As part of an ongoing building plan, this article discusses the process of drawing and adjusting piping systems. The focus is on creating a tree system with branch lines, and making necessary adjustments to the layout and elevations of these lines.
Key Insights
- The article details the process of drawing a piping system, with emphasis on creating a tree system and adjusting the branch lines connected to the main line. Specific elevation adjustments are made to fit the plan and layout of the building.
- Consideration for architectural elements, like roof slope and ceiling height, is important in the placement and elevation of the piping system. Adjustments are made to ensure that the pipes align properly and are not exposed in inappropriate places.
- Despite using the create system options to generate the initial layout, manual adjustments and changes are necessary to fine-tune the piping system. The process involves deletion, reconnection, and extension of lines to meet specific project requirements.
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In the last video, we used the Create System options to generate somewhat of a layout, but we have a lot of work to do going forward. So in this video, we'll be making this a little more appropriate to our plan here. So the first thing I want to do is this is going to be our main.
And we're going to make this a little tree system with Branch Lines going on each end. And I think we'll be doing Riser Nipples with our Branch Lines connected to the main. We will be changing some Branch Line elevations.
So the first thing I want to do is just drag down to here. And all these fittings in this piece, that's fine, I'm going to go ahead and delete everything. Now this piece, I'm going to change this two inch for our main.
That's fine. We don't need to worry about a Transition Piece there. I'm going to right click, go to draw pipe.
And I'm going to go all the way down here. And we'll run along this wall here. And let's stop here.
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Now this is open to above. So during the course of a project like this, we're going to have to reach out to the architect and put an RFI for a soffit that we can fit into here that it'll hide our pipe run going through here. But for now, we're going to draw this through to here.
Now before we move further, let's go on ahead and delete this piece here. Currently, all of this main is running at 11 feet. But up in this area with our main here, we're at 12 feet.
So let's go on ahead and change the elevation of this piece to 12 feet. Now I'm going to reconnect these, I'll move this to the center line there. And we should have a vertical piece connecting that we can tell by the couplings and the 90s that we should be good to go.
Okay. Now moving forward, let's go to draw pipe. And we'll connect into right here.
And our two and our two and a half inch main has an outlet to our two inch piece of main here that's going to be feeding towards the library area. Okay, let's go to our section right here. Let's go on ahead and take a look.
So currently, we can see we're running below the ceiling here, because when we use our mechanical settings, we told our main to be at 11 feet. For the most part, that's okay. But we're going to actually have to come to this spot, rise up above and come through the wall here so that our pipe is not exposed below this ceiling.
So let's go back to our Piping Plan. And we'll go on ahead and Split with Gap, let's go ahead, cut a piece right here. That's fine, we don't need a Transition Piece there.
Now we've got this piece, and we're going to go on ahead and set this to let's move it up to 13 feet. And connect into that. And now if we go back to our section view, I think we might even want to pull this up a little farther.
So why don't we take this piece up to 13 six, let's go to 14 feet. And here we can pull in a little bit closer to the wall. Just like that, that's a little better.
Okay. Yeah, 14 feet is fine. If you want to go to 13 six, that's okay.
With coordination later happening, we might have to change some of these elevations anyway. Now this is definitely too low below the ceiling. We're going to have to change all these.
Now we're going to go through changing the elevations of our Branch Lines. So let's go back to our Piping Plan. And the first thing I'd like to do is we've got all these extra pieces here.
We can delete those. Delete all the stuff, except the sprinklers. This piece we can keep, that's no problem.
If it's fully connected, that's fine. If it's not, go ahead and delete it. That one's fine.
Okay. So the pieces that are connected, we'll leave them as is. The ones that aren't, let's go ahead and right click, draw pipe to extend it out.
And I'll do that to this piece here. Okay. Now we should have these Branch Lines that come on either section of the main.
Missed this piece here. So that's no problem. We'll go to draw pipe and bring this over.
Actually, we're going to pull this over to here and I'll show you why. Let's take this section and let's go here and go to view. So as we can see, we have our roof slope here and this piece of pipe is currently above.
We don't want that. So I'll go on ahead and delete that. This is currently too low.
We want it to be 14 feet. All right. We'll take a look at that section one more time.
Now we're up above right here. Okay. It's looking much better.
As you can see, the Create System still has us having to do some work. So it's not a magic button by any means. All right.
So let's review going forward. Going to pull this piece over to about there. We have a run of main here that should be at 13.6. We drop down and this whole run should be at 11 feet.
This is at 11 feet. 11 feet. We then come back up to 12 feet and 12 feet.
All two inch that ties into our two and a half inch main that is at 12 feet. Okay. In the next video, let's finish up this area.
