Discover how to efficiently manage and adjust your project's piping connections using the Trim Extend Multiple Elements feature. This guide will take you through the process of optimizing your workflow by enhancing your mastery of project management tools.
Key Insights
- The Trim Extend Multiple Elements feature allows you to select one source to extend to, enabling more efficient handling of piping connections in your project.
- Copying to Clipboard is a handy function that permits the copying of items within the same view. It also enables you to switch views while maintaining the copied items, providing more flexibility in managing your project.
- Revit MEP is a tool that can be used for repetitive tasks. Although it may seem monotonous, the efficiency it provides in managing project details and making connections to the actual pipe system is undeniable.
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It's real simple to go ahead and take care of these connections. I'm just gonna go ahead, hit escape. And what I can go ahead and do is I can use this Trim Extend Multiple Elements.
I'm gonna go ahead and save my project. Let it save, might take a minute. And the Trim Extend Multiple Elements, what it allows me to go ahead and do is that it allows me to pick one source I want to extend to.
So let's say the hot water. And then I can say whichever pipes I wanna go. So I wanna take this one out there.
Sometimes this end condition doesn't really work too terribly well, but that's okay. And then I'm gonna go here, here. And you can see it's already putting in my connections.
So it knows the difference between those two. And there we go. I'm gonna do the same down here.
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I'm gonna pick here, there, there, there, there. And just keep going. Oops, I accidentally clicked the wrong one.
That's okay, you can just undo. And then you just have to re-select it. In an end condition such as this, what I might end up doing is I might just do a trim as that.
And then the trim allows me to bring that there. Perfect. I'm gonna go back to my Trim Extend Multiple here.
There's that, going around. Oh, I didn't click off. As you know, we do not want that pipe to do that.
So I'm gonna hit Escape to restart the command. Go back to Trim Extend Multiple Elements. Pick there, pick there.
Keep going around. Perfect. One last couple of ones here.
I'm gonna use that trim command there. And then Trim Extend Multiple here to here. Great.
Now what I'm gonna go ahead and do is I need to get a copy of this up to the second floor. So what I'm gonna go ahead and do is I'm just gonna take like this one here. I can go ahead.
And that's okay if I select all of this and then I delete some items when I get up to the top. So I'm gonna go ahead, take that. I'm gonna go Copy to Clipboard.
I'm gonna actually copy to Clipboard this time. The original copy command, that allows me to copy items within the same view. But if I switch views, it won't allow that to happen.
So I need to copy it to the Clipboard. I'm gonna go to my Ceiling 2 plumbing. And in this instance, I know I have them stacked.
So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go Paste, Align to Current View. So I have it on my Clipboard. I'm gonna go Paste, Align to Current View.
Pick. And there we go. You may notice that I'm getting some weird single line stuff.
I'm gonna go ahead and change my detail level here to be fine so I can see everything. And I need to go ahead and clean this up a little bit. So I'm just gonna drag a window here and delete the extra fittings and everything.
And then what I'm gonna end up doing is I'm gonna Tab, Click, Tab, Click. And I'm gonna take this and copy it around now like we did on the previous one. So Copy.
Use the center line of the wall. Come around. Come all the way down.
Let's go to the upper. And we just keep going around. What I'm gonna go ahead and do is again, paste one off to the side.
Just kind of wherever for right now. And hit Escape. I'm gonna select these.
Rotate. 180 degrees. Just like what we did on the first floor.
Again, I need to move this. I can't just drag it. It doesn't want to move in every direction.
And then I can go Copy. Center line of the wall. And just work my way.
I know it seems kind of monotonous, but that's kind of the belly of the beast here when we're working with this Revit MEP. Sometimes there are very repetitive tasks, but that's why we wanted to get that guy set properly and then we'll go ahead Insert to make these connections. So here I can go ahead and trim there to there.
And trim here to here. I'm gonna go ahead. Trim Extend Multiple.
There. And I'm just gonna go for all the red ones along this pipe here. Pick on the pipe you want to extend to.
Click on the pipe to extend. And I could do the cold here while I'm down here rather than going up. Again, I'm just making the connections to the actual pipe system.
Click off. I'm gonna do Trim on this end one first. And then I'm gonna do the multiple, the Trim Extend Multiple.
Let's go with cold water first. Again, make sure you're only picking the cold waters when you're extending these. Oops, I accidentally got the hot water.
You can just undo. And then you'll just have to pick your one you want to extend to again. And then go from there.
I'm gonna do my hots. Do-do-do. Almost done.
And I think we are there. Let's take a look at it in 3D. I'm gonna go to my 3D view.
And as you can see, and we can make some, maybe make some adjustments. I'm not gonna worry too much about it right now. You can see that we've, it's given us 45s here.
It's given us some straight up 90s here if we wanted to. But we'll go ahead and just have both those conditions being shown. And there we go.
I'm gonna unpause this video here. We'll come back. We'll continue working forward.
See you then.
