Delve deeper into the process of laying out an exhaust system for the second floor using the Revit MEP Mechanical course. Explore the critical steps to tag all the spaces, adjust the scale, and add the duct system while ensuring the accurate settings of system type and diameter.
Key Insights
- The course content covers the steps to lay out an exhaust system on the second floor, following the same procedure as was done for the first floor.
- While setting up the system, it's critical to add in space tags, adjust the scale to a quarter inch equals a foot, and ensure the system type is set to exhaust air with a diameter of 16 inches.
- The process also involves running the duct down and making connections to the diffusers, with special emphasis on working views and managing the size of space tags for convenience.
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Welcome back to the VDCI video course content for the Revit MEP Mechanical course. In the previous video, we started laying out our exhaust system. We're going to go ahead, go up to our second floor, lay out our exhaust system up there, and then we're going to go ahead and clean this up a little bit, then get some of the equipment and other aspects of this exhaust system in.
So what I'm going to go ahead and do is I'm going to go to my second floor ceiling working plan view, and I'm going to go ahead and just as a general good practice, I'm going to add in my space tags here so that I can see the rooms that I'm working in. So I'm going to go to annotate. I'm going to go to Tag All.
I'm going to scroll down and find space tags and then just hit apply. Hit OK. And again, since this is a working view, I don't really need to worry about, you know, obviously you want them to look nice and everything, but this view is not going on a sheet.
So I'm going to go ahead and change my scale just so that they're kind of out of my way. Like what I did on the previous, on the level one view, is I made it a quarter inch = 1 foot as compared to an eighth inch = 1 foot. And that reduces the size of my space tags here.
So what I can go ahead and do is we're going to add in our duct system, just like what we did previously. So I'm going to go to my systems. I'm going to go to duct.
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Again, level two, my middle elevation, I'm going to confirm it's 11 feet to start. And we may need to adjust it later on, depending on when we look at it in section. I want to make sure my system type is set to exhaust air and I want to make sure my diameter is set to 16-inch.
So I'm going to come up here to my options bar at the top. I'm going to go here to my diameter. I'm going to choose 16.
And again, I'm just going to run my duct all the way down and go all the way down here. There we go. I'm going to go ahead and hit escape.
And there is my main duct run there. I'm now going to go back to duct. I'm going to change this to 12-inch because I want to make my connections to the actual diffusers.
So I'm going to change it to 12-inch and I can do the same exact thing. I'm going to come here, drag over, pick. Come here, drag over, pick.
And again, I'm continuing to work my way down the line. There we go. And then this one, I'm going to go ahead and actually drag it from the diffuser over and then we'll just use the trim command to take those together.
Great.