Explore the complexities of the CAD Teacher VDCI course content for the BIM 321 course, Introduction to Revit MEP, focusing on the placement of insulation in a project. Gain a deeper understanding of the steps involved, from cleaning up the project to applying insulation on hot water piping and ducts.
Key Insights
- The Revit MEP course imparts knowledge on how to place cable trays and insulate different parts of a project, with an emphasis on insulating hot water piping and ducts.
- Insulation is often added towards the end of a project after the entire pipe system has been set up. This process involves selecting the entire pipe run and choosing the insulation type and thickness.
- Revit MEP provides the ability to add or remove insulation based on project specifications. However, changes made later on in the project, such as deleting and adding new sections, will not automatically have the insulation.
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 placed our cable tray into the project. At this point, we're pretty much done.
We're pretty close. There's a couple more things that I would like to review and possibly go over real quickly. So the first thing I want to go ahead and talk about is insulation.
A lot of times in a project, you'll have insulation, you'll have insulation on pipes, on ducts, and we're not going to put it on everything, but I want to go ahead and place some insulation on our hot water piping. So what I'd like for you to go ahead and do is please, on your Project Browser, let's go ahead and scroll down and go down to Plumbing and let's find our First Floor Ceiling Plumbing Plan. There we go.
And let's go ahead and clean this up just a little bit. So I'm going to type VV. I want to go ahead, turn off Cable Tray Fittings.
I'm also going to go ahead and turn off Data Devices. I'm going to turn off anything related to Ducts. I'm going to turn off all Electrical information.
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I'm going to go ahead and leave my lighting fixtures. I'm going to turn off Lighting Devices though. I think everything else there is good.
So I'm going to go ahead and hit apply and hit okay. And we've cleaned it up. If I needed to clean up other stuff here, I could select it here, right click, Hide in View > Category, select here, right click, Hide in View > Category, select here, and I cannot hide these in the view because if I hide this, it's going to hide my hot water.
I'm also going to go ahead and actually go select right here, Hide in View > Category, select here, right click, Hide in View > Category. There we are. Now that we're looking at this, we need to go ahead and apply some insulation to this pipe.
And the reason why I kind of waited until the very end to apply insulation is because of the fact that we wanted to get the entire pipe in there and then run the insulation. So I'm going to go ahead and select here. I'm going to select, I'm going to tab select.
So I select the entire pipe system. So I select all the pipes. So tab, tab, tab, and it's selecting the entire system there.
So again, tab, there we go. I'm going to go ahead now and go add insulation. We could choose an insulation type, a PVC jacketed fiberglass or standard fiberglass.
I'm going to just go ahead and choose standard fiberglass. And let's just leave the thickness at one inch. I hit okay, and it's going to apply insulation to all that length of pipe and the fittings.
And that's all it is. So go ahead and apply that insulation quickly. All you do is you tab select the entire pipe run.
And then once I do that, I could go to add insulation. I can also remove insulation up here, all that good stuff. I'm going to hit escape.
I'm going to go ahead, and I'm just going to show you the duct real quick. I'm not going to have us do it, but I'm going to go to my ceiling plan mechanical. And say I wanted to insulate the air coming like the supply air.
I would tab-select, and I could select everything from there. I could do a duct insulation or duct lining. And it's exactly the same process.
I would go add insulation. I could do a duct wrap one inch, or I could do duct lining, add lining, and then it would be Fiberglass Board, Textile, or whatever I need, thickness one inch. And then we can go from there.
So depending on your project specifications, you can add or remove insulation. But remember, if you make any changes later on down the road, say I delete a section and I add a new section, that area will not have the insulation. We've pretty much completed this model.
What I'd like for you to go ahead and do is let's go ahead, press Control+S, and save the file. I'm going to go ahead, let's take a look at our 3D view, and look at all the work we've put in. I'm actually going to go ahead and turn off the link.
So I'm going to go VV. I'm going to go ahead, go to my Revit links and uncheck, and hit apply, and hit okay. And here is all the information that we've placed in.
We've placed a lot of information into this model, and it's actually a very clean, well-done model. So I hope you guys are happy with what you've done here. If you want to add anything or go back and adjust anything, feel free to.
If you want to adjust some lights, change some things, make other modifications like that, move some ducts around, by all means, feel free to play around with this program. It's a very powerful program. It's a very good program for us to use, and it provides a lot to the industry.
I've enjoyed walking you through this. I hope that you've enjoyed the class, and I hope that you continue to use Revit MEP as a very great design tool. Hope everything is good.
See you later.
