AutoCAD MEP Essential Training
3h 12mBeginner2014-07-18
Authors
Eric Wing
Director of BIM Services at C&S Companies
Course details
AutoCAD MEP helps you build the systems—mechanical, electrical, and plumbing—that connect buildings to the outside world. This course will help you draft, design, and document these systems using MEP's powerful toolset. Author Eric Wing touches on project setup, as well as external referencing and display configurations, before diving into individual modeling scenarios. In one chapter, he'll show how to create electrical power plans and lighting plans with receptacles and lighting fixtures. In the next, it's a mechanical plan, with rooftop units, VAV boxes, ducts, and diffusers. Last, you'll work on a plumbing plan and system. Then he ties the drawings together with smart tags and schedules, and creates section and elevation versions of your plans. Dive in now and learn to eliminate tedious drawing tasks while creating more accurate documentation with MEP.
Learning objectives
Setting up a power plan
Creating power circuits
Adding wiring and lighting fixtures
Setting up a ducting plan
Routing ducts
Creating plumbing lines
Adding gas boilers
Adding detail components
Creating viewports, sheets, sections, and elevations
Configuring electrical and HVAC objects
Creating HVAC systems
Learning objectives
Setting up a power plan
Creating power circuits
Adding wiring and lighting fixtures
Setting up a ducting plan
Routing ducts
Creating plumbing lines
Adding gas boilers
Adding detail components
Creating viewports, sheets, sections, and elevations
Configuring electrical and HVAC objects
Creating HVAC systems
Skills covered
AutoCAD MEPMEPAutodeskEssential TrainingAEC
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Welcome
- 02 - Using the exercise files
1. Referencing Other Trades, and Project Setup
- 03 - Starting from a template and using the interface
- 04 - Setting the environment
- 05 - External referencing
- 06 - Setting default display configurations
- 07 - Adding spaces
2. Electrical
- 08 - Setting up a power plan
- 09 - Adding receptacles
- 10 - Adding panels
- 11 - Creating power circuits
- 12 - Adding wiring
- 13 - Adding lighting fixtures
- 14 - Setting up a lighting plan
- 15 - Adding lighting switches
- 16 - Tagging
- 17 - Adding cable trays
- 18 - Adding conduit
- 19 - Creating electrical schedules
3. HVAC
- 20 - Setting up a ducting plan
- 21 - Adding a rooftop unit
- 22 - Adding VAV
- 23 - Adding air terminals
- 24 - Routing ducts
- 25 - Adding dampers
- 26 - Adding equipment
- 27 - Adding waterside equipment
- 28 - Adding chilled-water piping
- 29 - Adding hot-water piping
- 30 - Adding valves
- 31 - Tagging HVAC plans
- 32 - Creating schedules
4. Plumbing
- 33 - Setting up a plumbing drawing
- 34 - Adding plumbing fixtures and floor drains
- 35 - Creating plumbing lines
- 36 - Adding gas boilers
- 37 - Adding strainers and accessories
- 38 - Tagging plumbing plans
- 39 - Plumbing fixture schedules
5. Detailing
- 40 - Adding detail components
- 41 - Creating isometric riser diagrams
- 42 - Adding label curves to pipe
- 43 - Creating 30-degree isometric drafts
- 44 - Adding oblique text
- 45 - Creating viewports and sheets
6. Sections and Elevations
- 46 - Creating a section
- 47 - Creating a section line
- 48 - Enabling live sections
- 49 - Merging linework into a section
- 50 - Refreshing and updating the sections
7. Display Configuration and Style Manager
- 51 - Working with display configurations
- 52 - Configuring representations by object
- 53 - Configuring electrical objects
- 54 - Configuring HVAC objects
8. Systems
- 55 - Creating HVAC systems
- 56 - Adding piping systems
- 57 - Demolishing objects
Conclusion
- 58 - Next steps