Learn about software improvements for MEP systems and related analysis.
- Improved performance in MEP views: The underlying technologies used to display MEP elements in views have been enhanced, improving performance when opening and manipulating views that involve large numbers of MEP elements.
- Tapped duct and pipe tags: Prior to this enhancement, Revit could not tag a numerical value along a tapped duct or pipe that varied along its length. For parameters that display as Multiple Values, this enhancement displays the actual value based on the location of the tag or its leader.
- New calculation method for pressure drop: You can specify either the Haaland or Colebrook equations in Mechanical Settings when calculating the pressure drop for duct and pipe. This capability helps improve the accuracy of certain mechanical calculations, with regionally applicable variations on Revit MEP's native formula. See About Duct Settings or Specify Calculation for pipe settings.
- Improved learning tools: You can now customize Revit tooltips to help describe and communicate parameters and their intended use, and to improve overall product learnability.
- Electrical API enhancements: Users and third-party developers can now create all wire shapes available in the user interface through the APIs, including adding and modifying wire properties and removing vertices.
- Schedule enhancements: You can now create schedules in Revit that include images to convey graphical information for elements, such as lighting fixtures. See Architecture and Platform Enhancements.
- Improved behavior: Software behavior has been improved in several areas to give more predictable results. For example, when you import point clouds into a project and open an MEP discipline view, the point clouds now display as model elements instead of underlay elements. As a result, the point cloud-based elements do not obscure the MEP elements in the view.