Explore the complex process of refining systems in both section and plan views, beginning with the specific example of working with urinals. Understand the vital steps of alignment, trimming, connecting, and sloping as part of the detailed plumbing process.
Key Insights
- It's crucial to work with both section and plan views while refining a system, as it allows for better alignment and understanding of the structure's overall configuration.
- Alignment in both plan and section is essential while making connections in a plumbing system, especially when dealing with urinals. Specific adjustments, such as sloping down a quarter inch over a foot, ensure the system functions correctly.
- During the process, it may be necessary to adjust the entire system or parts of it, such as moving the pipeline or raising the water line, to ensure everything aligns and fits together properly.
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We're going to continue refining our system here. So what I want to go ahead and do is start with the urinals to get started with.
What's going to end up happening is that we're going to be working in both section and plan views. It is kind of helpful to have both of those up. So wherever you may have your working section, I'm going to go ahead and take this guy.
I'm going to rotate it 90 degrees because I want to be looking at these perpendicular, and then I'm going to take it over to here. And I believe that this first one is already connected, but let's take a peek. So let's get our section going.
Let's go ahead and double-click into our section, go to View, WT for the window tile. So I can see both in plan and section. And you can see that first one—I don't necessarily understand why this is popping up.
It could just be a visual thing with a cut range or something because it's showing green here, like it's connected, and then in this one, it's not. So what I'm going to do real quickly is I'm just going to disconnect this guy.
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If we had what is like this here, right? We have our little piece of pipe coming back and we want to make this connection. What I'm going to end up doing is I'm going to draw—I can look at my connectors here, and I'm going to draw this out. So here, come down, and if it wants to align and snap, that's great.
And then I want to make sure I'm sloping down though. So slope down, we're going to go a quarter inch per foot. There we are.
Now, when I'm looking at this in section, I can now align this here to here. You also want to make sure they're aligned in plan, and then you can just trim them together. There we go.
On to the next one. I'm going to come back to here. So I'm going to come here, click on the out, and it doesn't have to be perfect.
I'm just going to go down like that. And then what I need to go ahead and do is I need to align it in plan and section. You want these to be shorter than one another.
So what's going to end up happening is I'm going to actually slice these a little bit so I can align here to here. And then in plan, if I can get the center line—let me change this to wireframe. It might work a little nicer to work in wireframe—here to here.
Now, this is kind of where it gets a little tricky. I need to move this entire system down this pipeline a little bit. So I might move it to where I can get it close there first.
And then I will align because sometimes all the fittings may not want to work. There we go. Aligned in plan and section.
And boom, there we go. Go to this last urinal here. So again, I'm going to come down, click, make sure I'm sloping down, click.
And sometimes I don't really worry about this depth because I know that I'm going to be aligning it later on. Let me go ahead and split this guy and split this guy so that they're a little shorter than one another. AL for align here to here.
And then I'm going to come here in plan, here to here. Let's see, does it want to do it? No, we're going to need to move this guy again. I'm just going to select these pieces, slide them down the line, and let's try that again.
So sometimes, to make these systems always work, there's always a little bit of perfect refinement that has to be done. And there we go. We finished the urinals there.
I'm going to come down to the other—let's go up to the second floor. Look at the second-floor plumbing.
So you can see here, and this one is connected already. So that looks good. I'm going to come here.
Let's go to this, come down, slope down, over. I'm going to align in section and then align in plan and then trim up. And there we go.
Come over to here. Do that. And some of them may have automatically connected when we drew that first pipe in.
I'm thinking that's what happened. So let's align in section. And then we want to switch this over to wireframe so I can see everything and then align in plan and then trim together.
Perfect. So let's take a look in 3D at our plumbing stack here. It's looking nice.
We have the toilets connected and the urinals tied in, and we will continue to work on the next steps, which will be—actually, you know, let's do this real quick. Let's go ahead and connect the hot and cold water. So I'm going to go back to this section.
If I look at this cold water, boom, and I need to come up and out with it. I want no slope on these. And we may want to raise that water line just a little bit.
So let's see, what is this value here? So this is three foot two. Let's make this three foot three. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to raise this water line to three foot three.
There we go. And then I can just tie these guys directly into that. Let's see.
