Revit MEP Clash Coordination and System Integration Tutorial

Welcome back to the CAD Teacher VDCI video course content for the BIM 321 course Introduction to Revit MEP. In the previous videos, we went ahead and pretty much connected our entire second floor waste system. In this video here, we're going to go ahead and do a little bit of clash coordination on our own file and also go ahead and tie in both of these items here, the drinking fountains, to the waste system.

We want to go ahead and we need to turn back on our hot and cold water here because of the fact that we may have a clash here. So I'm going to press VV. I'm going to go to my filters and I'm going to check the visibility on for both domestic and hot water, and I'm in my floor plan plumbing here.

Apply, okay. So as you can see, we have a lot of stuff running in here, and remember that we have these pipes that are running vertically. I'm also going to go ahead and take my section and expand it out so I can see exactly what's happening.

We have these pipes that are running vertically. I'm going to bring my section down a little bit too. We have pipes that are running vertically and we have to be able to account for those pipes when we're bringing out our actual waste for this guy here.

So what's going to happen is we're going to bring our waste into these edge walls here and actually run them down the wall as compared to in the shaft, and then we'll pop out the wall and tie in to each other here and then down. But we're going to have to do that over here just because of the fact of these fittings. So I'm going to go ahead.

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I'm going to bring out my one and a quarter inch, change my pipe to waste piping. I will be sloping down. I'm going to go ahead and bring it out and make sure I have enough room for the fittings. I don't think—oh, that'll barely make it, but then I won't be able to turn it down.

So all I'm going to go ahead and do is come back up. I'm going to Control+Z. I'm going to just stub it out there. Then I'm going to come here.

I'm going to go out here. I'm going to choose my waste piping. I'm going to go ahead and bring it out.

Make sure you're not trying to connect to something. I'm going to go ahead and bring this one out, and we'll go ahead and actually just turn that down right there also. We might have to get a little creative with what we're going to do.

That's okay though. So I'm going to go here and I'm going to go ahead. Now as you can see, I have two different pieces.

Well, what's happening is that we're seeing the end of the pipe. So what we need to do is select the lower one, right? We're sloping away.

We want to select the lower one, right click, draw pipe. I'm going to come straight down with this pipe. Remember, I'm in a wall.

So I'm going to come in here down that way. Perfect. Come here, select the pipe.

I'm going to select the lower one, draw pipe, come straight down, and pick. And there we go. If we need to adjust these fittings at all, I'm going to select the pipe.

I'm going to back it up just a little bit so I make sure I'm in the wall. Come here, back up just a little bit, make sure I'm in the wall. Perfect.

Now we've got to figure out how to actually get to this location here. What I'm thinking is that we're going to go ahead and run this guy in the wall laterally, hook up with this one here, and then adjust the pipe size and drop in here. So I'm going to come here, do a right click, draw pipe, I'm going to slope down, and there we are.

Now we need to make sure that these guys are aligned to one another. So I'm going to go to my plan view, press AL, and pick align from here to there, which it is. Now I can take this, draw pipe, and connect them in.

Beautiful. I'm going to go ahead, draw pipe a little bit lower, just like that. And then I'm going to increase the size of this pipe to match this two inch.

So I'm going to select this pipe here and change it from one and a quarter inch to two inch, and that's going to give me the correct fitting there. Now I need to go ahead and be able to take this pipe and route it over to the right, but I need to come out of this wall first, because I'm not going to extend this pipe out. I want to pop out of this wall into this space and then come over.

So I need to go ahead and actually rotate my section. I'm going to select my section, rotate it 90 degrees, and bring it back just a little bit. There we are.

Right click, draw pipe. Again, I'm just seeing farther away, so that's why. There we go.

And now I want to go ahead, I'm going to go back and draw a section off this pipe towards the main. Right click, draw pipe. And there we are.

Let's go ahead and rotate our section back so we can connect this guy up. Rotate 90 degrees. I'm going to drag back a little bit.

