 MEP
2009
The AutoCAD solution for mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineering.
AutoCAD® MEP software is the version of AutoCAD® software for mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) designers. Creating and sharing construction documents is more efficient with the system’s intuitive system drawing and design tools. Together with the built-in designs calculators, these tools help increase accuracy and accelerate design. The familiar environment offers users the opportunity for immediate productivity gains with the flexibility to learn additional features at their own pace. The industry-leading DWGG™ file format makes it easy to share and communicate designs with architects and structural design professionals. AutoCAD MEP software provides immediate productivity opportunities for MEP professionals familiar with AutoCAD software.
Stand Out and Stay Competitive with the AutoCAD Solution
for MEP Engineers
AutoCAD® MEP software is the version of AutoCAD® software
designed specifically for mechanical, electrical, and plumbing
professionals facing an increasingly competitive environment.
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Increased Productivity
In a familiar and proven AutoCAD environment,
mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineers,
designers, and drafters can quickly create design
documentation with tools developed specifically for
them. AutoCAD MEP software provides enhanced
drafting and layout tools for improved productivity.
Improved Accuracy
Streamline your design process with discipline-
specific, AutoCAD-based tools. Verify designs,
sizing, and system balances with integrated
calculators. Minimize errors by automating drafting
tasks and using built-in manufacturers’ content.
Smooth Coordination
Reduce requests for information and costly
design changes in the field with more accurate and
consistent construction documents. Seamlessly
share your designs with project architects and
structural engineers using the industry-leading
DWG™ file format.
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Autodesk Design Review
Directly publish to DWF™ format from AutoCAD
MEP for an easy and secure way to distribute and
share designs or construction documentation. The
free* Autodesk® Design Review application gives
your project team an easy way to view, print, mark
up, and measure changes to drawings without the
original design creation software. To learn more,
visit www.autodesk.com/designreview.
Complete Solution
Import legacy drawings, share your work, and
extend your solution with AutoCAD® Raster
Design software; DWF technology; and Autodesk®
NavisWorks® Review, Autodesk® NavisWorks®
Simulate, and Autodesk® NavisWorks® Manage
software. Raster Design augments the power
of your AutoCAD-based software to help
perform raster drawing cleanup, editing and
manipulation, raster-to-vector conversion, and
image processing. NavisWorks applications
extend the capabilities of AutoCAD MEP with
visualization and clash detection capabilities.
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Prepare, Present, Perform
With specific MEP design and layout tools, AutoCAD MEP
software can increase productivity of the design process
through automated production of construction documentation. |
Mechanical, electrical and plumbing design
teams need to optimize efficiency, accuracy,
and coordination to deliver their building
system designs and meet client expectations.
AutoCAD MEP software enables engineers,
designers, and drafters to deliver everything
from preliminary designs to construction
documentation with unparalleled efficiency.
Affiliated Engineers, Inc.
Affiliated Engineers, Inc. (AEI) designs and creates
high-performance, technically complex buildings.
The company relies on and takes pride in the
accuracy and coordination of its documentation,
a process that is significantly aided by AEI’s use
of AutoCAD MEP software.
On projects like the University of Chicago’s
142,000-square-foot Comer Children’s Hospital
Pediatric Emergency Department addition,
AutoCAD MEP has helped AEI overcome major
design challenges, including the need to isolate
the newly expanded Emergency Department from
adjoining spaces, so as to prevent the spread |
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“We had a dedicated supply and return for all offices
and exam rooms,” explains Blythe Marlow, an AEI
mechanical engineer. “As a result, we had multiple
exhaust risers branching out to multiple spaces
within the first floor and lower level. AutoCAD MEP
helped us integrate pipe and duct routing as we
started extending into the exam rooms and trauma
spaces. This process was very successful.”
AutoCAD MEP also helped AEI engineers
communicate more effectively with the university’s
project manager. “We were able to walk him
through critical pinch points and room layouts,”
says Marlow. “We cut virtual sections in real time,
walked him through the building, and then got
immediate feedback.”
“AEI has always been an engineering firm that takes
pride in producing highly coordinated documents,”
says Marlow. “AutoCAD MEP has helped us do
that faster. Now when I draw a piece of ductwork
or a pipe or a light, I get real-time feedback and
immediately know whether that coordination fits.”
Based on the success of the Comer Children’s
Hospital project, AEI anticipates nothing but
good things to come from AutoCAD MEP. |
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AutoCAD MEP can provide
virtually immediate
productivity for
mechanical, electrical,
and plumbing (MEP)
professionals familiar with
AutoCAD. Users can also
benefit from the flexibility
to learn additional features
at their own pace.
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