Explore the process of connecting conduits to panels in Revit MEP as part of the BIM 321 course content. This article provides a step-by-step guide to adjusting, aligning, and connecting conduits, ensuring they are set at the correct height and conform to specific design requirements.
Key Insights
- Revit MEP allows you to adjust the viewing range and detail level of the conduit design, providing an in-depth look at the conduit's placement and connection to panels.
- Adjustments to the conduit's height, size, and alignment are necessary in the design process. Changing dimensions, trimming together conduits, and selecting specific sections can help achieve a precise design.
- The process of connecting conduits to panels involves careful positioning and alignment. The placement of the connection on the panel and the drawing scale are crucial for the successful integration of the conduits.
Welcome back to the CAD Teacher VDCI video course content for the BIM 321 course Introduction to Revit MEP. In the previous video, we went ahead and got all of our conduit dialed in, and so what I want to go ahead and do now is to start connecting it to the panels, and it's kind of a weird thing, but it's a fairly easy process. What I want to go ahead and do is let's go ahead and hop down to our floor plan level one.
There we go. I'm going to go ahead and open that all the way up, I'm going to go ahead and zoom extents, and then close my hidden windows. Now, as you can tell, my conduit is not showing at full height right now, so I'm going to go ahead and select this guy back, and I'm going to go ahead now and actually turn my detail level to fine, and then go ahead and make it also wireframe.
Perfect. There we are. I'm going to go ahead and bring my section over, and there's going to be a couple things that we're going to have to do here.
We need to adjust these just a little bit because we did make those inch and a half conduits a little bit larger. There we go. And this is going to be kind of an interesting thing, so I'm going to go ahead and select this back, and I'm going to just select all of these guys back, and we'll see what we can do here.
We may have to change this just based on the fact of how this is going to have to tie in. We may not be able to do this 45 here, because you see where my fittings are? When I try and turn this down, it's not going to like that. So I'm going to go ahead and do a rotate on my section, go 90 degrees, and then I'm going to go ahead and just see just this last one here.
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I'm going to go ahead and let's double click into our section and go window tile. There we are. So here are all of our conduit, right? So this is the one I want to work on, and if I try and draw a conduit and bring this down, it's not going to allow me to actually bring it down before, and again it's just being a pain, it's not going to allow me to bring it down to where I can drop it into the panel because the fittings don't work.
So this is what we're going to have to do. I'm actually going to remove these 45s because they do not work, and I'm going to remove the fittings also. This is one of these things that we have to go through in sometimes the design process.
And there we are. If for some reason you can't see the conduit, right now what's happening is my view range is set to a specific way. If I were to go and look at my view range, let's see here, as you can see, it's fine.
The top of it is level above level 2, so I'm seeing up to that area. And since these are not above level 2, I can see them. Now I'm just going to go ahead and trim these together to make them straight bends.
So I'm just trimming the conduit together, and there we are. Now I should be able to take these guys down, and again it's just this conduit being weird. There we go.
Now I should be able to bring this against the wall here, just like that. Now I'm going to go ahead and let's go ahead and connect this in. I'm going to drag down, and you notice it changes me into a different mode.
It's trying to tell me, okay, where do I want to place the connection on here. So I'm going to go ahead and select here, and I'm going to go ahead and let's make this 1 foot 8, and that's outside the panel. So what I'm really doing is I'm looking at the top of the panel right now.
So I'm going to make it 1 foot 6, I'm going to go ahead and make this 2 inches, and finish connection. And it's not really liking it, so all I'm going to go ahead and do is, I'm not really going to worry about placing it in a specific location. I'm just going to go ahead, drag down, connect it, finish connection, and I connected it to that panel.
I'm going to go ahead and bring this guy, and I'm going to do my dimension, so I can have my 2 inches correctly, and we'll have to go a little larger on those larger conduit. I'm going to go ahead and change my drawing scale so I can actually see the dimensions to a half inch equals a foot, or an inch and a half equals a foot. I'm going to go ahead and select this guy here, let's change that to 2 inches.
Again, draw out and down, I'm going to go ahead now align it in this view, and then I can drag it down, and again I need to pull my section back just a little bit, and I'm going to go ahead and reduce the amount I can see, so I can just see that one conduit, so I can make sure I'm getting the correct snaps. There we go, finish connection. I can go ahead here, and I'm going to select this guy, change it to 2 inches, that went a little bit too far, and it looks like I missed that dimension there for some reason, it's gone, so I'm going to go back and redo my dimensioning.
Select this guy, 2 inches, I'm going to go ahead and suck my section back just a little bit, and it's just one of these things you kind of have to get used to, it's kind of a conduit is one of the more frustrating items in Revit MEP. I want to go ahead, I'm going to see both those conduits and align it, so AL, align with the center line, there we go, and it didn't want to give me that, that's why I need to change my section, so I can only see that specific guy there, and bring it down. Finish connection.
One thing I'm going to go ahead and do is, I'm actually going to get all of these aligned together correctly first, before I keep going on. So I'm going to redo my dimension here, DI for dimension, and I'm going to get all the center lines, I'm going to go ahead, go into my view here, go all the way down, and so I can see all the conduit that I need to. I'm going to select the conduit here, come over to the other view, and then it's going to give me the correct grips, there we go, select the conduit here, come over to this view, it's going to keep that one selected, so now I can go ahead and just draw them out.
Selecting this view, come here, right click, draw conduit, that's a very quick and effective way of actually getting what I need to get. Select here and here, draw a conduit, go down, select here, right click, draw a conduit, go down, I know it looks like a jumbled mess right now, but we're going to align it all up in a second, and instead of doing it in the section view, I'm going to go ahead and do it in plan view. So I'm going to draw my detail line again by going DL, and I can choose this midpoint here and drag over, and I need to turn on my
center line, so I'm going to go VV, I'm going to go into my conduits, and turn on the center line, and hit apply, and okay, there we go.
I'm now going to align to here, and all these conduits, it's going to make it a lot faster and a lot more simple. I'm going to go ahead, I don't want to delete the section, I just want to delete my detail line. I'm going to go ahead real quickly, and let me get my dimensions correct, so select this guy here, and what I could do is I could select this, and I'm going to lock these other dimensions, so all of these conduits will move over with it.
So I'm going to select this here, change this to 2 inches, and since I locked all those other dimensions, they all move with it. I'm going to unlock these ones here, and I'm going to select this guy, and I want to go ahead and give this 2.5 inches, I'm going to select here, 2.5 inches, and there we are. Beautiful.
I'm going to go ahead and unlock everything, and then delete the dimension. Now I'm just going to suck it down so I can see only one conduit, drag that down, finish connection. I'm going to go ahead, move my section, again, I only want to see the one conduit, drag it down, finish connection, come down, only want to see the one conduit, drag it down, finish connection, and I might need to hit escape after it.
Select here, drag it down, finish connection, and I believe that should be all of them. We got one more. Right click, and then actually just drag it down.
Again, it's going to pop me to that top view, finish connection. And so now all of those are tied in to that. I want to go ahead and we're going to go and actually do this next one.
So I'm going to stop this video here, and we're going to have to figure out a way to bring these in and loop them around without getting too crazy there. I'll go ahead. See you then.
