Discover how to tie hot and cold water lines into a sanitary system in a 3D view, beginning with aligning the system's elements. Familiarize yourself with the techniques of using the align tool and the importance of aligning these elements for future connection of these systems.
Key Insights
- When working with sanitary systems, the next step after setting up the system and connecting toilets and sinks is aligning the hot and cold water lines. This process is carried out in a 3D view.
- The align tool is used to line up the center lines of the pipes in the system. This alignment is a critical step before moving forward as it ensures the pipes are correctly positioned for future connection.
- It is essential to ensure that the proper lines are selected for alignment. Double-checking and being attentive during the alignment process is important to avoid major issues down the line.
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In the previous video, we finished up setting up our sanitary system and putting in some connections for our toilets and also our sinks. Now we need to go ahead and start tying in those systems all together.
And what we're going to do is we're going to start with the hot and cold water lines. So I'm here in my 3D view. If you're not in your 3D view, go ahead and navigate to that.
You also might have a section box active. So you may want to just go ahead and uncheck that just so you can take a look at the entire system as we have it. We're going to start with the hot and cold water systems.
It's pretty simple to go ahead and actually put those in. We've done a lot of work with regard to the different systems that we have here. It's been a lot of work and we still have a bit to do here, but let's go ahead and get started.
So the first thing I'm going to go and do is I'm going to hop to my plumbing one view, my plumbing one floor plan. And as you can see here, you can see both our sanitary lines and hot and cold water lines because we've adjusted the view range so that we can see above and below. What I'm going to do is I'm going to zoom in here.
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Now, one thing when we first place these, the drops that we have for the hot and cold water, we weren't a hundred percent sure exactly where those are going to be. We just wanted to get them in the model and that's fine. But now that we actually have some locations, I want to start to align these items so that we can go ahead and actually get them squared away.
So as you can see, I have the P-trap that I placed here. I have a hot water line and a cold water line. Well, it's really simple to get these online.
I can just use the align tool. So A-L for align. I'm going to uncheck multiple align here because I don't need to do multiple alignments.
And I can just pick on the center line of the pipe I want to align to. And then I'm going to pick on the center line of the pipe I want to align. Boom.
Since it's just a straight drop like that, it'll move everything. So again, I'm going to go to my hot water line, click on the center line there, pick, click on this here, pick, boom. And it aligned that over.
Now, if I want to align the sanitary, I should be able to do that. So I'm going to go ahead and I could actually pick this center line actually works pretty well. So I could pick the center line there, and then I'm going to pick the center line here.
Boom. And it makes that all nice. So I'm going to work through the model and get all of those in line.
So pick the center line here, center line there. This one's going to move a little farther, but it's perfectly fine. Now I'm just going to go through and line it all up.
And we could probably just do either side as we want. So again, center line, center line, that one was already aligned. If you have a little crossover like that, that's fine.
What I can go ahead and do is just align them to the proper sides. There we go. And I'm just going to work my way around the model.
Make sure you get that center line though. And you can align these and I actually aligned the wrong ones. That's fine.
Let's see here. Let me back up here and let's get the right ones in the right spot. So make sure you get the center line.
The biggest thing with this is, is that you want to make sure that you get the proper line that you want to align to. So here, I want to align here to here. So I'm aligning to the sink connections.
There we go. Come on up over here. This one was pretty close.
Pick that center line and my waistline was already aligned. Nice. Sometimes you might find it where some of them are really far off.
You might find it where some of them are really close. But you do want to do the alignment regardless, just because having them aligned is a key thing to go ahead and connect all these systems later on. So I know it kind of seems like repetitive, but let's go ahead and work our way around.
Let me keep going and keep going. There we go. You may run into some issues if you have really, really small transitions or something like that.
You may run into some issues where it doesn't want to go. I'm going to go down to these other classrooms here. And you're going to have to kind of work that out and potentially redraw, say, your sanitary line.
But for the most part, I think we left enough room. One of the things that you kind of want to think about when you're laying this all out is you do want to think about how are you going to be addressing it later on and connecting it into the systems. So you kind of want to draw this so that you have a large portion to go ahead and use.
Let's see if I can tab. There we go. And you might, if they're overlapping with one another, you might need to tab select to get that center point.
There we go. There it is. And that alignment shouldn't be messing with your slope piping at all.
It should work just perfectly fine. But you can always go back and double check if you'd like to. I'm going to keep working my way around.
