This article provides a practical guide on how to connect the main pipe on level 2 and add a riser manifold to the fire protection riser. It provides step-by-step instructions on how to achieve the right alignment and connections in the piping plan.
Key Insights
- The process involves going to the level 2 piping plan, aligning the main pipe, and ensuring it is at a 90-degree angle. The fitting can then be deleted to make room for fire protection tees.
- Adding the riser manifold to the fire protection riser involves going to the level 1 piping plan and creating a section first. The detail level should be changed to fine to see the underground piping, flange, and riser clearly.
- To connect the riser manifold to the riser, the pipe must be split at the appropriate point. The align tool is used to set the manifold in the correct location for connection to the riser, with a custom coupling put in place for a secure connection.
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Now that we understand the pipe types better, let's connect our main on level 2. We'll go to our level 2 piping plan, and we can see the same situation is happening with the main here. It's not capped in this case, so let's just drag it down to the same location, just to about here. Right click, draw pipe, and we'll go down in this direction, again making sure we're going at a 90 degree angle.
We can delete this fitting, and let's take this to about right here. And again, fire protection tees, which is what we want. We'll drag this into the center line of this main, and we have our standard tee.
Now let's go to the fire protection riser and add our riser manifold. We can go to our level 1 piping plan, and let's pan up to this room where we have our riser. So let's make a section first.
If we go up here, here's our section tool, and we'll start about right here, and drag over to about here. And let's pull this back so we're inside the building, and we can right click, go to view. Now it's pretty difficult to see what's going on.
That has to do with our detail level. If we go here, let's change this to fine. So what we can see here is our underground piping, here is our flange, and here is we come up through the inside of the building to our riser.
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Let's go back to our level 1 piping plan and bring in our riser manifold. So let's go to insert, and let's load family. And again, find your BIM 324 downloads folder, and look for Revit families, and find the 3-inch riser manifold.
And click open. Okay, now we don't see anything yet because we need to bring it into our plan. If we go to our project browser, let's scroll down to families, and let's find pipe accessories.
We expand that. There's our 3-inch riser manifold. We'll expand that again, and it should be right here.
Now all we have to do is click and drag, and we'll drop it about right here, and we can already set up to align with our riser. We'll click about right here, and press escape. Now it's not connected to our riser yet, so let's go back to our section view.
You can either right-click and go to view, or you can click on section 1 here. Okay, now we don't want this directly on the ground, so let's click on it, and let's go to move, and we'll go up, make sure we're going straight up. We'll go 3 feet.
Now this is going to have to connect onto the piece of pipe here. So first, let's click on our pipe. Now we're under the modify pipes contextual tab, and let's look for right here, split elements, and we can just cut our pipe roughly anywhere about right here is okay.
Now we got a notification there was a custom fitting created, which is okay. It put a coupling to connect now those two separate pieces of pipe. So let's get rid of it, and we'll drag this piece of pipe down to about here and up here.
Now we're going to use the align tool to set this up in the exact location where it should be to connect to the riser. We can type shortcut AL, and let's hover over the center line of our pipe here, and now the center line of the riser manifold, and this is where we want to be. Now we can click on this piece of pipe, drag it up till you see the target symbol, and we have a custom coupling that was put in there, which is perfectly okay.
And let's do one more right here. Now our riser manifold with our check valve, our flow switch, our drain, our pressure gauge, it's all set up. Now if you're using an extension, fire protection specific extension for Revit, you can also bring in your manufacturer specific drains and check valves and shut off valves, butterfly valves, et cetera.
But in our case, we're going to stick with this, and it's just generic for now. So let's see what that looks like in our 3D model. So again, in our project browser, let's look for our 3D fire sprinkler system, and if we zoom in, let's click on the riser first, and we can rotate around, and this looks pretty good.
Okay, so in the next video, we're going to get started placing some sprinkler heads.
