These advanced courses follow the concepts and methodologies laid out in the Fundamentals course. Aimed at the more competent Engineers and MEP design modellers looking to further their knowledge within their core discipline. Each one-day course is tailored to individual MEP disciplines (Mechanical, Electrical, Hydraulic & Fire) and has been designed to accommodate industry standard requirements. Attendees of these courses will take away key knowledge and practical advice around such topics as detailed design tool settings, advanced scheduling techniques, discipline-specific connector configurations and Shared Parameter management.
Please scroll down to view course details for Mechanical, Electrical, Hydraulic and Fire disciplines.
Mechanical Advanced Topics
- Mechanical Settings
- Rise Drop Symbology
- Duct/pipe Prefix/suffix
- Hidden Lines
- Duct/Pipe Routing Preferences
- Adding multiple fittings- Hybrid duct/pipes
- Controlling size ranges
- Building a pipe type from scratch
- View Filtering Techniques
- Utilising filter priorities
- Generate a penetration plan
- Using OmniClass filter rules
- Advanced Scheduling Techniques
- Embedded Schedules
- Calculated Values
- Conditional Formatting
- Comparing Actual Supply Rates to calculated/specified Rates
- Exporting schedule data out of Revit
- Fabrication Parts in Revit
- Design to Fabrication conversion
- Multi-point Routing
- Route & Fill
- Optimize Lengths
- Edit Parts
- Exclusion Mode
- Fabrication Reports
- Export MAJ Job File
- Connectors Explained
- Duct Connector settings
- Flow configuration
- Calculated, Preset, System
- Heating & Cooling Load Analysis
- Review of old tools
- Recovering them in Revit 2023
- Prep for Analysis – Spaces / Volume Computations / Building & Space Types
Electrical Advanced Topics
- Electrical Settings Overview
- MEP Hidden Lines / Draw order
- More recent settings
- Cable Tray / Conduit Setup
- Routing Preferences
- Tricks to get connections when vertical on wall (copy and rotate)
- Cable tray clearance zone workflow
- Connecting conduit/cable tray to panel boards by face
- Overview of Fabrication cable tray – Functionality/graphical benefits
- View Filtering Techniques
- Utilising filter priorities
- View Filters to accommodate all possible Service Types
- Colour filters using service type parameter
- Shared Parameters for filtering / tracking / scheduling
- BMA parameter manager tool for finding parameters
- Electrical Circuiting
- Custom circuit naming
- Two-way switch systems options
- Workaround with wires (Level 1 conference room)
- Electrical Panel Schedules Tips & Tricks
- Adjusting one/two columns etc within the panel family properties (Part Type)
- Load classification totals
- Heating & Cooling Load Analysis
- Review of old tools
- Recovering them in Revit 2023
- Prep for Analysis – Spaces / Volume Computations / Building & Space Types
- Advanced Scheduling Techniques
- Embedded Schedules
- Calculated Values
- Conditional Formatting
- ELUM Tools Overview
- Lighting Analysis tool – add-on for Revit
Hydraulic Advanced Topics
- Pipe Settings
- Rise Drop Symbology
- Duct/pipe Prefix/suffix
- Hidden Lines
- Pipe Routing Preferences
- Adding multiple fittings – Hybrid pipes
- Controlling size ranges
- Building a pipe type from scratch
- Advanced Scheduling Techniques
- Embedded Schedules
- Calculated Values
- Conditional Formatting
- Using calculated values to calculate pipe sizes – e.g. smart rain water outlet family
- Totalling fixture units for pipe sizing
- Exporting schedule data out of Revit
- Images in schedules
- View Filtering Techniques
- Utilising filter priorities
- Generate a pipe penetration plan
- Using OmniClass filter rules
- Connectors Explained
- Pipe Connector settings
- Flow configuration
- Calculated, Preset, System
- Additional Topics
- Graded pipe systems best practice
- Invert Level IL example with spot elevations
- Lookup Tables for pipe fitting control & consistency
Fire Advanced Topics
- Graded pipe systems best practice
- Fixture units
- Hybrid pipe types and routing preferences
- Pipe prefix & suffix defaults, annotation, tags etc.
- Lookup Tables for pipe fitting control & consistency
- Sprinkler Pipe layouts
- Tips & Tricks for Sprinkler & Fire services design in Revit
Common Advanced Topics
- View Filters & graphical styles – colours of other disciplines setup etc.
- Graphic styles, for different documentation outputs single line, double line etc.
- Specific template & title block with images logos etc.
- Workset setup and central file workflows (Collaboration)
- Project North / True North / Rotating North
- Revit Phases
- Advanced scheduling techniques MEP- quantity take-off, model check, data validation etc.
- Embedded Schedules, Calculated Values, Conditional Formatting
- Breaking up the views in a model, working / Presentation etc.
- Revit model housekeeping/maintenance – Arch model included
- Revit 2023 new features
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