Learn about the process of laying out sprinklers by connecting them to the pipe system while ensuring proper alignment and spacing. Understand the challenges that can arise while connecting pipes in a section view, and the importance of checking your work in the plan view.
Key Insights
- While connecting sprinklers to the pipe system, it's crucial to always check your work in the plan view, particularly when working in a section view, as connections may not always work as expected.
- When drawing pipes and connecting sprinklers, it's crucial to consider the proper alignment. The pipe lengths should be adjusted accordingly, and spacing between outlets should be maintained for easy fabrication.
- Connecting sprinklers can be a repetitive process, but the efficiency improves as you get into the groove. In some cases, pipes may need to be offset to allow outlets on both sides without them being directly across from each other.
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Now we've got one more sprinkler to connect. Right-click, Draw Pipe, one inch. We don't need that dimension there.
That's fine. Let's select Draw Pipe again and see if it connects.
In this case, it connected successfully, but sometimes when you're working in a section view and trying to connect pipes you're seeing through, the connection may not work correctly. Therefore, it's always a good practice to verify the connections in the plan view afterward. Going forward, I'll continue with the same process, connecting these sprinklers, these sprinklers, and this sprinkler.
You can skip ahead if you're comfortable with the process or continue following along. I'll move down to the next section and continue. Now, in this instance, it didn't connect correctly.
So I'll return to the plan view, drag the pipe out, and now it's connected properly. Sometimes the section view connection works, and sometimes it doesn't.
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Now, what we're seeing here is that these two sprinklers will connect to this branch line. However, if we draw them as we've done before, they would connect directly opposite each other on the branch line with an outlet, which is not ideal. Typically, we prefer some separation between our outlets because closely placed fittings can be difficult to fabricate.
Let's begin with this sprinkler and discuss how to route around this issue. Right-click, Draw Pipe, set diameter to one inch.
Currently, I'm at 11 foot 10 inches; I'll adjust this to 12 feet elevation. Now, I'll take this pipe segment and pull it back, and delete this 90-degree elbow. Back in the plan view, I'll select the pipe segment we just drew and move it approximately four inches.
Next, I'll draw the pipe segment over. Right-click, Draw Pipe, and look for the target symbol to connect. Now we've successfully offset our pipe, ensuring we have an outlet on each side, but not directly opposite each other.
Let's continue. Moving to the next sprinkler here, we can follow our previous method. Right-click, Draw Pipe, one inch.
Sometimes it aligns to the 12-foot elevation automatically; sometimes it doesn't—both outcomes are fine. I'll stop around here, draw it horizontally toward the branch line.
I know it needs to be at 12 feet, so I'll select it and adjust the elevation. Use Trim/Extend (single element), select the branch line, then the arm over pipe, and we're connected. We're almost there. For this next sprinkler, Revit indicates clearly where the 12-foot elevation is.
Let's see if it connects successfully—there it goes. We'll move down and zoom out to locate our next sprinkler.
Here it is. Press Escape. Now, we've got one more sprinkler to complete.
This one we'll connect directly into the main pipe. Let's adjust our section box, reduce its size slightly, and rotate it. We'll rotate it this direction by 90 degrees.
Return to our section view. Here it is clearly visible. Draw Pipe, set the diameter to one inch.
Ensure the elevation is set to 12 feet. Select the main pipe, then the arm over pipe, and it's connected. As you can see, laying out sprinklers can be repetitive, but it gets easier as you become more familiar with the process.
In the next video, we'll continue, clean up this branch line, connect these sprinkler heads on this branch line, and also connect these sprinklers to the other branch line.
