In this tutorial, you will learn how to draw conduits in Revit MEP and tie them into different panels in the BIM 321 course, Introduction to Revit MEP. The lesson provides detailed instructions on how to draw the layout, measure and fit the conduits, and eventually connect them to panels.
Key Insights
- The course provides step-by-step guidance on drawing conduits and connecting them to different panels in a layout. It involves drawing the conduits, measuring their dimensions, and fitting them correctly in the layout.
- The tutorial emphasizes the importance of proper measurement (center line to center line, not edge to edge) and correct alignment of the conduits to ensure a proper fit.
- The lesson also discusses the option of not directly connecting the conduits to the panels, a practice sometimes followed in the office to avoid potential issues. However, the ability to connect conduits directly to the panels is also presented as a useful feature.
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 tied everything into the one panel here. I want to go ahead and start tying items into the other panel, and we're going to tie half of these conduit into the panel here, and then half the conduit into the panel here.
The first half will be going, so the half here, the five here, will be going to this panel. The next five will be going to the next panel over. So I'm going to go ahead and draw a conduit.
I'm going to come up, and I have to think about how the layout is going to be, so I'm going to go ahead and bring this down, and then bring it down here. There we go. Select here, right click, draw a conduit.
I'm going to go up, over, down. Select here, draw a conduit. Up, over, down.
Select here, draw a conduit. Up, over, down. I'm going to go ahead and actually put some dimensions in so I can kind of get these starting to look right.
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Select, two inches. Select here, two inches. Select here, two inches.
I'm going to go ahead, right click, draw a conduit. This will be the last one going to this power one. Again, here.
Select here, click here, two inches. Perfect. I'm going to go ahead and remove those dimensions.
I'm going to go ahead now, right click, draw a conduit. These ones are going to come all the way over to the other panel here. I'm going to actually, to give myself, here we go, draw a conduit.
Again, it's going to come all the way over and down. I'm just going to not worry about going outside the building right now. I know that obviously we would not install it like this, but I'm just trying to get the runs in here.
Then I'm going to go ahead and actually put it in the correct location. There we go. We're almost there.
There we are. I'm going to go ahead and do my dimension. I'm going to get all of it looking correct here.
I'm going to grab my dimensions and go all the way up. There we go. Select here, two inches.
Select here, two inches. Just work my way down. Again, I'm measuring center line to center line, not edge to edge.
There we go. As you can see, everything is going to fit just fine. Perfect.
There we go. I'm going to go ahead and line these guys up real quick, DI. There we go.
Perfect. Now I'm going to go ahead and bring all these guys down. I'm going to pick here, here, draw a conduit, draw over, come down.
I'm going to go ahead and do that for all these real quickly. Draw a conduit, over and down. Select here, come back to here.
Right click, draw a conduit, go over and down. Select here and here. Right click, draw a conduit, over and down.
Again, I'm just trying to get these runs in. Select here and here. Right click, draw a conduit, over and down.
There we are. I'm going to go ahead and align it with the center lines of these. I'm going to go DL.
I can go from that midpoint there. That's the center line. There we are.
I'm going to go ahead and align to here and align the center lines to that. There we go. I'm going to go ahead and actually pull these guys over just a little bit, say, in case we needed to expand on that and add more connections later on.
Now, I'm just going to grab and see only one conduit at a time. If I change my section, here, drag down, finish connection. I'm going to go ahead, slide up, here, drag down, finish connection.
Drag down, here, finish connection. And the one thing that is about this connection is sometimes when I'm working on a project or we're working on a project, I may not necessarily connect it to the actual panel itself because of the fact that it can kind of start to create some issues, but I want to show you guys this functionality. We'll connect it to this panel, and then I'll show you sometimes what we do in the office when we don't need to connect it to a panel.
When I don't actually want to connect it. I'm going to go ahead here now, and I'm going to take all these guys and turn them down. So what happens is when I connect it to a panel, it puts in connectors here, and then if I move that panel, the conduit moves with it.
Sometimes that's not necessarily a functionality that we need. It doesn't really add anything else to the project. It doesn't add anything else to the project just in case, if we're doing it for clash resolution or anything like that, sometimes I don't necessarily need it to connect directly to the panel, but it is a nice feature to have.
If I did not connect it to the panel, we would just go ahead. I would just select this, come here, draw down, and then draw a conduit, and I would just almost just bury it in the panel where I would come here, select here, right-click, draw a conduit, and come over, and then I just make it longer so that when I move it back, it would look like it's into the panel, but we're going to go ahead and connect this guy real quick, and then we'll be good to go. So I'm going to go ahead and select here and here, right-click, draw a conduit, straight down.
Well, remember with that, it's one of these Revit MEP things. It doesn't like to do just straight bends from wherever you're looking. So there, draw a conduit, over and down.
Select here, here, draw a conduit, over and down. Select here and here, draw a conduit, over and down. Perfect.
We're going to go ahead and now align these guys, so AL. I left that detail line there so I can align to it. There we go.
And then I'm going to go ahead, and I'm going to just see just the one conduit, because remember, if I see all these conduits, it's going to cause issues for me. So I'm just going to see just the one. There we go.
Again, I could always zoom in here and specify certain sizes. I'm not going to worry about it, but you can always do that. There we go.
Pull forward a little bit more. There we are. Finish connection.
Select here. I'm going to go ahead. Let's go ahead.
It looked like I brought that one down just nearly perfectly. It looked like it was connected, but it wasn't. Finish connection.
Here. Suck it back up. Finish connection.
And again, these connections can come out of the bottom or the tops. We just happen to have them coming out of the top. Finish connection.
And there we go. Last thing, and that will be it for the conduit. There we go.
I've got our dimensions there. I'm just going to go ahead and delete those. Let's go ahead.
Zoom extents. Control-S, save the file. I'm going to go ahead and set my drawing scale back to an eighth of an inch since I'm done running my conduit.
It just made it easier to see the dimensions and all that kind of information. So zoom extents. Control-S, save the file.
When we come back, we'll do some cable tray. See you then.
