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Version 1.6

October 2026

AutoMEP Version 1.6 starts a project when you drop a drawing on the dashboard, rebuilds the dashboard around stars, folders and status, fills in the climate zone from the address, and places receptacles, switches, ducts and symbols the way a designer would.

What changed

  • Drop a drawing to start a project: drag a DWG or RVT file from your computer onto the dashboard, anywhere at all, and New Project opens with the file attached and the project name filled in from the file name. Drop something that is not a drawing and it tells you so, and if you drop several files it uses the first drawing.
  • A dashboard that keeps a long list tidy: star the projects you use most and they stay at the top and under Starred in the sidebar, file the rest into folders by dragging them across, and search from the sidebar. Status boxes show what is running, what needs your reply, what is done and what failed, and clicking one filters the list.
  • You can tell projects apart at a glance: every row says whether it holds a DWG, a Revit model or both.
  • The climate zone fills itself in: pick the project address in New Project and AutoMEP sets the climate zone for that location. You can still change it, and it stays as you set it.
  • Receptacles placed the way you would place them: ask for receptacles and AutoMEP draws duplex symbols along the walls and routes the homerun back to the panel, rather than dropping labeled boxes in the middle of a room.Watch: How to Generate Power Plans and Home Runs with AutoMEP
  • Light switches by the door: switches go beside the entry door of the room they serve, using the doors actually drawn in your plan, and AutoMEP names any room it could not find a sensible spot in rather than guessing.
  • Ducts that go around things: duct runs are routed through your drawing with square turns, around walls and equipment, instead of cutting straight across the plan.Watch: How to Route Ducting Properly in AutoMEP
  • It finds the right room: AutoMEP reads the room names in your drawing, including names written as multiline text, and works out where each room starts and ends, so a request for something in every bedroom lands in the bedrooms.Watch: Find Any Room by Simply Asking AutoMEP
  • It uses the symbols already in your drawing: when your drawing already has a block for a sink, a receptacle or a fixture, AutoMEP places that block, at the same rotation and scale, instead of drawing a generic one. A symbol you ask for on top of something, such as a device on a counter, is placed on its surface.Watch: How to Place Fixtures Using Your Existing CAD Blocks with AutoMEP
  • Your project's codes pick the sizing table: for new projects, the plumbing and mechanical codes you select decide which published table sizes your pipes and ducts, with your drawing's units used for how the size is written.
  • Units it checks rather than trusts: when a drawing's unit setting disagrees with its own geometry, AutoMEP works from what the drawing really measures, so a duct cannot come out absurdly wide.
  • Notes and tags you can read: leader notes point at the thing they describe and sit off the walls, tags move clear of other text, and job notes read clearly, without internal references or coordinates.
  • Follow-ups keep your earlier work: a new request on a drawing you have already worked on carries forward what your earlier requests added, instead of coming back without it.
  • A bill of materials that counts: BOM tables now count the devices AutoMEP placed, in real units, and the table shows on the sheet.
  • A PDF with your drawing on it: a job on a drawing that lives entirely in model space now comes with a PDF that shows the drawing, rather than an empty sheet.
  • Answering a question works: when AutoMEP asks you something about a job, your answer now goes back into that job and it carries on.
  • Older drawings come back when you need them: start a new request on a drawing you uploaded a while ago and AutoMEP brings it back from storage and runs it, instead of failing.
  • Damaged drawings are flagged before you try: if a file cannot be opened for editing, its card says so, explains how to repair it in AutoCAD, and a job on it will not run or use any of your plan. Drawings that reference linked files you have not uploaded say which ones are missing.
  • Help when you need it: a support chat in the Help Center and inside the app answers questions about AutoMEP, and the Help Center links to a status page.
  • Delete your account yourself: Settings has a Delete account option that removes your drawings, projects and history, and cancels your subscription in the same step.
  • Smaller fixes: tags drawn by a job now show up in the viewer instead of blending into the background, the viewer's background button works on the first click, choosing a climate zone and then an address no longer clears your choice, and a declined renewal sends you to update your card instead of starting a second subscription.