Overview
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Learn to design the systems—mechanical, electrical, and plumbing—that connect buildings to the outside world with AutoCAD MEP.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- Starting from a template and using the interface
- Setting the environment
- External referencing
- Setting default display configurations
- Adding spaces
- Setting up a power plan
- Adding receptacles
- Adding panels
- Creating power circuits
- Adding wiring
- Adding lighting fixtures
- Setting up a lighting plan
- Adding lighting switches
- Tagging
- Adding cable trays
- Adding conduit
- Creating electrical schedules
- Setting up a ducting plan
- Adding a rooftop unit
- Adding VAV
- Adding air terminals
- Routing ducts
- Adding dampers
- Adding equipment
- Adding waterside equipment
- Adding chilled-water piping
- Adding hot-water piping
- Adding valves
- Tagging HVAC plans
- Creating schedules
- Setting up a plumbing drawing
- Adding plumbing fixtures and floor drains
- Creating plumbing lines
- Adding gas boilers
- Adding strainers and accessories
- Tagging plumbing plans
- Plumbing fixture schedules
- Adding detail components
- Creating isometric riser diagrams
- Adding label curves to pipe
- Creating 30-degree isometric drafts
- Adding oblique text
- Creating viewports and sheets
- Creating a section
- Creating a section line
- Enabling live sections
- Merging linework into a section
- Refreshing and updating the sections
- Working with display configurations
- Configuring representations by object
- Configuring electrical objects
- Configuring HVAC objects
- Creating HVAC systems
- Adding piping systems
- Demolishing objects
- Next steps
