Revit MEP 2009 Required Reading & Viewing

I've been working with Revit MEP recently getting my head around the new linked room/space/zone work-flow process and energy analysis. Part of that is for MEP use, as intended, but also to see how well it fits with the retail design work-flow. Retail space analysis involves carving up, but not altering, rooms provided by the architect. The space work-flows in MEP seem closer to our requirements than previous methods of creating new rooms/area analysis in a project with a linked architectural file. Maybe Revit MEP will be a better Retail Design Platform than Revit Architecture....

Anyway, before you can evaluate a tool you have to understand how to use it and I found a series of videos posted on Kyle Bernhardt's MEP blog to be a valuable resource. They are a brilliant introduction to the new process as demonstrate it in action. It's far preferable to just plowing through the written help/tutorial files. I'm doing that too but a short time spent watching the videos made the rational and process a whole lot clearer. Unfortunately they were spread out over several months, with other posts between, so I've gathered them into the list of links below. If you're new to Revit MEP I can recommend them!

Kyle's Guide to Space Import and AnalysisInside the System

1. A Volume for Engineers
2. Space Creation - Part 1
3. Spaces and Rooms...Good Friends
4. Space Creation - Part 2
5. Making the Cut
6. Gettin' Fancy
7. Let There Be Zones!
8. Zoning it Up
9. Building Performance Analysis - Project Info
10. Building Performance Analysis - Spaces & Zones
11. Heating & Cooling Load Analysis in Revit MEP 2009

This white-paper is also compulsory reading;

Inside the System: Required Reading

Inside the System: Required Reading

For the second day in a row I have an exciting announcement. We have just released our Revit Platform 2009 Technical Note as a Subscription benefit for all customers with entitlements to a Revit 2009 product. What is this technical note you say?

For the second day in a row I have an exciting announcement. We have just released our Revit Platform 2009 Technical Note as a Subscription benefit for all customers with entitlements to a Revit 2009 product. What is this technical note you say?

Well, it is a comprehensive paper that discusses best practices for optimal performance and productivity within the Revit 2009 family of products. It is required reading for all Revit users interested to know this information straight from the Product Teams themselves. It is the result of a comprehensive effort among the Designers, Developers, Quality Assurance, Consulting, Customer Success Engineers, and Product Managers, and we are excited to get this information straight to users.

Well, it is a comprehensive paper that discusses best practices for optimal performance and productivity within the Revit 2009 family of products. It is required reading for all Revit users interested to know this information straight from the Product Teams themselves. It is the result of a comprehensive effort among the Designers, Developers, Quality Assurance, Consulting, Customer Success Engineers, and Product Managers, and we are excited to get this information straight to users.

Some major topics that are discussed:

Some major topics that are discussed:

Project Structuring

Worksharing

Linked Files

Hardware Optimization

Large Model Performance