I attached airflow information to air terminals and then was able to calculate and draw the correct ductwork automatically based on the terminals to be fed.
This is an excellent calculation tool. I created the 3D ductwork by drawing in 2D on plan and entering elevations. I really liked working this way! A useful new feature is the capacity to draw sloped ductwork or pipework easily by entering an angle or elevation.
Schedule tags are drawn which link building objects with a schedule table. It would be better if the schedule table could be directly editable by double-clicking. It was a little awkward to customise the tables to give them a pleasing appearance. I found it cumbersome to select the data I wanted to display. I was also frustrated that the sort feature for the table columns sorted numbered tags in the sequence 1,10,11,12…2,20,21,22…instead of 1,2,3…10,11,12…! No doubt improvements will be made in the future.
If all else fails it is possible to export the data to Microsoft Excel! An effort has been made to simplify creating construction documents. It is possible to quickly prepare a set of sheets and publish them to dwf or for printing. I found that generally speaking the set up was straightforward. I can see this feature saving quite a bit of time. The concept of projects and a project navigator is very helpful. Views, sheets constructs and other information such as how many floors there are in the building, are kept together in an orderly fashion.
As Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing or Architectural objects are created they are associated with a predetermined layer structure. The layer discipline is automatic. As a component or piece of equipment is drawn it is placed in the appropriate layer.
This layer discipline is effortless. I like this feature. The downside is that layer isolate no longer works as objects make use of several layers and so it is not possible to click on an object and just isolate its layer. Layers are organised according to floor level in the three-dimensional drawing.
This makes it quick to produce drawing sheets that display just the information you need. Unfortunately the program crashed several times when loading the project navigator! The select similar feature works well. It saves selecting all similar items individually e. Annotation scales for text are improved. It is now possible to position text in different locations for different annotation scales!
This is helpful as text displayed at say may be positioned well away from other objects. Because we want to add a beveled tap, i. Because we have set beveled tap as the preferred takeoff fitting, when select takeoff as the branch fitting at the properties pane, when we extend the branch duct to snap to the main branch, the beveled tap fitting will appear automatically. If you have trouble snapping to the main duct, go to snap setting and check important snap preferences such as nearest or perpendicular.
The duct fitting will be added automatically, provided you manage to snap your branch duct to your main duct exactly at the edge or center. Note: Snap settings are sometimes tuned off. Snapping can also be affected by elevation of adjoining ducts. Remember to set them to the same level, otherwise a duct riser will be automatically included to enable connection.
Difference of leveling can also be reflected in the view of the drawing, where ducts with higher elevation appears on top and the lower ones appears behind and with faded, dotted lines.
To change the direction of the bevel, select the beveled tap and click on the small arrow head. The direction of the bevel can be toggled repeatedly. All duct sizes should automatically appear. To add multiple labels faster, do it the other way round. When the label's preview appears, click on where we want the label to be at. To select the style of label or the parameter that we want to label , set the style in the properties pane while selecting the label or before placing the label.
To replace fittings, there is no need to delete and reconstruct the involved duct segments. Similar fittings are encouraged to be selected for this function because there might be compatibility issues replacing fittings from different systems or types.
If you have finished constructing your duct only to realise you need to make transitions in between a segment, there is a way where you do not need to delete and redraw the segment. The method is to split the duct segment into 2 or multiple segments and then change the size for each of the segment as desired.
This gap will separate our duct segment into 2, each of which can be adjusted to individual sizes or properties. After setting, join them back together. One of the challenges that many people face is to add a rectangular dovetail Wye to our ducting system. However, it is not as complicated as you think it will be, but can be done, in fact, within minutes of time.
The Asymmetric Dovetail Wye allows 3 different inputs of duct opening, whereas Symmetrical ones can only have equal sized openings to duct connectors. Go to where you want to add the fitting to, click on a point in the duct and orient it to where it is supposed to, and then click for a second time to add the fitting in. Fittings or duct segments from different height levels may not be able to join properly.
By Simkaisheng Follow. Unfortunatey, this is not available in the toolsets my AutoCAD program currently has. It appears that there should be more default parts rather than just five, and I would prefer not to just design a bunch of custom parts when I am just learning. Go to Solution. Solved by Keith. That particular part is available in the imperial out of the box catalog. It is not really a tool but a mvpart inside of a catalog of mvparts.
If you type mvpartadd at the command line it should bring up an interface to select and insert parts. Inside of the Diffusers folder you will find the part that you are looking for. You ask how do you import a tool into autocad mep. As for the other aspect of the question.
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