There has never been a more exciting time to be in the AEC industry. The last few years has seen major shifts in how architects and engineers create more complex and increasingly efficient building projects. The advancements in technology and changes in social, financial and environmental practices have changed almost every aspect of project lifecycles as well as how design tools are being utilized. Many firms, large and small, have struggled to keep up with the changes BIM has presented and still maintain productivity, quality and profitability while adopting new technology and managing training, collaboration and implementation of new tools while boldly going forward into unknown territory.

AutoCAD P&ID streamlines and automates common design tasks in order to create faster and easier Piping & Instrumentation Diagrams. While the Off Page Connectors have more intelligence than a simple AutoCAD block, it still lacks total automation. Let’s take a look at how we can add additional intelligence to the Off Page Connectors and make our job even easier.

This video demonstrates a great utility from Subscription Center that can be used to coordinate Space/Room Names between an Architectural and MEP Revit project.