AUGI's Revit MEP Wishlist

It's almost like the AutoCAD wishlist... except for different.

Revit MEP Wishlist

The Year of the Ribbon

We have been moving along getting people switched over to Revit MEP, but I would say there are still quite a few AutoCAD and AutoCAD MEP hold outs. As an extra motivator to switch to Revit, I am introducing the ribbon into our AutoCAD products. I had left them out in the past for change management reasons. Having to learn Revit and a new AutoCAD interface would have gained me more bad press than I needed. Now that things haved turned a corner of sorts, introducing the ribbon into AutoCAD may actually help induce a conversion to Revit MEP.

Or it could just blow up in my face. Oh, well. Having things blow up in my face was long ago written into my job description.

Greenology at Autodesk

In November Autodesk published a report from an experiment they did involving the a rapid energy modeling for 6 of their existing buildings all over the globe. If you can't get enough of that Green-Revit-Synergy type stuff, you should check out the Rapid Energy Modeling Report PDF they have posted on their web site.

Revit MEP Content

I have put a list of links for on my sidebar of Revit MEP content that you may or may not want to down load and use. If nothing else, it's a great place to start reverse engineering some families of your own.

If you have some more, please let me know and I will add them. For now I have;

• Acuity Brands Lighting
• Autodesk Seek
• Greenheck
• Kohler
• Lightolier
• Loren Cook
• McQuay
• Price
• Taco Titus
• Trane
• York

Titus Terminal Units vs. idunno Everybody Else

Those Titus guys have upped the ante by making their content available through an add on menu. This will make it easy on users, because Titus is promising to update things automatically, but it also gives Titus the opportunity to pigeon hole themselves into your Revit Interface. So far all they have posted are terminal units. You can down load the the setup here. The add-in launches an interface to download what you want like shopping in the iTunes store. Maybe too much like iTunes. It needs a work around to uninstall and I just don't like them muscling into my interface. I will not have room for every manufacturer's menu on my screen.

Autodesk Seek has some McQuay products, but no terminal units yet. I have already made my own without too much trouble and will probably stick with them. Depending on how your firm schedules, making your own might be best for you or Titus' may be great. In the end as a consulting engineer, I really don't want to spec anything by default.