Discover how to create and adjust pipe fittings in a detailed, step-by-step guide. In this article, you'll learn about the process of adding plumbing fittings, rotating and adjusting them, and dealing with potential alerts and issues that may arise.
Key Insights
- This guide walks you through creating and adjusting pipe fittings, with a focus on adding plumbing fittings to a design. The process involves selecting the pipe fitting, creating it and then manipulating it to the desired position.
- During the fitting process, you may encounter alerts related to coordination monitoring. These alerts generally indicate that the families are drawn in a different location. The author suggests adjusting the locations as necessary.
- The article provides insights into adjusting the elevation of pipes, which can be done at any stage of the process. It also touches on managing snap points and preventing unnecessary connections to other pipes.
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In the previous video, we went ahead and finished up our labs. And actually, I forgot to put some plumbing fittings on here.
So let's do that real quick. So pipe fittings, I'm going to go up here to pipe fitting. I'm going to go create my, there we go.
Spin this guy around. And I kind of don't like it, how that little round, the little flip thing, it moves when I spin this, but it is what it is. So there we go.
There's that escape, escape. Perfect. So there we go.
And then I want to go ahead and move on to my other sinks here. So I'm going to take that same working section. I'm going to take it.
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I'm going to rotate it 90 degrees. Let's go ahead. I'm going to come over to here.
And this one, I kind of want to be able to see, I know that I have all these four fixtures and everything. So what I can go ahead and do is we can also kind of go ahead and fix some of these. I guess some of these just didn't come in the right location and that's fine.
So as we go through and do this, I'm going to move these guys and you're going to get a little coordination monitoring alert. And really what that is, is that the families are drawn in the different location. So you can also just do this.
I can do, that's just going to make that alert pop a few times. Apologize for the sound there, potentially you may have a warning sound or something along those lines pop up, but there we are. So I can go ahead and do, go through the same exact thing.
So again, we have our connectors. So I'm going to come here, domestic cold, boom, boom, boom, hot, do the same exact thing. And then here I'm going to do, this is a one and a half inch.
I'm going to do that zero space three. And then I'm going to move on to my next one and we will continue on. Okay.
Go down over, make sure not to click on the connection to the other, the vent piper or the waste pipe. You want to make sure that we don't have that happen. I'm going to go through and do all these connectors first, and then we'll come back and put on the, the pipe fitting for the P trap.
So there we go. And keep going around. Again, it doesn't really matter the order in which you do these.
I mean, if you want to get specific with it, you could do type in the six inches there. The other thing I could do is I could also adjust the height of the pipe later on. So I'll show you guys that in the next one.
Here we go. We're going to have the two pipes here. So I'm going to hit PF for my plumbing fitting, my pipe fitting again, get there, rotate it, spin it.
Same thing here. Rotate spin. Oh, this one's actually going to pop up in the right location.
That's kind of nice. So that might've been something that we could have done on the opposite plan is if we rotated the section and came at it from the other direction. Well, we might not have had to spend these.
So, but there we go. There's all four. I'm going to go ahead, come back over to here and let's go to the next bank.
Again, I kind of need to move some of these just a little bit. There we go. Those are good.
We're going to go through and do the same exact thing. Zero space three. What I could do here is with the hot and cold water, I could put these, what I was meaning earlier is I could put these at any elevation that I want.
Oops. I accidentally clicked on that pipe there. So that's what can happen if you click on any of those pipe snaps is it wants to snap to that pipe.
But what I mean here is I can come back to this and take this and change this middle elevation to zero space, six inches. Oh, actually I needed, I don't want to go six inches below. So what we need to go ahead and do is we know that that is like three feet.
So I'm going to change this to actually be two foot six. And there we go. So I come up with the middle elevation of whatever that pipe wants to be.
So here come down. And I, if I knew that I wanted all of those pipes to be at two foot six, there we go. I can come here to space six.
And there we go. And take both of these, put them at two space, six, continue working around. There we are with that zero space three.
I kind of like, I don't like how necessarily how long that temporary dimension value is off the screen, but that's just kind of how Revit is generating it. I can't see necessarily what I'm typing. I just know that I'm typing three inches.
So two space, six for that elevation. And there we go. Let's move on to the next bank.
We'll keep working our way through. Again, it looks like I need to adjust some of these sinks. It doesn't necessarily want to snap.
I'm going to go ahead and go through and do. But you know what? It's good practice. So continue going through, use the connector.
There's that. Oh, I don't want that angle. And I got a little ahead of myself.
