About Customizing Plumbing Content

Typically, CAD managers and other users create plumbing content. AutoCAD MEP toolset provides 2 types of plumbing content:

• Style-based content refers to 2D objects that are defined by styles. Styles are sets of properties and associated view blocks. In plumbing drawings, style-based content includes plumbing lines, plumbing fittings, and schematic objects for schematic diagrams.
• Catalog-based content refers to 3D objects that are defined by part definitions and associated part models, and are grouped into part catalogs. In plumbing drawings, catalog-based content includes plumbing equipment (called multi-view parts, MvParts, or parts) and plumbing fixtures.

  You specify systems (a type of style) for catalog-based content. A system stores properties that all building system objects assigned to the system can share. This gives a consistent look and feel to the systems in a drawing. See Working with Style-Based Content and Working with Catalog-Based Content for more information on content types.