Break out the party hats, order some pizza, it’s time to celebrate! This is the day we all knew would come, we just didn’t know when. If I had to list the top 3 things I would like to see added to Revit MEP they would be: 1. Conduit and Cable Tray 2. Customizable Panel Schedules 3. Copy/Monitor MEP fixtures Every one of these features, and more, have been added to Revit MEP 2011! So they added these new tools, but really, how good are they? I will share with you my first impressions of each of these tools: Bent Conduit In a BIM project, 3D Conduit and Cable Tray can be critical elements in large projects where space is more valuble than gold. Using previous versions of Revit MEP, engineers and designers could see what a powerful tool it was, but when a project called for these elements to be modelled in 3d, struggled with cumbersome workarounds such as using the plumbing tools to represent conduit or creating their own set of line-based families for cable tray. When I first heard conduit was getting added to Revit MEP I thought, the tool better not be just a modified version of the pipe tool with larger radius elbow families. They needed to give us the ability to do bent conduit, and they did! The new conduit tool has two families: Conduit with Fittings, and Conduit without Fittings. The Conduit without Fittings family is for bent conduit. This seems to work very well. There are actual Revit fittings that are inserted at the bends, but as you can see from the image the bends are continuous without any visible break. As you are drawing conduit there is an option in the Options Bar to adjust the mininum Bend Radius for the bent fittings.