit elements

Element Selection and Manipulation

• Interactive session introducing object selection methods
• Element properties and manipulation
• Instance and Type parameters
• Modify tools, Nodes and Snaps

Visibility Control and Categorisation

• Project-Wide Settings
• View Specific Overrides
• Element Specific Overrides
• Individual Line Overrides

Model Development Methodology

• Is BIM just about 3D?
• Information timeline and overload
• How a project develops from a base template
• The complexity of components
• Controlling graphical display

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

Introduction to Building Elements

• Basic wall definitions, floors, roofs and ceilings
• Sketching rules and 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 – FFL, SSL, Floor Soffit and Ceiling Soffit
• MEP workflow

Introducing Systems

• Setting up the project profile
• Main systems
  • Mechanical, Electrical and Piping
• System browser, connectors and other air systems

Basic Schedules and Legends

• Generation of tabular interrogations of the model
  • Scheduling Components
  • Style schedules
  • Legends

Geometry Formation and In-Place Families

• Interactive session on the creation and manipulation of basic solid and void forms
  • Extrusion
  • Blend
  • Revolve
  • Sweep
  • Swept Blend

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

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

Spaces, Zones, Areas and Volumes

• Differentiate between spaces, zones, areas and volumes
• Defining spaces, bounding elements, tags and schedules
• Computation for areas and volumes
• Using space data outside of Revit
• Colour schemes and legends

2D Draughting and Annotation

• Introducing annotation tools and component categories
• Detail 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 with schedules
• Publishing and document management

Sheet Compilation and Publication

• Project browser organisation –WIP and Publish
• Creating and populating sheets
• Working with 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