AutoCAD MEP — strengths
- Familiar drafting environment
- Wide industry adoption
- Mature tooling
AutoCAD MEP — limitations
- No built-in EN 12845 / NFPA 13 rule enforcement
- Hydraulic calc requires export to a separate tool
- BOM and pricing are manual
- Steep learning curve
Where FireTwin AI is different
Where AutoCAD MEP treats sprinkler design as a drafting problem, FireTwin AI treats it as a generation-and-verification problem. The engineer provides the building geometry, occupancy and hazard class; the system proposes a compliant layout, runs the hydraulic calculation, and flags every EN 12845 or NFPA 13 rule that fails before the design leaves the screen.
- Layout generated from geometry in seconds — not hours per floor
- Standards encoded — every change re-verified live
- Inline hydraulic calculation — no separate calculator
- Priced BOM generated from the live model