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Feb 11 2016In-Product View
Applies to AutoCAD MEP 2016
Cable Tray
Conduit
Fittings
Duct
Pipe
Note: U.S. metric content is developed based on the U.S. General Services
Administration (GSA) standards for metric design. U.K. and Global metric
content is developed based on the British Standards Institute (BSI) standards
for metric design.
As you design systems, the parts and style-based content available to you
depends on the catalogs and content locations you have specified on the MEP
Catalogs tab of the Options dialog box. If you require a part that is not available,
you can create catalog parts using Content Builder, a content creation tool that
includes 3D modeling and 2D drawing features. You can create 2 types of parts:
parametric or block-based.
BestPractice: To facilitate the process of upgrading to a new version of
AutoCAD MEP, add all your custom parts to custom catalogs. Do not add
custom parts to the catalogs provided with the software. When you upgrade,
this allows you to easily move all of your custom catalog content as a whole to
the catalog folders for the new version (where new versions of the catalogs
provided with the software are also located). You can use both types of catalogs
during layout if you specify multiple catalogs for a domain.