Improve your knowledge of the BIM 321 course Introduction to Revit MEP with this in-depth discussion on cleaning up and aligning different pipes within a plumbing system. Understand how to ensure all your pipes are running at the same location, align the bottom edge of pipes, align sinks with one another, and how to check the first floor for alignment.
Key Insights
- The article goes into detail about making sure the locations of different pipes in a plumbing system are running at the same location. This is achieved by returning to the second floor plumbing plan and closing hidden windows.
- The author explains the importance of aligning pipes not by the centerline but by the bottom edge. This is achieved by taking a section and rotating it by 90 degrees.
- The article also emphasizes the need to align sinks with one another, ensure both sinks are connected and are in the same exact locations, and the importance of checking the alignment on the first floor.
Welcome back to the CAD Teacher VDCI video course content for the BIM 321 course Introduction to Revit MEP. In the previous video, we actually went ahead and got our waste system completely dialed in, looking great. But there are a couple of things for the piping that I want to go ahead and clean up.
Really, kind of the locations of these different pipes—I want to make sure that they're all running at the same location. So, what I want to go ahead and do is I'm going to go back to my second floor plumbing plan. I'm going to close hidden windows.
And, I'm going to go ahead and jump into my section, and then do my WT for my window tile. I want to go ahead. I don't want to align the centerline of these; I want to align the bottom edge of these. So, I'm going to go ahead and take my section, rotate 90 degrees. There we are.
And, as you can see, those aren't completely aligned. I need to just go ahead and move my section forward just a little. I'm going to go AL for align, pick here, tab, pick there.
So, now those are aligned. The other thing I want to do is I want to make sure that my sinks are aligned with one another. So, I'm going to go rotate here, 90 degrees, pull back.
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I'm going to go ahead and expand my section so I can see both pipes. And, we got to kind of get in close, but it shouldn't be too bad. Tab, align, align, okay, that looks fine.
I'm going to go align here, and align here. There we go. I'm going to go ahead and check my first floor real quick. I think everything should be okay down there.
We might need to align our sinks quickly. So, tab, align, tab, align, tab, there we go, tab, align. Perfect. Now both of those are connected and in the exact same locations.
So, the next step that we're going to go ahead and start working on will be our electrical. I want to go ahead now and actually let's go back to our 3D view. I want to go ahead and turn back on my link by going VV, turn on my Revit link again, apply, and click OK.
So, we see the building there. That was just a short video going through and cleaning up. Feel free to take a look at your plumbing system.
If you feel you need to adjust or change anything, by all means, go ahead and do so. And, I'll see you in the next series of videos. See you next time.