I can count greater than three dozen enhancements in the 2012 release of Revit MEP, not beginning to count the platform-based enhancements for all three Revit products. Here are just a few:
Sloped Piping
New tools assist in laying out pipe slopes with automatic calculation, read-out for invert elevations and on-screen tooltips.
Duct and Pipe Placeholders
Placeholder design has always been an early design stage recommendation, but at times can be difficult without the ability for system assignment and other engineering information. With the new placeholder objects early stage layout can focus on design more than fitting choices and other modeling concerns. Placeholders can be tagged and checked for interferences. When ready, a tool to convert placeholders to more detailed objects is available.
Insulation and Lining for Ducts and Pipes
Easily and quickly add insulation and lining to entire runs and utilize interference checking with these elements. Ducts will also adjust sizes when using the sizing tool of duct segments that include lining. Many more features have been added or enhanced such as Revit Server for multi-site, multi-user collaboration, point cloud support for visualizing scans, systems and system browser improvements, parallel pipe and conduit runs, and much, much more.
We’ll be looking at more of the specifics as we get to explore them.
Please join us April 20th, for our Virtual Launch showing many of the Autodesk 2012 product releases. Just click the link provided below. Hope to see you there.
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Tags: 2012, autodesk, BIM, MEP, new features, Revit
2012, BIM, New Features, Revit, Revit MEP | Chris Perry | 
March 22, 2011 5:00 am | 
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This year, I’ve seen the greatest number of additions and improvements across all of the AEC products compared to past releases.
Clash Detection Enhancements
The tool that may be valued the most in Navisworks Manage sees great improvement to support our project review cycle process. No longer do we have to create a separate Excel spreadsheet and update it
manually to track each clash and record its responsible party. We now have an effective and editable HTML report that can be loaded in Excel and shared with the team quickly. Assignments can be made
immediately for each clash while performing the review to populate this spreadsheet report.
Improved Revit Interoperability
The Switchback function now operates with Revit products to allow a more immediate review cycle with in-process review model updates. New construction modeling capability in the revit products will also
come across in Navisworks, as well as, properties of areas and volumes, and linked files.
New Appearance Profiler
This new tool allows custom overrides for color and transparency to better differentiate systems and components in your models.
Multisheet 2D DWF support and Project Browser
2D documentation can be loaded into a new project browser to aid easier navigation and wayfinding.
Navisworks Freedom Adds Measuring Tools
Are you having team members who don’t own Navisworks Manage participate by using Navisworks Freedom? Freedom now adds the capability for dimensioning and gathering area calculations, not just model
navigation and review.
There will be more to come as we explore other new features and enhancements with this great review and management tool.
Please join us April 20th, for our Virtual Launch showing many of the Autodesk 2012 product releases. Just click the link provided below. Hope to see you there.
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This release year’s software enhancements available to Subscription customers center around integration and communication. The offering includes:
- New avatars
- Appearance profiler add-in
- Extended support for existing applications
- New file format support
Select from an extended range of third-person avatars to better explore project models and communicate stakeholder perspectives.
New Avatars
Represent various roles such as safety professionals, construction workers and building inhabitants.
Override the appearance of multiple objects within the model based on user-defined classifications.
In fewer clicks than before, we can color-code objects by property values such as systems and even sub-components of those systems to clarify related objects or groupings.
Keep workflows current with support for existing applications:
- Primavera P6 v7
- Google™ SketchUp™ v7
- Autodesk® Inventor® products
And improve object quality and access to property information through direct file support with PTC’s Pro/ENGINEER® parametric file format.
Pro/E Support
Subscription customers for Navisworks Manage & Simulate, the Education Suites, and the Factory Design and Plant Design Suites can begin taking advantage of this offering today.
These are new new tool extensions for Revit Structure that make an impact.
Contents of the Advantage pack includes:
- Autodesk Revit Server Extension
- For collaboration within geographically dispersed teams, and design productivity.
- Allows a single project team over a distributed wide area network (WAN) to collaborate with higher performance and efficiency
- Enables a seamlessly integrated collection of Revit central models on a single server that team members can access from local servers that update to/from the central server.
- Easily manage products on Revit central server using the web-based Revit Server Administrator tools
- Benefit from built-in redundancy in case of WAN connectivity loss.
- Provides tools for early stage conceptual energy studies.
- Automatically rationalize concept models into energy models for analysis.
- Evaluate design options side-by-side based on reports that compare energy use, lifecycle costs, and breakdowns of consumption and loads.
- Access a web based high-resolution global climate data set that contains more than 1.5 million weather data sets from Revit Architecture
- Revit Extensions for Autodesk Revit Structure 2011 In addition to your current list of Revit Structure 2011 extensions:
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- Floor vibration analysis—Assess vibration characteristics to help meet requirements of the AISC Design Guide 11.
- Gravity column analysis—Design steel columns based on the AISC 360-05 design code.
- SDNF import/export—Import or export SDNF file format.
- As well, previous extensions like the Text Generator are also available.
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- Subscription customers can download their Subscription Advantage Pack from within their product through the Information Center. Click on the key icon to open the Subscription Center menu and select Susbcription Advantage Pack from the “Subscription Only Downloads” section.
- Or subscription customers can download the Subscription Advantage Pack from Subscription Center at www.autodesk.com/subscriptionlogin
- Learn More, View Videos
www.autodesk.com/advantagepack-revitarchitecture
www.autodesk.com/downloadingadvantagepacks
- Create a Subscription Center Account
www.autodesk.com/selfregister
Advantage pack for Revit Architecture includes:
- Autodesk Revit Server Extension
- For collaboration within geographically dispersed teams, and design productivity.
- Allows a single project team over a distributed wide area network (WAN) to collaborate with higher performance and efficiency
- Enables a seamlessly integrated collection of Revit central models on a single server that team members can access from local servers that update to/from the central server.
- Easily manage products on Revit central server using the web-based Revit Server Administrator tools
- Benefit from built-in redundancy in case of WAN connectivity loss.
- Provides tools for early stage conceptual energy studies.
- Automatically rationalize concept models into energy models for analysis.
- Evaluate design options side-by-side based on reports that compare energy use, lifecycle costs, and breakdowns of consumption and loads.
- Access a web based high-resolution global climate data set that contains more than 1.5 million weather data sets from Revit Architecture.Autodesk Revit Conceptual Energy Analysis
- Revit Extensions for Autodesk Revit Architecture 2011; In addition to your current list of Revit Architecture 2011 extensions:
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- Frame Generator Extension – More rapidly define and generate simple 3D frame models. The resulting structural elements (such as columns, beams, bracing, and purlins) are created from general frame and geometric parameters of the structure.
- Extensions Engine – Use this platform to host extensions in Autodesk® Revit® Architecture 2011 software.
- How to get:
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- Subscription customers can download their Subscription Advantage Pack from within their product through the Information Center. Click on the key icon to open the Subscription Center menu and select Susbcription Advantage Pack from the “Subscription Only Downloads” section.
- Or subscription customers can download the Subscription Advantage Pack from Subscription Center at www.autodesk.com/subscriptionlogin
- Learn More, View Videos
www.autodesk.com/advantagepack-revitarchitecture
www.autodesk.com/downloadingadvantagepacks
- Create a Subscription Center Account
www.autodesk.com/selfregister
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