Revit MEP Scheduling for Design

There comes a time when users of Autodesk® Revit® MEP move beyond merely 3D drafting a project and start leveraging the Revit database to increase confidence in the design and increase design efficiency. There are a lot of entry points to penetrating the Revit database. Leveraging Revit’s scheduling function makes a lot of sense for this task because it should already be a familiar tool and it has the ability to directly query the database. While it is not the most intuitive tool, most everything in the database can be directly scheduled. This article will focus on tips and tools for mining that data to help validate design information and increase design accuracy.

Scheduling in Revit MEP requires MEP families in the model. These families need to contain required data for design. This is typically in the form of parameters inside the family. It takes considerable thought to get just the right data in the right place when it comes to making the process of design work for individual firms, but some things are right in the base product. The data is a common thread through the design. Crafty BIM managers will have to thread quite a few needles to optimize the perfect Revit setup.