Learn how to modify piping systems and coordinate with different disciplines within a construction project in this informative article. Gain insights on proper movement of pipe systems, how to make automatic connections, and ensure that alterations are correctly reflected in 3D views.
Key Insights
- The article demonstrates how to isolate and modify elements of a pipe system, ensuring that changes are accurately reflected and that the entire system isn't unintentionally shifted.
- The piece also highlights the importance of cross-discipline coordination, showcasing how to check pipe system modifications against a 3D fire sprinkler system and a level two reflected ceiling plan.
- Readers are guided on how to navigate potential obstacles, such as problematic register locations, by adjusting sprinkler placement while maintaining proper spacing and ensuring continued connection to the piping system.
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Let's grab this T and reconnect that portion of the main. And let's go back up to the T on the other side of the main and get rid of it. And now that this is isolated, we can set it to nine foot eight.
When you're moving pipe, be careful and wary that you're not moving an entire system. Now what we can do is if we draw to the center line of the main, we should have an automatic connection. Looks good.
Let's do that on the other piece down here. Okay, let's just confirm everything back with our section. And as we can see here, we have a nice filler piece.
And the length is about three and a half inches, should be good. It's tight, but that can be fabricated. We can drag this over and see the same thing on this side.
Okay, we're good. So it also seems that this area, this pipe, this pipe, we took care of this. And this one is also going through this duct work here.
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We'll do the same thing. Let's delete the fittings and let's set them to nine foot eight. If it's not available as a selection, we can type it.
Okay, let's go to our trim extend multiple elements. Okay, let's check this out in our 3D view. So let's go to our 3D fire sprinkler system.
And if we zoom in, we can see right here is the piece of main we re-elevated, it's nine foot eight. And now we are going under the duct work and we're still above the ceiling. Same with these pieces.
So this is essentially a portion of what coordination would look like with another discipline. Let's check one more thing. Let's go to our level two reflected ceiling plan.
Now we're seeing the duct work here in this plan, and we'll get rid of it for our annotations. But it'll serve a purpose for our sprinklers, so let's zoom in on some of the classrooms. Overall, it looks pretty good, but we do have some register locations that could be problematic with our sprinklers.
So for example, in this work room here, this might be in this tile. We can still maintain our spacing and move it over. So let's click on this sprinkler.
Let's go back to our piping plan, and there it is highlighted there. Let's go to move and two feet. You can see our arm over is still connected.
We'll go back to the reflected ceiling plan, and now we're in a new tile there. And we're still spaced okay to that wall. Now this one might be problematic as well, or maybe this will go to this tile.
We'll leave this one for now. Okay, and in case we do have to move it, it's just as easy as clicking on the sprinkler, move. And we can go two feet, and we can go back to our piping plan and see that it's still connected.
Okay, so in the next series of videos, we'll begin our annotations for our piping and reflected ceiling plans and wrap up our project.
