Features Include:

• Discipline-Specific Tool Palettes - Provide all team members with the right tools for the job. A discipline-specific engineering tool palette displays only the relevant tools for the mechanical, electrical or plumbing engineering user, providing consistency across project drawings. Organise the tool palette to specific company or individual preferences. Now engineers, designers and drafters can easily modify tool palette size, shape, system type and much more using in-place editing. Simply select the tools you want to change and modify the common properties all at once, streamlining the design process and improving productivity.
• Conversion of AutoCAD Blocks and Symbols to AutoCAD MEP Systems Content - Easily migrate your existing AutoCAD® symbols to AutoCAD® MEP content for production of construction documentation. Existing AutoCAD blocks and symbols are easily converted to AutoCAD® MEP content, in one easy step, using the new symbol and device converter.
• Construction Annotation - Simplify the process of annotating construction documents with automated annotation tools. AEC dimensions and dynamic labels update automatically as the design changes, minimising manual updates. Hidden lines and hatch-on objects make it easy to interpret design intent. In this release, new ease-of-use tools and enhanced grips streamline the use of break marks, labels and scheduling tags. Display the schematic view of an object rather than the model-generated view. Create schematic block, annotation or both that scale when the part size changes.
• Single Line and Double Line - AutoCAD MEP facilitates routing of ductwork, piping, cable tray and conduit with intuitive design tools that automate much of the layout process. Increase productivity with automated routing solutions based on default project settings and common industry design standards. With improved connectivity between objects, automated system layout is even easier. Improved layout tools make it easier to convert one-line designs to double line through intuitive onscreen modification. Custom fittings enable unique layouts to be designed with the creation of on-the-fly fittings. Options such as segment length help reduce time spent performing takeoffs by graphically depicting each segment piece required for the layout according to manufacturers’ specifications.
• Duct, Pipe and Wire Sizing - Automatically size ducts, plumbing and piping, and wire during design layout using traditional design methods that incorporate code-driven requirements and industry standards. These methods eliminate the need for many tedious manual recalculations. This release introduces improved connectivity that supports enhanced sizing capabilities, including one-line duct conversion to double-line ductwork based on resizing of the system and sizing of systems through external references (xrefs).
• Enhanced AutoCAD Commands - Copy, move and align all in one step with enhanced AutoCAD commands unique to AutoCAD MEP. Automatically snap in the required orientation and view. Quickly array along duct, pipe, conduit or cable trays and easily fillet plumbing piping.
• Sections and Elevations - Create sections and elevations in seconds rather than hours. When designers make a change in the design, sections and elevations update automatically. This capability saves time and helps ensure accuracy in the design. Each design change is reflected in real time, minimising tedious manual updates.
• Systems - Provide a fast and consistent method for laying out parts that represent real-world building systems, such as air supply or return systems. When designers use systems during design layout, new parts inherit the current system’s defaults, such as rise/drop symbology and display properties. Designers can apply changes simultaneously to all connected parts. And since AutoCAD MEP manages layers, systems can be assigned to layers, helping ensure the accuracy of designs. In addition, this release provides support for new system types.
• Extended Engineering Data - Easy access to engineering data in your system model enables data sharing for automated sizing calculations, enhanced scheduling and improved annotation. Extract engineering data from your models in standard file formats, such as gbXML (green building extensible mark-up language) and ddXML (duct design extensible mark-up language). Take advantage of the application programming interface (API) for interoperability with third-party analysis, cost estimating and fabrication applications. Such interoperability minimises manual transfer of design data and helps to ensure the accuracy of your designs.
• Dynamic Dimensions - As engineers, designers and drafters make changes to their mechanical, electrical or plumbing design, they benefit from the Dynamic Dimensions feature. This feature gives real-time feedback on the exact location of a move or copy change within a design. This capability facilitates Heads-up Design™, speeding the production process for faster delivery of construction documents.
• Scheduling - Create schedules in seconds, saving hours over traditional CAD drawing processes. Schedules are automatically updated as the design changes. This capability helps to reduce errors in construction documents. Now engineers, designers and drafters can schedule engineering system data, calculate values and use new table styles to lay out room and analysis schedules.
• Engineering Display Themes - Use display themes to graphically present and analyse design intent. For example, use the display theme By Velocity or Friction Loss to validate system performance for a particular area or room. Also use the display theme By Pressure Class to visually show the high, medium and low-pressure per piping class to easily identify potential design flaws. Display themes are depicted as colour-filled displays complete with legends.
• Direct Grip Manipulation - Streamlining the design process by virtually eliminating dialogue boxes, grip manipulation enhances design productivity by keeping engineers, designers and drafters focused on the design and documentation task at hand. With a single click, easily perform design and documentation changes, such as stretching the length of a duct or changing the Z elevation, while maintaining connectivity between objects.
• Setup and Deployment Options - Flexible setup and deployment options provide for consistent standardisation and management of software installations for both network and single-user installations. And through the use of profile-based shortcuts, the software can now automatically default to specified template drawings when opened.
  
• Increased Performance - Get better overall performance with AutoCAD MEP software. Manage your projects with tools that are now smoothly integrated with the AutoCAD® Sheet Set Manager, increasing the speed of drawing co-ordination. And access parts through the Add and Modify dialog boxes faster from the streamlined, comprehensive parts catalogues.

Minimum System Requirements:

• Intel® Pentium® 4, 1.4 GHz, or equivalent AMD Athlon® processor
  
• Microsoft® Windows® XP SP1 or later (Professional, Home, Tablet PC Edition) or Windows® 2000 SP4, Microsoft® Windows Vista™ (Enterprise, Business, Premium, Ultimate Edition)
  
• 2 GB RAM
  
• 3 GB free disk space
  
• 1280x1024 monitor and display adapter capable of 24-bit colour
  
• Internet connection for license registration
  
• Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 6.0 or later
  
• DVD-Rom – Any speed (for installation Only)
  
• MS-Mouse compliant
  

Recommended System Requirements

• The following are the recommended hardware and operating system requirements for installing the AutoCAD® MEP 2008 application on a single workstation.
• Intel® Pentium® 4, 3.0 GHz, or equivalent AMD Athlon® processor
  
• Microsoft® Windows® XP SP1 or later (Professional, Home, Tablet PC Edition) or Windows® 2000 SP4, Microsoft® Windows Vista™ (Enterprise, Business, Premium, Ultimate Edition)
  
• 3 GB RAM
  
• 4 GB free disk space
  
• 128MB, 1280x1024 32-bit colour video display adapter, True Colour
  
• Dedicated video card with hardware support for OpenGL® spec 1.3 or later
  
• MS-Mouse compliant

Note: AutoCAD MEP does not work on the 64 bit operating system

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