Specify Fabrication Settings

Use the Fabrication Settings dialog to specify a fabrication configuration and load fabrication services into the model, and to specify connection indicators for the Route and Fill tool.

Before you can place fabrication parts in a Revit MEP model, you must specify a fabrication configuration for the model. The configuration must reside on your network or on a local drive. Each Revit MEP model may use only one configuration at a time.

The fabrication configuration contains fabrication content and associated product data to support coordinated modeling and detailing for fabrication and construction.

The sample fabrication configurations contain generic US Imperial and UK Metric content. You can access the sample fabrication configurations from www.autodesk.com/revit-2016-mep-fabrication-sample-content-imperial and www.autodesk.com/revit-2016-mep-fabrication-sample-content-metric.

Configurations managed with the current version of the Autodesk Fabrication products (CADmep, ESTmep, and CAMduct) will also be listed for use within Revit.

Before you can use a fabrication configuration in Revit MEP, you must use one of the Autodesk Fabrication products to set a GUID for the database if it has not already been set. For more information, see Setting a GUID for a Database in the Fabrication product Help.

With the fabrication configuration specified, you can then load the fabrication services you will use in the current Revit MEP model.

Note: If you are using a workshared environment and changes need to be made to the fabrication configuration, all users working in the model should synchronize with the central and then close the model. The person responsible for making changes to the fabrication configuration must reload the configuration before adding or removing any services.

1. To open the Fabrication Settings dialog, click Systems tabFabrication panel.
   Tip: If the MEP Fabrication Parts palette is visible, you can also click the Settings button to open the dialog.
2. In the Fabrication Settings dialog, select a fabrication configuration from the drop-list of available configurations. A list of Unloaded services for the selected configuration is shown on the left.
3. To update the services used in the current model with modifications made to the configuration in one of the Autodesk Fabrication products (CADmep, ESTmep, and CAMduct), click Reload Configuration.
4. To add a service into the current Revit MEP model, select a service from the list of Unloaded services on the left and click Add. The service is added to the list of Loaded services on the right.
5. To remove a service from the model, select a service on the right and click Remove.
   Note: If a Revit MEP model contains parts from a fabrication service, you cannot remove the service from the model.
6. When the required services have been loaded, click OK. The MEP Fabrication Parts palette is populated with the services and associated fabrication parts. You can place fabrication parts in the drawing area.
7. To change the colors for the connection arrows used with the Route and Fill tool, open the Fabrication Settings dialog and click the Connection Indicators tab. The Plan setting controls the color of the arrow that displays in plan view. The Towards and Away settings control the colors of the arrows that display in a 3D view.