Discover the straightforward process of adding plumbing fixtures, such as sinks and toilets, to a design plan. Learn about the utilization of pre-loaded components, dimensioning, and the handy function of copying fixtures to replicate across different levels.
Key Insights
- The process begins with checking the pre-loaded components to avoid unnecessary loading, and it's demonstrated using a sink model. The model is placed using the 'spacebar trick' and then dimensioned from the face of the wall.
- To add a toilet, the article explains that if no water closets are pre-loaded, one has to be loaded in. The selected model, the toilet commercial wall 3D, is similarly placed and dimensioned.
- The key benefit of having the fixtures hosted to the wall is that they can be copied directly to other restrooms with similar dimensions. These fixtures can be copied to different levels using the copy to clipboard function and paste aligned to current view option.
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Now let's go ahead and add those plumbing fixtures. So I'm on level one. I'm going to zoom in here to the bathrooms, and we're going to add a sink and a toilet.
If I were to go to component and see what's already loaded in, because we don't want to load something if we don't need to, you can see that we have one of our sink models already loaded. So I'll select this first one here, and we can place the sink. Again, the spacebar trick works pretty well.
And I'll set the sink here, and I'm going to dimension it from the face of the wall. I want to make sure that it's a good distance away. So one foot six inches is typical, and I don't need to keep that dimension.
That was just to place the sink. And then the next thing we need to do is put in the toilet. And so if I were to go to component, there are no water closets loaded into the project.
So I'll need to load one in. So I'll go to load family, and we're going to back up a couple levels here, and we're going to look for plumbing, architectural, fixtures, and then it'll be under water closets. I'm going to go ahead and grab the toilet commercial wall 3D, and click open.
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And we'll place it the same way that we placed the sink, about one foot six inches from the face of the wall. So I can use the temporary dimension here, and using tab, I can go ahead and I can set the toilet in the location we want. What's great here is because these are both hosted to this wall, I can actually copy them directly up into the other restroom.
And it's always good to double check, but they should be in that same location because these rooms are both the same size. And so now we have the plumbing fixtures on level one, and we should be able to copy them up using the copy to clipboard function, which we've used multiple times on this project, into level two. And so we'll go ahead and do the paste aligned to current view, and now we have our plumbing fixtures on level two.
