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Monday, April 19, 2010

Who Knew? Adding Oval Duct, Cable Trays and Conduit to a Revit MEP 2010 Project Upgraded to Revit MEP 2011

There are some good tips and very useful information you will want to know regarding new features that will save you time and frustration in the Feature Limitations and Notes section of the Readme.chm file that gets installed with your Revit MEP 2011.  I did not find the information duplicated in a search of the User Assistance accessed from within Revit MEP 2011.

If you do not have the opportunity to view the file immediately upon completion of installation, you may find it at the default installation location at: C:\Autodesk\Autodesk_Revit_MEP-B_2011_English_Win_32-64bit\RevitSetup\Revit MEP or do a search for the file. 

The tip for adding oval ducts, cable trays, and conduit to a Revit MEP 2010 project updated to Revit MEP 2011?  Simply use the Transfer Project Standards tool found on the Manage tab of the ribbon to copy new objects types from a Revit MEP 2011 template into a project that originated in Revit MEP 2010.


I discovered that Martin Schmid of Autodesk has created a great post on the subject of using the Transfer Project Standards tool to add oval duct functionality to a Revit MEP project upgraded to Revit MEP 2011 on the Inside the System blog.  Follow this link to read Martin's post:  http://tinyurl.com/yyl53o8.