Discover the complexities and attention to detail that are required in managing a sprinkler system's layout and installation. This article provides an in-depth walkthrough of how to align, adjust and connect multiple sections of piping and sprinklers.
Key Insights
- The alignment process includes locating each sprinkler in a section, adjusting the section view for accurate positioning, and drawing the pipe to connect the sprinkler.
- Challenges such as sprinklers hosted to the wrong portion of the ceiling can occur and require careful attention to identify and correct. In this case, the solution is to flip the work plane.
- Installation of sprinkler systems requires careful coordination and meticulous attention to detail, as well as the ability to troubleshoot and adjust plans in response to issues that arise during the process.
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Pull our section back, continue, highlight that sprinkler there, make sure we can find it in our section. Here we are. Okay.
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The next sprinkler is offset, so we'll have to bring this section, going to zoom in and drag it out, zoom back out to find my sprinkler, there we are, draw pipe, didn't quite get it aligned, AL, okay, we have the next sprinkler, okay, so we're over there, let's go to this row, so we're looking for this sprinkler right over here, drag it out, line up, draw pipe, okay, there we are there, we are almost at the end of this run, okay, now we have an offset at this sprinkler here, so we'll have to have our section facing the other direction for that one, so we might as well put it there now, okay, let's find that sprinkler in our section, we're coming through this pipe, so I'm going to pull it up just a bit, there we go, I have my fitting, I'm going to click my fitting, draw pipe, not quite aligned, so AL, now, if you think this is tough and tedious, imagine being in the field and installing all of this, so should you decide which one you would prefer, but both aspects are definitely not easy in their own respects, okay, there's that sprinkler there, so we'll go to this section, and in this case, we are very close, so there are a few things that we can do, we can go over, draw pipe, down, let's go one foot, we can go back over again, give a little bit of a swing joint, align, align, so now this extra filler piece allows this enough room to move over, and it looks like we need to connect this, okay, one more, let's connect this sprinkler and this one to the main, and we'll be at a good stopping point, it looks like my section is cutting through this piece of pipe, so let me pull that back, there we are, alright, it's connected, let's move on to this sprinkler and connect it to the main, so first, I'll pull my section down here, now what we can see what's going on here is our sprinklers are actually hosted to the wrong portion of the ceiling, so be careful if you see something like this, luckily, all we need to do is click on the sprinkler, and right here, we can flip our work plane, and now we're back to pendants facing down, so let's look for those, I think this has happened to this area of the ceiling when we brought these sprinklers in, alright, let's confirm, let's pull back, so most of these are okay, but in this situation, at this higher elevation ceiling, we'll flip that work plane, and let's just check these last two, okay, now, this sprinkler here, let's connect that to the main, and here we are, okay, great, in the next video, we're going to wrap up all of our piping and sprinklers in the classroom areas, and then we will move on to other areas of the building.
