Case Study: MacDonald-Miller boosts MEP design speed and consistency with Autodesk AutoCAD MEP toolset

What You Need to Know About Facilities Design and the MEP Toolset in AutoCAD

MacDonald‑Miller, a leading design‑build mechanical contractor in the Pacific Northwest, needed a faster, more consistent way to produce facilities MEP drawings across projects ranging from small installs to entire office headquarters. Traditional AutoCAD workflows using lines and blocks were time‑consuming, error‑prone when architects changed room layouts, and made enforcing CAD standards and layer management difficult. To solve this, MacDonald‑Miller adopted the MEP toolset included in AutoCAD from Autodesk.

Autodesk’s AutoCAD MEP toolset gave MacDonald‑Miller intelligent MEP objects, templates and a Style Manager that automate fittings, rounded corners, layer and annotation standards, and system behavior so assemblies move and resize together. The result is dramatically faster modifications (for example moving whole duct grids at once), less manual rework (no repeated filleting or redrawing), and consistent, standards‑compliant drawings—delivering significant time savings and improved accuracy for Autodesk’s customer MacDonald‑Miller.

MacDonald-Miller

Andrew Hamilton

Plumbing Designer