Discover how to finalize and enhance your digital pipe system, including tips on making minor adjustments, organizing your views, and applying insulation. This article also presents a walkthrough of how to fix pipe connections and manage pipe crossings for an efficient and effective system.
Key Insights
- The article provides step-by-step instructions on how to make minor adjustments to your pipe system. This includes spacing out water lines for easier access and using directional arrows for quick adjustments.
- Insulation is critical to a pipe system, particularly for hot water piping. The author demonstrates how to apply insulation to the whole hot water system in a 3D view, specifying that one inch insulation is used.
- The article emphasizes the importance of checking and fixing pipe connections. It presents a detailed process on how to correct a not 100% correct connection, involving the use of a working section, the split command, and an alignment command.
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In the previous video, we pretty much finished up our system and we talked about how we can change these pipe systems, these piping systems, and change the visual graphics and the overrides of them. What I want to go ahead and do now is we are going to end up, let's take a one look at our system here.
So I'm going to go close my ceiling plumbing view and have my 3D view be all the way across. I'm also going to change it back to fine. And let's just take a look at a couple of things.
I just want to make sure we kind of have everything. So that's all kind of good over there. That's all good.
I think maybe down here, I've got one connection here that is not 100% correct. So I want to try something. We're going to try a little freestyle in here.
Let's see, can I extend that over? No, I can do it in plan though. So this is going to be on my first floor plan. If I go to my first floor plumbing, there we go.
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Let's go to my first floor ceiling. There we go. And it looks like I'm missing a couple of these here.
So I'm just going to go select that, pick there, pick there. Perfect. I think that was really it.
I think one thing I wanted to look at, this was a nice jump over. We were good there. Let's go back to our 3D view.
I just want to check most of our major pipe crossings and make sure that we are good to go. But it looks like we're actually fine. Okay, perfect.
So our system looks pretty good. Overall, everything considered. Let's see.
We could space this out a little bit more. I may want to say, hey, we're going to push this hot, this cold water line over to the right a little bit. And then I could grab this.
You can always do these small minor adjustments just with your directional arrows. So I space that out a little bit there. Just give it a little more breathing room.
And then obviously insulation and things like that. So insulation is actually pretty easy to apply. Let's just talk about that real quick.
The only piping in here that would need insulation would realistically be the hot water piping. And actually I see something right here. So what I want to do is I'm going to fix this really quickly.
So I can kind of fix it here. And let's see here. We've got a couple of things we need to coordinate.
We have the hot or the cold water line. And then we have the sanitary that we're going underneath. So I really what I'm going to end up doing here is I'm going to go to my level one ceiling plan.
Let's grab that working section. And I'm going to take it into that location. Let's take a look here.
Okay. And sometimes I'm going to close some of these other views. Let's give me a window tile.
So I can see all these three views because I kind of want to see exactly what's happening here. So it looks like because the hot water is kind of messing me up. So I'm going to clean this up a little bit here in 3D where it's a little bit easier to read.
And I'm going to delete. I just used the split command and just deleted that portion of the pipe. And then here in my section, take this guy, 45 it up, 45 it up, draw a pipe.
And then I need a 45 back down, draw a pipe, 45 back down. And then I can trim these larger ones. I can trim the appropriate ones together.
I might need to do it in 3D view. I do it in plan view. We can do it here in plan.
There we go. And if I want to tighten this up, I could, I could get this in section. I could be, you know, get this just a really tight transition there.
If I wanted to make sure that those are on the same exact path, I can align that. You can also align the bottoms of the pipe if you wanted to also. So you don't necessarily always have to align the tops or the middles.
You can always use the tab select. Like I was saying earlier, you want to test out that tab select. If I do it, I want the bottom of these pipes to be at the same elevation using that align command tab there, tab there.
And I've aligned the bottom of those pipes, even though they're not the same size, the bottom of that pipe is in the same exact location. Perfect. Okay.
Now let's jump into insulation for a hot minute. So the insulation is actually pretty easy to apply. Insulation can be applied to ducts.
It can be applied to pipes. I'm going to do it here in 3D view. So let me close these other views so you guys can see it.
The only piping system here that we would need to have insulation on would actually go ahead and be the hot water. So what I can do is this is really one of the cool things about being able to tab select. I can tab.
And if you tab again and you tab again, I can select the entire hot water piping. So I've got the entire hot water system. I can just go add insulation.
We want to do one inch. We'll just do one inch insulation. So I have, I've tab selected.
If I hover on a hot water pipe, tab, tab, tab, select here, I can go out to add insulation. As long as I have fittings and everything that, as long as I have items that can have insulation applied, it changes a little bit with mechanical, because when you do that tab, tab, tab, you'll actually get the diffusers. You have to filter those out to be able to add insulation because you can't add insulation to filters or to air diffusers.
If I go add insulation, we'll just do one inch. You could do one and a half, two. I'm going to hit okay.
It's going to take a little bit to do that. There's a lot of things it's adding insulation to, but if I zoom in and I hit escape, you can see, I kind of have, you see when I go to select the pipe, it's there. If I were to go ahead and go into VV, I'm going to go down to pipe.
Let's go to pipe insulations. I'm going to change this transparency to be like 50%. Apply.
Maybe let's change it to like 70. I'm going to go 75. Apply.
So that then you start to see these double lines. And that's kind of showing me that I have insulation on that pipe. That is also in the information of this.
So it has outside diameter. This is still the pipe and insulation should be in here. There it is.
Insulation here at the bottom. So overall size telling me with insulation, the overall size of this is a five inch diameter insulation type fiberglass. And then it gives me the top and bottom of that insulation, which is actually really nice.
They've expanded in recent versions of Revit. They've expanded some of this information. Let's go ahead.
Zoom extends. I'm going to save the file and we've really done a lot of work. There's always more that we can do, but we're going to start getting into the documentation and prepping for the final.
