This article provides a detailed step-by-step guide on how to adjust and align mechanical ceiling tube pipes. It highlights the importance of careful measurement and placement to avoid pipe clashing, ensuring the system works as intended.
Key Insights
- The article discusses the importance of adjusting the height and position of the pipes in a ceiling tube mechanical system to avoid clashing. The larger pipes are positioned first, followed by the smaller ones.
- The use of the 'drop pipe' command is explained as a way of connecting pipes together. Attention is given to ensure that pipes are not only aligned but also that they do not conflict with each other when connected.
- The article also explains how to use the 'split' command to divide a pipe into two sections, and how to then manipulate these sections individually. This allows for further customization and fine-tuning of the pipe layout within the system.
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Let's go back to our ceiling tube mechanical. Seems like we may need to pull that back a little bit just so I can see the pipes that are here. I think I need to go a little bit higher.
Take these pipes just a little bit taller just so I can see them on my ceiling tube mechanical. So they're kind of small to see because again they're small pipes. But what I want to do is I want to take the larger one, right click, drop pipe, come over to here.
Let's see is it going to want to line up? No, that's okay. We're just going to get these kind of close. And then this guy here, well it seems like these are in the same plane now.
We want to make sure that they're not going to be clashing and we'll just adjust them here. Drop pipe, come over, there's an intersection. And what I wanted to do is I want to tie these two together.
Well we don't want that to happen. So I'm actually, what I'm going to end up doing is I'm going to drag this guy just a little bit outside of it. So I selected it, dragged it outside.
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And then I'm going to go here, drop pipe, come over, and for whatever reason I wanted to tie it in there. That's okay. And there we go.
So let's take a look at that in 3D. We have our two pipes. There we go.
If I take that section, so I went back to my ceiling mechanical, I'm going to take this section, rotate it 90 degrees, pull this up. And let's see here. Great.
So I want to tie the thin one together with the other thin one. Boom. And now can I trim the larger one? Nope.
It doesn't want to because again, it's not necessarily aligned. We'll go back to our ceiling mechanical plan. And let's see if I can do AL, I can pick that center line and I can pick the center line of the pipe.
Boom. And then I could trim it like that. See if that wanted to work.
That might not have worked as we intended. Let's see. It definitely did.
We're good. If I undid this, see now that I aligned them. So let me go back a couple of steps here.
So these two were aligned, so I couldn't just use my trim command to pull these together. So I went AL for aligned. I picked the center line of this pipe in vertical, and then I picked the center line of the pipe here.
Then in my section, I'm just going to come in here, trim, make sure you get the right pipe because these are kind of in line with one another and go there. The other thing you could do too is I could drag this section up farther. So I'm only seeing this pipe.
Remember this line of the section marker dictates where the section cut is happening. If I double click now, I don't see the other pipe. Perfect.
Let's go ahead. Let's take a look at everything. I want to go into my 3D view.
I think the only thing we want to go ahead and kind of clean up is maybe clean up exactly how this guy is all working because right now they're kind of clashing. So what I'm going to end up doing is I'm going to go split and I'm going to pick on the smaller pipe. I split it in two locations and I'm going to separate this system for right now.
I'm going to delete the unions and then on my roof plan, if I go to my roof plan, let's switch this to fine so I can see what I'm looking at here. I'm going to grab this pipe and I'm going to drag it out. So see how I dragged that out there.
And then what I'm going to end up doing is I'm just going to draw in drop pipe. It's going to bank off and say a 45 here and trim that together. So again, what I ended up doing is I did my split.
I deleted the portions of the split. I went back to my roof plan. So I have a little gap here and I just grabbed this piece and I just dragged it out.
There we go. I'm going to take this guy, right click, drop pipe, come over 45 over. And there we are.
I could, if I wanted to, I could align these drops. I can bring that, like say back to here so that those drops are in the same place. But everything there is, it's looking good.
I might decide that, hey, I want to move these off the wall a little bit more. Let's see. Let's get all the way through.
There we go. Let's take a peek in 3D. We're looking good.
Very nice. Great. So that was kind of the last step that we needed to do for the modeling effort.
Moving to the next series of videos, we'll start talking about annotating and creating some information on the drawings. But in this video, we went ahead and piped in this, our, our refrigerant lines. Again, pipes operate very similar to ducts.
They have routing preferences. And let's take a look at those real quick before we finish off on this. But if I select the pipe, we just have pipe type standard.
If I hit edit type, I have routing preferences. So you can see, I can go edit routing preferences, edit. So the pipe segment is copper K. That's what the type of pipe is, copper.
And then you have all of these elbows, T's, junctions and everything. Very similar to how ducks are with their sizing. I have different segments and sizes that I can load here.
I can have a minimum size. If I knew that my popper, my copper pipe, excuse me, did not want to go below say a half inch, I could set a minimum size or I'm going to have a max size. And that could also be dictated by the pipe manufacturer.
And I can input that information in a Revit. So people aren't creating pipes that aren't able to be created. You can also go into the segments and sizes, and then you can say what the nominal size is.
So the quarter inch nominal has an inner diameter or ID of five sixteenths of an inch, and an outer diameter of three eighths. It could be checked for using size list used in sizing, so on and so forth what the rough is, there's a whole bunch of pipe types already listed in Revit for you. So you can always get into that as you want.
Hit okay. Hit okay. Hit okay.
And there we go. I'm going to go ahead and stop this video here and I'll see you in the next one.
