Master the art of creating slope piping with inherent elevation tools in an efficient manner, ensuring the accuracy of pipe slope. Understand the nuances of snaps and the usefulness of following a 45-degree increment for a smooth process and accurate results.
Key Insights:
- The inherent elevation tool can be effectively used for creating slope piping and it is found to be the most time-saving and efficient method, despite appearing to be a tedious process.
- Sticking to a 45-degree increment while working on slope piping can aid in maintaining accuracy and smooth workflow.
- While creating slope piping, it is important to overestimate the inherent elevation, as underestimating can lead to difficulties in drawing the pipe due to fittings and other dimensions.
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Now what we can go ahead and do is do the same thing for the other side. So I'm going to go pipe, inherent elevation, slope up three inches, a quarter inch over a foot. There we go.
Make sure you're sticking to a 45 degree increment. So in that instance, it's 135 feet. And then you just kind of work your way around.
Remember, always select that inherent elevation, work my way up back there, there 30 feet. There are ways that I could go ahead and like create groups or copies of these. I'm not a huge fan necessarily of doing that with slope pipe because of the fact of just how slope pipe works and how specific it very, very much is.
So, you know, similar to what we did, like with the hot and cold water, where we created our drops and everything, you know, those were all staying at the same elevation. When you're changing the elevation with like the slope piping and this inherent elevation tool, I haven't found that it really is a time saver to, or the most efficient way to create these pipes just because of the fact that I'm having to go back and redo a lot of work and then the slope gets messed up and I got to fix it. And that just becomes more of a headache.
So it's, I know it seems like it's a tedious process to do this, but I have found that this is probably the fastest and most efficient way to make sure that your pipe slope and everything is correct right off the bat. So pipe and hair elevation slope up three inch. There we go.
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I'm going to drag up over here. I'm getting the snaps. I'm not exactly sure what's deciding when I get snaps and when I don't.
Um, I'm just kind of letting it roll and do its thing. The other thing too is when I draw that little portion off to the side. If I go like here, it's not giving me the snaps again.
When I draw that little portion, when I go up to my 30 feet, I'm over exaggerating it cause I know I'm going to delete it, but I don't want to under or make it super short because then the pipe may not draw because the fittings don't fit or for whatever reason. So that's another reason to kind of over exaggerate that inherent elevation. Boom.
This one's actually giving me the snaps again. I'm not sure why Revit is like, Oh, I'll give you snaps here, but I won't give you snaps there. Again, it's one of those things.
There's that. And we got two more on this pipe inherent elevation. Remember to click on that.
If you don't remember to click on that, it's not going to work properly. 30 feet. 30 feet.
There we go. And then here and here at elevation. And if you want like a really small 45 degree run, you could always do something like that to where you're just closer to the fixture.
30 feet. There we go. And there we go.
Let's take a look at it in our 3D. So I'm going to go to my 3D view. We can go ahead and turn off our section box and you can see we have some vertical risers.
I'm going to come back into here and delete that top of that 30 foot. So it does seem kind of time-consuming. And I will say that it is to make sure that your pipe sloping and everything stays correct.
There are ways that, you know, you could, you could potentially draw one, but then to always get this at the right elevation, you still have to go on a on a pipe by pipe basis. So it's, it's still kind of a it's still kind of a pain, but there we go. There's a good stopping point for this video.
When we come back, we'll continue with our system. See you then.