Discover the process of adding fixtures to a restroom design using architectural software in this informative tutorial. Learn how to navigate architectural components, select and place items, and utilize familial tools to create a functional and aesthetically pleasing restroom space.
Key Insights
- The article provides a step-by-step guide on adding fixtures to a restroom design, beginning with a shower stall, followed by a toilet and a wall-mounted sink.
- The author details the selection process of fixtures, utilizing the architecture component feature, and loading family from the US Imperial library when the desired elements are not preloaded into the project.
- The tutorial emphasizes the importance of accurate placement and dimensioning of fixtures to ensure functionality, such as ensuring the toilet is positioned to allow the door to open fully.
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In this video, we're going to focus on adding the fixtures for our restroom here. We have a sink that's wall mounted that sits out here. We're going to have a toilet, and then we're going to have a shower in the corner.
And so these are family types that don't have their own category when you look across the buttons in the Architecture tab. So those are all going to fall under Place Component. If I were to go Architecture > Component, you can see here that we have many different options to pick from.
Some of them are ones we're going to use, and some of them are just ones that are preloaded with the project. And so in our case, we're going to start with the Shower Stall 2D. And when I pick that, you can see we get a preview of it.
And to place it, I'll just simply line it up with my walls here and left-click to place it. Now to place the toilet and the sink, what we'll do is we'll go through the same process where we'll go to Component, and we'll go through the Type Selector and see if what we're looking for is already loaded into the project. And looking through here, see that we have some site elements, a few other options, but nothing in the Plumbing Fixture category that we're looking for.
So what I can do is I can go to Load Family, and within the US Imperial Library, I'll have a whole list of different categories that we can choose from. For this project, we're going to go into the Plumbing folder, Architectural, Fixtures, and you can see it's broken down one more time into the different types we would use. We're looking for Water Closets, and I'm going to grab the Toilet Domestic 2D and click Open.
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From here, you can see it's now ready to be placed, and we can set this at a location so that it'll clear the door because we definitely don't want to make it so you can't open the door. So what I'll do is I'll draw a dimension from the center line of toilet to the face of the wall, and we typically want to be around one foot six inches, so somewhere in between, let's say, 17 to 19 inches. So here we're at one foot five inches, and so just double check to make sure that's exactly one foot five inches, and then we're good to go with the toilet location.
So Loading from the Imperial Library is one thing we can do. Another thing that we can do is we can actually use the Insert and Load Family tool, and we could load in families from our BIM 101 folder. You can see we have an option here for Lavatory Wall Mounted.
If I click Open, it will load that from the files that we downloaded for the class, and like the other ones, these are Revit 2020 files, so they must be upgraded to 2021. And the difference here is when you use the Insert Load Family tool, it doesn't necessarily take you directly to that operation like it does when you're within the door or window family like we saw before. If I go back to Architecture and Component, my wall-mounted lavatory is ready to go, and I'll just use my spacebar a couple of times, and what that does is it'll rotate the family into place. Then I can place the wall-mounted lavatory on the wall here.
And now we have all the fixtures in for our restroom.
