As your design develops and parts change, you can add new part sizes or modify existing part sizes using Content Builder. When you add a new part size, you are guided through the process step by step. When you modify an existing part size a tabbed dialog enables you to change only what you need to change.
For more information, see Approaches to Creating Parts. For each part size, you can change the 3D model block, schematic symbol, part behavior, view blocks, preview image, connectors, and property set information. You can use the same procedures that guide you through creating a block-based part to modify it. This section outlines how you can modify a block-based part and provides references to related procedures that you can use.
You can change the 3D model block of an individual part size. You can edit the existing 3D model block or create a new 3D model block for one or more part sizes. Changing the 3D model block requires that you regenerate the view blocks for the part size to ensure the correct display of the part in a drawing. Although other software companies offer programs that detail equipment and trade-specific material, AutoCAD MEP is the easiest and probably most affordable program with which to make the transition.
Like most AutoCAD products, MEP has a seemingly unlimited number of complex ways to detail objects and a variety of different tools to use. It also gives you the option to add job-specific material to a particular palette or library database. Each trade or system is broken down within your tool palette see Figure 3 , which is located under the Tools drop-down menu. When open, there are several tabs that allow you to pick a trade-specific system.
I have worked with the Electrical, Plumbing, and Architectural tabs. These trade-specific tabs included every aspect of material I needed to lay out a job in 3D such as walls, floors, piping, plumbing, sprink, pumps, panels, and so on.
The palette descriptions are vague, but offer a lot of options. It helps to have a good, solid knowledge of the terminology within your trade to start to understand the hierarchy of the palette tree.
After narrowing down the trade-specific tab and selecting a material, begin drawing your route or placing equipment. At the end or beginning of your run, you will notice new unique symbols in addition to the snap points to which you are accustomed.
The plus sign will add material, matching the properties of what was just drawn. This helps when you are adding length to your run, making a radius turn, or connecting two different pieces of pipe, duct, or similar material. From my modeling experience, it appears the symbols do not change for each trade; they are MEP-standard symbols. Ok, now lets talk about if I open the file up in and do a save as.
Can I correct this drawing by doing this saving with proxy entities and how do I do that. Wether or not it can appear correctly in a version of AutoCAD, i don't know. The older version may handle those objects differently than the newer version and they may still display incorrectly. I havn't used versions of MEP prior to the release, before that it was just the plain AutoCAD which i don't think could handle multiview objects and would probably only retain the visual fidelity present on the 2D plane.
As for saving it down to an earlier version But before doing this go to the Autocad options "options" command and move to the open and save tab keep in mind that the settings changed in this location will be permanent until they are manually reverted back to their default value.
There are some options there in the File Save Box that might be helpful. In the end, there's only so much that can be done remotely on an internet forum, good luck and have fun experimenting with the program.
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Double-click the specific design content to add it to the drawing. Layout tabs If the Model tab and layout tabs are visible, right-click any tab, and select From template. In the Select Template From File dialog, select the file that contains the layout tabs that you want to add to your drawing, and click Open.
In the Insert Layouts dialog, select the layout tabs. Note: If you do not use a template to create new drawings, you must save the drawing settings and standards that you need in each individual drawing.
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