Learn how to manage and assign unattended items in your system browser while using Revit. This guide explains the simple process of assigning items to their appropriate circuits to ensure a tidy and organized system browser.
Key Insights
- Revit has tools that allow you to select and view unassigned items in your system. You can highlight and identify the location of these items within the plans.
- Once an item is highlighted and located, you can access its properties to assign a load name and set its panel. The process can be repeated for all unassigned items to ensure they are properly assigned and organized.
- It's important to note that while assigning all unmanaged items can make for a neater system browser, it's okay to leave a few items unassigned if you are unsure of their placement.
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As we wrap up our level one and level two power plans, we might notice that we still have some unattended items in our system browser. For example, I have an unnamed circuit and I have some unassigned items, but that's not a problem. Revit has some tools to help me assign these items, figure out where they're located in the plans.
First off, if I simply click one of the unnamed circuits, they will highlight in the plan. But let's say I'm zoomed in somewhere over here and don't see it. I can select it, right click and select show.
And it might open up another view, but that's okay. We can click show. For example, this time it opened up the electrical analysis and every time I click the show button, it takes me to a different plan.
So I click show again. Now I'm back on the L1 power plan. Once I'm happy with knowing where it is, what it is, I can click close.
I don't have to keep clicking show and I have it selected here. What's weird though, is I don't get all of the properties and that's okay. Sometimes I'll click off of it.
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Once I know where it is, hover over one of the outlets, hit TAB and click. And now I have all of the properties. For example, I can give it a load name, receptacle and I can set its panel PB.
We're on level one. So this is PB3 in this case. And there we go.
And now I have all of my circuits assigned. I still have my 17 items up here. So let's open that up.
They're electrical power and here they are. And many things not assigned. I can do the same process.
If I click on them, they will highlight in the plan, but they can be kind of hard to see. So what I can do is right click and go to show. And it'll open up in a view.
This one's on level two. So this is not assigned. I haven't done my bathroom yet.
I just missed it. So what I can do is go ahead and grab these items. And that's pretty simple.
My restroom, I can see that I just forgot to assign these. I can click the power button. We're on level two now.
So I can set this to PB4 and the load name receptacle, and I'm good to go. But I still have some others here. Now I don't want to assign the main distribution.
Remember, that is kind of where we're starting from, but I can keep looking for all of the other items. Right click show. Okay, so here's this one.
It's in periodicals. I forgot to add this to a circuit. So I can simply go through and assign a circuit.
I actually noticed in my handout, I didn't put a circuit line here. So that's my bad. I'm going to hold control, grab all of these office ones there, and I will add those to a circuit.
We'll hit the power button. We're on level one. We'll go back to panel board three, PB3, call it receptacle, and we're good.
We have just a couple more to go. Here's one in the gym, and let's add that to a circuit. So I'll hit the power button right here.
Actually, I don't want to hit the power button. That'll create a whole new circuit. What I want to do is grab the existing circuit, hit TAB.
It's right here. I know it wants to connect. So I'll simply click edit circuit, add to circuit, click on that one, and I'm good.
Okay, let's see what else we have. Right click show, close once I find it. Okay, that's in the counselor office.
So I have this guy here. I'm on level two right now. So let's see what else is not selected.
That one right here looks like these three. Those two are just right part of this counselor reception area. I'll hit TAB right here, select, and if I'd like, I can simply add, edit the circuit, add to circuit, add these two, and we're good there.
I've got one more. It's a floor outlet. Let's right click and show.
Okay, that's right there. And this reception area just wasn't added in. I can hover over, hit my select on my mouse, and I can edit the circuit, click finish editing.
And now everything is assigned except for the main distribution board, which I want to leave on assigned. Everything's good. And we can see how nice and tidy that system browser can be.
Now I would say, don't let this drive you nuts. If there's something that you're not sure where it belongs, it's okay to leave a couple things or a few things unassigned. But that is a process we go through to try to make sure everything possible is assigned a circuit board and a circuit.
