Discover how to enhance your plumbing work in Revit by utilizing working sections, a tool not typically included in a set of drawings but crucial in drawing piping efficiently. Learn how to create sections, run piping vertically, adjust viewing details, and place bends in a pipe to avoid architectural wall clashes.
Key Insights
- The article explains how working sections in Revit can significantly improve the efficiency of drawing piping in plumbing work. A working section is not usually part of the drawings set but serves to aid in the drawing process.
- The creation and manipulation of sections are integral parts of this process. By creating a section, running it vertically, and adjusting it into the ceiling space, users can effectively manage the footprint of the building in their design.
- The article also provides insights on adjusting viewing details for a more accurate representation and avoiding clashes with architectural walls. It details how to place bends in a pipe and adjust the pipe width, offering a practical tutorial on managing the interaction between plumbing and architectural features.
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Great. One of the biggest things when you're using, when you're doing plumbing work in Revit is going to be using a working section. Working sections are sections that really don't go on a set of drawings, but they are to aid us in the ability of being able to draw our piping efficiently.
And usually tiling those views across this is very helpful. So I'm going to create a section saying, hey, this guy's coming into here and we're going to run it vertically. And we can run it vertically to go ahead and get it into the ceiling space.
Now that it's entered the footprint of the building. So I'm going to go here to section. I'm going to create a section and then flip it.
I'm going to go to that view. And you can see there, I'm going to go ahead, hit WT for window tile. So this is again, I'm hitting WT, or you could go view.
You can go to tile views here, but you can see WT. I like to use that WT. I don't need my 3D view right now.
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So I'm going to just close it at WT again. And there we go. So I want to go ahead and create my vertical portion coming into the building.
So you see I have my three foot six. I'm going to right click on that drag. I'm going to draw pipe.
It's going to continue that one. I'm going to come straight up and then hit escape. Perfect.
So you can see a couple of things have happened here. We had our pipe that we originally drew underground. When I turned this up and put in this fitting, which is a welded generic standard bend, we go ahead.
We have a vertical portion of pipe and we may need to adjust this because it's kind of coming out. You know, it's in the building. It's pretty far.
So I can go ahead and I could grab this and slide it closer to the wall. The problem that I'm kind of really having here though, is, is I don't see the full width of the pipe, right? And again, that's because of my detail level right now, my detail level is set to course. I'm going to go ahead and set it to fine.
And I'm going to see the full width of that pipe. And there we go. So I can go ahead and take that up.
I'm going to kind of maybe take it to maybe, you know, nine foot six. I can change this value to say a nine foot six. And then I'm going to go ahead, drag this again, draw pipe, drag over.
And there we go. I really like to use these function of these guys on the ends of the pipe as compared to just going to systems and going to pipe. I could do that and I could just click on that connector and do kind of the same thing, but it seems like it's a little faster just to hover on that connector there, right click, draw pipe, drag over and place, and then hit escape to finish.
And there we go. So I am seeing that portion of the pipe high up in my plan view, which is nice. You can see I have this representational.
This is telling me if the pipe is bending up or bending down. I'm going to also switch. I, on my working views, I do like to see the full pipe width so that I can make sure that it's not a clashing with any of the architectural wall.
So I'm also going to set this view to fine. And there we go. So you may notice that it still seems like it's pretty far off the wall in this instance, but that's because we're not seeing this concrete stem wall below.
Realistically, what would have to happen is we'd have to come in through this concrete stem wall. And then if we wanted to support this on the wall, we may put a bend in here. So to put a bend in pipe, it's actually pretty easy.
This is kind of the workflow that I've kind of put together. And many other people have obviously used the same workflow. I'm not saying it's specific to me, but a lot of times I find it easier just to split this pipe into locations and then move one portion and then angle it over.
So what I'm going to do is I'm going to modify. I'm going to go to the split tool. So split, I'm going to pick like two portions.
I'm not too worried about it. And then I'm going to delete those elements that created that split. So I could just select those three.
When you do the split, it also puts a union in that or a coupling in that location because it's technically two pipe segments coming together. So what I'm going to do is pick here. I'm just going to pick these three, or I could drag a window over it and delete.
I'm going to grab this portion of the pipe. I'm going to slide it over to be close to the wall. And then here, I'm going to grab this draw pipe.
And let's say I want this to bend, say a 45 degree pick, and then I can trim these last two together. Now, in this instance, this angle worked out just fine. There was enough piece of pipe.
So there was enough space between these two in this plane that I was able to get this portion in at a 45 degree. In some instances, you may need to go a lesser degree to be able to get it. You could grab this entire transition now, and you can move it up or down if you needed to.
If we wanted to have just that transition come up through the floor, and then 45 degree over so I can get on the wall, or if let's say we needed maybe some spacing to make sure that we have a vertical standpipe coming up through the floor enough, and then it comes over, and there we go. Great. I'm going to go ahead and save my file, and we've drawn our first pipe.
We'll see you in the next video.