AutoCAD Revit MEP Suite

White Papers

Learn more about the technical aspects AutoCAD® MEP and Revit® MEP software. These white papers provide technical information that can help you get the most out of AutoCAD® Revit® MEP Suite software.

AutoCAD MEP was formerly known as Autodesk® Building Systems and Revit MEP was formerly known as Autodesk® Revit® Systems.

Revit Platform Technical Note

Like any design instrument, the Revit platform’s performance can depend as much on the knowledge, skill and practices of its users as on the hardware environment provided for the software. To address both areas which can affect model performance, the Revit platform team has assembled this collection of hardware requirements, recommendations and modelling best practices as researched by both internal development and our community of dedicated customers.

Revit Platform Technical Note (pdf - 954Kb)

Creating Construction Documentation with Autodesk Building Systems

Autodesk Building Systems software provides a simplified process for the creation of construction documentation, by providing discipline-specific engineering tools that automate both the production and organisation of your project documentation.

Creating Construction Documentation (pdf - 151Kb)

Enhanced Piping Design with Autodesk Building Systems

Autodesk Building Systems software provides tools for accelerated production of piping design layouts. This white paper discusses the piping enhancements in Autodesk Building Systems and explains functionality associated with the piping design tools.

Enhanced Piping Design with Autodesk Building System (pdf - 1069Kb)

Effective Collaboration Exporting ACIS Solids

Learn how to export Revit® Architecture models as ACIS® solids for use in Autodesk Building Systems.

Effective Collaboration Exporting ACIS Solids (pdf - 243Kb)

Top 10 Reasons to Move from AutoCAD to Autodesk Building Systems

If you create building mechanical, electrical, or plumbing (MEP) construction documents and are currently working with AutoCAD® software to produce your drawings, then you should take a look at the top 10 reasons why moving from AutoCAD to Autodesk Building Systems just makes sense.

Top 10 Reasons to Move from AutoCAD to Autodesk Building Systems (pdf - 546Kb)

Revit MEP: BIM for MEP Engineering

Revit MEP is the purpose-built building information modelling (BIM) software for mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) engineering. This white paper explores how key concepts of BIM improve MEP design processes, both building mechanical and electrical, and how those processes are further enhanced when combined with Revit-based architectural or structural workflows, or both.

Revit MEP: BIM for MEP Engineering (pdf - 1994Kb)