autocad 2004 jump to 2012 mep help!

[celesteboydston418087]

Does anyone out there have a good place to learn all the changes that I am seeing in 2012/2013 MEP? I have gone from 2004 to MEP 2012/2013 and Revit 2012/2013 and am doing the basics right now-hanging on to the old ways and wanting to learn the new. I know I am missing out on a lot of the improvements since 2004 but it is overwhelming all those changes. From what in the world AECs are to what is this Annotative vs standard stuff.... And then when I open the options menu all the "options" I have. Any training information - links you all know about, books, etc - that explain the new format and when it happened would be truly appreciated. - Celeste

[Wanderer]

Does anyone out there have a good place to learn all the changes that I am seeing in 2012/2013 MEP? I have gone from 2004 to MEP 2012/2013 and Revit 2012/2013 and am doing the basics right now-hanging on to the old ways and wanting to learn the new. I know I am missing out on a lot of the improvements since 2004 but it is overwhelming all those changes. From what in the world AECs are to what is this Annotative vs standard stuff.... And then when I open the options menu all the "options" I have. Any training information - links you all know about, books, etc - that explain the new format and when it happened would be truly appreciated. - Celeste

I haven't been using AutoCAD MEP more than a couple of years, so I can't say for sure everything that has changed.
A book might help - http://www.amazon.com/Aubin-Academy-...ds=autocad+mep
or even just reviewing some of the recent new features videos for Vanilla AutoCAD (I really like Heidi's videos, check out the links on the left side of her blog: http://heidihewett.blogs.com/ )


For the Revit MEP, if you haven't been all the way into it before, I'd suggest grabbing a book and starting at the first chapter.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Aubin-Acad.../dp/1478184000
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyT...eCd-SYBEX.html
There's a lot of activity in the Revit MEP forum, if you have specific questions.