Here we are. Beautiful. Now I'm going to go ahead, since I've avoided all those other pipes, I'm going to actually go ahead now and turn off my hot and cold water so I can work with this a little bit easier.

So I'm going to press VV, go to my filters, check off the visibility, apply, and okay. Perfect.

Now I want to go ahead, I'm going to go to my pipe command, because I need to create the tap coming out of this pipe. I'm going to inherit elevation. I'm going to make it a two inch, slope up, because now I'm coming from the main.

So I come from about right here and drag up. Okay. Seeing a segment is drawing from the wrong side, okay, I'm going to hit cancel.

Okay. So again, inherit elevation. I'm going to go ahead.

Let's try this again and see what happens. I'm sloping up as I'm here. There we go.

I'm going to make it a little bit longer. I'm going to over exaggerate it. There it goes.

Now it wants to go. Okay. What I can do is since I know this is going to be the end of this, I'm going to go ahead, select this piece and delete it.

I'm going to take this, remove that connection, and it does not like that. So I'm just going to leave that as is for right now.

And actually no, we're going to go ahead and leave that piece there. So don't go ahead and delete that piece. If you already did, just press Control+Z to step back, and we'll cap the end of that here in a second.

I want to go ahead now. I'm going to align (AL) in my section view, this pipe to this pipe. So I'm going to pick here first here.

Second, there we go. I'm going to go ahead now and actually going to go and align to my plan view AL for plan, pick here and here. And then I'm just going to go back to my section view and trim them up there and there.

And there we go. We've connected the system together. Now, we may need to do a few adjustments because of the fact that we're coming out at the edge of this wall here, which doesn't really work for us per se.

So I'm going to go ahead and we're actually going to redo this section here. We've identified this issue that we can't come out the wall. Well, I know that eventually there'll probably be a cabinet here.

Let's say we're going to submit an RFI and say, 'Hey guys, we need to have a cabinet here to be able to get our plumbing routed.' So what I'm going to actually go ahead and do is I'm going to select delete this fitting. And what's going to happen is I'm going to grab this guy and I'm going to rotate it this direction.

So I'm coming down. I'm going to come out away from the wall just a little bit. Again, I need to check the slope here.

I can also look here. As you can see, my slope didn't change; it was set to zero, which I don't want.

So I'm going to go ahead and select this, select this and delete it. And then just draw a new pipe segment that's at the correct slope. I need to slope down because I'm coming from the fixture again.

There we go. I'm going to come back to my plan view, right click, draw pipe, slope down, come here, come here. I need to go ahead and align those two together again.

So, AL for align, pick here and here. Let me go ahead and align those in plan real quick. So again, I hit escape.

I'm going to restart my align command here and here, escape. And I'm going to go ahead and trim. There we go.

And then I can always go ahead and scoot this back a little bit if I need to. I had to leave enough room for my fittings and everything. And there we are.

We could say that that's going to be an RFI like, 'Hey guys, we need to go ahead and get that done.' So then I'm going to go ahead and slide this guy back. And then I'm going to go ahead, select this end and cap open end.

As you can see, the cap's a little long. So I'm just going to go ahead and bring it back. And there we are.

We've completed the waste system. Let's go ahead and zoom extents on both views. Please go ahead and press Control+S to save your file.

That's going to pretty much conclude it for the plumbing portion of this class. I hope you've got a lot of information. The best way to learn this and understand the quirks of Revit MEP is just to sit and practice with it.

Let's go ahead and take a quick look at our 3D view. So I'm going to go to my 3D view here. It's going to load up.

And as you can see, we have our system. I'm going to go ahead. Let's go ahead and change the detail level to Fine.

So I can better examine this system. As you can see there, I'm actually going to go ahead and turn off the link. So I'm going to press VV, go to Revit links, and turn it off.

So I can really look at this system. Let's go ahead and take a look over here and just take a quick look at it. I'm just orbiting around, taking a quick look at it.

It's looking pretty nice. There might be a couple of things we can go ahead and clean up. I'll stop this video here.

We'll come back, clean them up, and then move on to electrical. See you then.