What’s MEP? 
Mechanical, electrical, and plumbing or as some have referred to it as the tin, copper, and brass of the building. AutoCAD MEP 2010 is the better, faster AutoCAD software for mechanical, electrical, and plumbing system design.
There was three main thematic focus areas in AutoCAD MEP 2010 besides the obvious AutoCAD 2010 feature set included in this vertical AutoCAD based product for MEP users.
- Improved Usability and Performance
- Improved Workspaces
- Ribbon UI
- Application Menu
- Better Performance
- Sloped Piping
- Parallel Pipe Routing
- Comprehensive Design Content
- New Additional Content
- MvParts from Solids or Mass Elements
- Import Parts from Autodesk® Inventor® 2010
- Content Builder Enhancements
- Migration Tools
- Autodesk® Seek integration
- Better Construction Documents
- Enhanced Panel Schedules
- Enhanced Electrical Devices
- Display by Elevation
- Better Graphical Display
- Publish Enhancements
Other highlights
- Import Parts from Autodesk® Inventor® 2010 using the ..ADSK file exchange format.
- Export to PDF and PDF Underlay
- Display MEP objects differently based on their elevation
- Convert Solids or Mass Elements to MvParts directly
AutoCAD MEP 2010, coming to a desktop near you soon!
Check out tips and tutorials from AutoCAD MEP expert Armundo Darling.
Cheers,
Shaan
Dear Shaan,
Thanks a lots for your Information about ACAD MEP 2010,
Again thank you for you ime
Binu Mathew
President
FOCUS Kuwait
http://www.focuskwt.org
I also heard that sloped conduit was introduced for conduit in MEP 2010. Is that correct?
SThoresen,
I know Sloped Piping is a new feature and that perhaps could be used for conduit but I will double check on this.
http://www.autodesk.com/autocadmep
http://www.autodesk.com/autocadmep-uivideo
Thank you for reading the Between the Lines blog.
Best Regards,
Shaan
While opening MEP-2010 it take more time to open the drawing, after it gets opened within short time its gets closed with fatal errors
Make sure to submit your CER when you get the fatal error so that the team can research the issue for a solution. If these are older version drawings, they may take longer to open if not 2010 DWG format as objects are updating on open to the new format. Also try a AUDIT and RECOVER of the files.
Sincerely,
Shaan Hurley
CSR (Construction Documentation MEP 2010)
I am having problems with my plumbing layout, lines not breaking while creating a view drawing. Wile creating my plumbing layout under constructs all my plumbing lines are broken properly cw, hw, sw. any seggestions….