Master the CAD Teacher VDCI course content for BIM 321, Introduction to Revit MEP, as it guides you through the processes of setting up systems for a building's second floor using Revit MEP. Learn how to effectively set up a return air system for your second floor by following along with detailed, step-by-step instructions.
Key Insights
- The course content demonstrates how to expand and manipulate ceiling plans in Revit MEP, which includes techniques to close hidden windows and zoom extents for a better overview.
- The tutorial provides step-by-step guidance for setting up a return air system, including instructions on how to select the right duct size and system type, and how to draw and adjust the ductwork layout for optimum performance.
- The lesson emphasizes the importance of regularly saving your work, with reminders to save the file after significant changes have been made.
Welcome to the CAD Teacher VDCI video course content for the BIM 321 course, Introduction to Revit MEP. In the previous video, we went ahead and got our return air system done for our first floor. So let's go ahead and start hopping up to our second floor and get both the systems done for our second floor.
So I want to go ahead and let's go to my ceiling plan, my second-floor ceiling mechanical, and I'm going to go ahead and expand this guy, all the way. So I'm going to go ahead and zoom extents. I want to close all the windows behind, but for some reason, there it goes.
It's not wanting to pop that up, so I'm going to go to close hidden windows, and there we go. We're going to start off with our return air system, and so what I want to go ahead and do is I want to go ahead and we're going to bring it up along this wall, and then we're going to kind of come over up here and then go up. We're going to be able to catch this guy here off of the duct right there, and we're going to count kind of close to this one, come about right here, and then come up that same corridor there.
So under the ceiling mechanical here, I'm going to go ahead and let's go to duct. There we go. Please make sure you're using an 18 × 12.
If you need to, go ahead and change it to 18 × 12 with an offset of 10 feet. Please make sure your system type also says return air. Once you have all those settings set, I'm going to go ahead and start where my shaft is.
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I'm going to pick here. I'm going to kind of come over, go around. I'm going to come fairly close to this guy here, and then I'm going to go ahead and turn it up here, come down, and catch that last one there.
I can actually go ahead and let's go ahead and turn this because that's going to be able to die directly into it, and there we go. Perfect. So let's go ahead now and actually start tapping it out.
So I'm going to go DT for duct again. Let's go ahead and change it to a 12 × 12. We don't necessarily need that large duct to get all the way to the specific smaller ducts.
So I'm going to go ahead and pop this out here about 2 feet. There we go. Come up here.
Pop this out here. There's that. Come here.
Pop that out there, and then get all of my other ones. Just work your way down. Again, remember we're working on the return air system, and there we are.
Awesome. Now let's go ahead and tie them all in. I'm going to go ahead and select this guy here, right click, draw flex duct, bring it there.
Hit escape. And before I actually tie this one in up here, what I'm going to do is I'm going to change the size of it. Again, I don't need that big 18 × 12.
I'm going to select here, I'm going to go ahead and change it. Let's change it to a 12 × 12, there we go. Select here, right click, draw flex duct, tie in.
Zoom extents, Control+S to save the file, and there we are. Very simple, very fast and easy to do. So what I'm going to go ahead and do now is I'm going to go ahead and let's save the file and then I'm going to stop this video here and we'll come back and we'll do the return air system.
See you then.