Saturday, September 2, 2017

Mechanical Focused Intro of MEPPP Demo with Blake Guither

The new MEP Productivity Pack (MEPPP) has a ton of new features to support MEP design and documentation. Blake Guither, mechanical engineer at Gausman and Moore, gives us an overview of this new package from the mechanical point of view in the YouTube video linked below. Our updated electrical overview video is forthcoming.

There is so much introductory material, this is a one hour presentation! This is in addition to all the short, bite-sized videos, I mentioned last week by CTC's Shawn ZirbesMEPPP Intro Videos.

Just a few highlights highlights:

  • An aggressive push for standardized industry shared parameters with proper data types, with the ability to use around the world (e.g. parameter naming does not contain units).
  • Articulated Cartesian Arm to control connector locations - not just on one face, but anywhere on the unit.
  • Message Center - a common parameter providing user feedback on design decisions and warnings (see images below).
  • Sophisticated auto-sizing content with 'engineering judgement' overrides
    • Air Terminals
    • VAVs
    • And more...
  • Hundreds of well organized schedules
  • A super family to start any new mechanical families
  • Plumbing groups to develop accurate models and maintain fixture units, flows, including vents - plus tags as shown in the image top-right
The next two images show an example of the Message Center (MC) functionality. When the floor drain matches a size in the associated performance table, the MC reports "Selection Valid". But, if set to an invalid value, the MC reports "Selection Not Valid" and changes the graphic to a frowning face!



There are several "design check" schedules placed in the Revit project Starting View to ensure important project-wide settings.

Check of the intro video on YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI31CLIbQLE&feature=em-subs_digest


This package, along with the extensive user's guide and sample project, will allow many to go from using Revit as a drafting tool, to using it as a design tool. Not every firm has the time or resources to develop an in-house equivalent; this package was developed by three companies, and you don't want to know how much time went into it:)

Too much fun!