Parametric Revit MEP families for manufacturing.
Case study: parametric Revit MEP families for manufacturing and installation of MEP equipment — ASTCAD created custom families with proper LOD, type catalogues and shared parameters.
CASE STUDY – Mechanical Engineering Design and Drafting Services
Parametric Revit MEP families for manufacturing and installation of MEP equipments in australia
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Case Study Highlights
The Client:
- Industry: Sustainable Energy & Environmental solutions
- Sector: Sustainable energy and environmental solutions
The Objective:
- Efficient Manufacturing and installation of MEP equipments in an education building.
The Solution:
- The team created different parametric Revit MEP families of plumbing fixtures, lighting, pipe accessories, electrical fixtures, Mechanical equipment etc to enable efficient manufacturing and installation of these MEP fixtures.
Technology/Software Used
A company offering sustainable energy and environmental solutions approached ASTCAD with the project for creating detailed Revit MEP families for manufacturing of MEP equipments. The client, an energy sector supplier, offers a combination of expertise in Energy Efficiency and other sustainable solutions from design and installation of local and renewable energy solutions to integrated services.
Challenges
- From one single product dimension, an entire set of families had to be created successfully.
- Understanding the project was very critical, and a team member had to be deputed at clients site for around 3 months.
Engineering Solution
Client provided inputs in the form of PDF files with manufacturing details of MEP equipment.
- The designs were analysed and a lot of changes were done, and around 250 families were created using Revit 2014.
- Initially remote support was provided; however, as the project progressed, a team member had to be deputed at client’s site for around 3 months, to understand the project well.
- This person deputed executed the onsite task with close coordination with the client’s team and successfully completed the project.
- At the end of this project that lasted for around 6 months, a detailed Revit MEP Parametric Family was delivered.
Benefits
- The Revit family creation helped streamline the manufacturing process.
- Management of content for the manufacturing of MEP equipments became easy’.
- The MEP equipment and supporting devices were installed into the building shell more accurately.
About Australian Design And Drafting Services
ASTCAD Services is a specialist firm providing engineering solutions to organisations across Australia. We have extensive experience in providing concept to manufacturing and post-manufacturing solutions to clients with a team of expert design engineers, CAD professionals and simulation analysts. We are based in Australia, serving business hours, with a world-class infrastructure, hardware and software capabilities to address complex engineering problems with least turn around time.
Revit MEP families built for real projects
Revit MEP families succeed or fail on their connectors: a mechanically beautiful family whose duct connector points the wrong way costs a coordination hour every time it is placed. This library project delivered MEP families with connectors, parameters and lookup tables verified inside live project templates, sized realistically from manufacturer data, and named so a services modeller finds the right family the first time. File-size discipline kept fully loaded projects responsive — the quality metric users notice most and vendors mention least.
Consultants, contractors and manufacturers commission Revit MEP families from us for internal libraries and published content alike. Pilot batches are standard: five families delivered against your template proves the standard before the volume commits.