Discover the technical process of plumbing planning in construction or remodeling projects. Learn how to draw, align, adjust, and copy pipe systems for a building's bathrooms using specific measurements and tools.
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- The article explains how to draw cold and hot water lines for a bathroom's toilets and fixtures. This involves selecting the correct system and pipe type, adjusting the elevation, and using the align tool to position the pipes accurately.
- The content provides practical advice on adjusting and deleting inaccurate pipe lines. It underscores the importance of setting the pipes at the correct elevation and illustrates the process of copying one pipe system and applying it to another area.
- It also details how to copy pipe systems to another floor level using the tab and control keys. The article explains how to paste these pipes into the desired level and make necessary adjustments to ensure accurate plumbing systems across multiple floors.
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In the previous video, we went ahead and got some of these drops done. We're going to go ahead and continue that with the bathrooms and everything.
And then also, we will double check our system here to make sure everything is good. So let's go to our level one ceiling plan. Now, when we look at the bathrooms, we kind of have two different things happening here.
And actually, let's go to our level one floor plan real quick, because we're not seeing some of the fixtures here. So what we have happening is that we're going to need a cold water line that goes to the back here to supply the toilets and the urinals and the toilets in the women's. And then we'll need a hot and cold water line for each of these here at the toilet.
So what I'm going to go ahead and do is I'm going to go over to my systems. I'm going to go to pipe. I'm going to make sure I set them on domestic hot water with one-inch hot water.
I'm just going to draw these in. So I'm going to change this to say we had 11 feet, I believe. We'll change this to 11 feet.
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Come here and drag over, change it to three feet. And there. There we go.
Here's that. So I'm going to draw the same thing down here. So pipe one, let's go 11 feet.
Again, I'm not going to connect it right now. Click near the center line of the wall. Three feet for elevation.
There we go. Delete, delete. Perfect.
And if you really want to align this to the center line of the wall, you actually can. I know I've kind of been eyeballing it a little bit, but you could always pick on using the align tool. So under modify here, align, I could select the center line of the wall and I could select the middle of that pipe.
And it's going to align that up. There we go. Now what I want to go ahead and do is I'm going to go to systems pipe.
Still a one inch line. I'm going to change it to domestic cold water. I'm going to go ahead and do one here.
I forgot to change my elevation. This is at three feet, which is not the height I wanted. So I'm going to undo.
Let's go pipe, make it 11 feet, domestic cold water, boom, pick there, drag over three feet. So again, we could have just drawn one and also copied it over to, again, there's multiple ways to go ahead and do this. Now I want to go ahead and take my water line back for the toilets and fixtures.
So I'm gonna make this one a little bit larger. So I'm going to make this one a, let's go with a, a one and a half inch line. So I'm going to go 11 feet, start about here.
I'm going to come all the way back. I'm going to go back to this chase wall. I'm going to go down to three feet.
And what we can do is we're just going to run it back here in preparation. And there we go. I'm going to do the same thing here.
Well, I have my one and a half, so let's do my 11 feet. I'm going to start it kind of down here, pick over. I'm going to go into this chase.
I'm going to go down to three feet and run along the backside here, running towards these fixtures. And then I'm going to change this pipe diameter to be one inch, 11 feet. And we're going to go to the center line of the wall, three feet.
And there we go. We could also copy it. I like to kind of keep these together.
So what I could do is even though I have this up here, I'm just going to drag this guy straight down. There we go. Now, I'm going to copy these up to the second floor.
So here's another way of doing the copy. I'm going to tab, select tab, hold control, select tab, hold control, select. I'm going to do the same thing here.
Tab. The tab allows me to select all the pipes in the network. Hold control.
The control allows me to add to my selection set to have control that tab. Make sure I get the right thing. Control click.
I'm going to go ahead and copy. And then I'm going to use a different paste option here. So I'm going to go ahead and paste.
I'm going to paste aligned to selected levels. If you're familiar with your model, I know I can go to level two and I can paste those in at level two and they'll be in the same location. If we go look at our level two here, you can see I still have them.
They're still there. I might need to make some adjustments to them, but let's look at our level two ceiling plumbing. But you can see I have all of my hot waters and my cold waters are there.
So what I can do now is I can go to my modify the trim, extend multiple elements. We can do the hot water. Boom, boom.
I might want to take a peek at why that's doing that, but we'll take a look at it. And then I can go to the cold water. Boom, boom, boom, boom.
And if you need to slide these or adjust them, you can go ahead and do so. So this one kind of connected funny. Let's take a look at this.