Explore the intricacies of Revit MEP plumbing using VDCI's BIM 322 course, focusing on piping systems and slope piping, fixture coordination, and system types. Gain practical insights on setting up a new file, launching Revit, and creating a new project using a template through this comprehensive guide.
Key Insights
- The BIM 322 course emphasizes the use of Revit for plumbing scope of work, including piping systems, slope piping, and fixture coordination with architectural teams.
- The course provides a step-by-step guide to setting up a new file in Revit, selecting the appropriate template (preferably plumbing specific), and starting a new project.
- Students are guided in saving their project in a specific file name, linking in architectural background and moving forward with the project, ensuring a detailed understanding of the Revit user interface.
Note: These materials offer prospective students a preview of how our classes are structured. Students enrolled in this course will receive access to the full set of materials, including video lectures, project-based assignments, and instructor feedback.
Welcome to BIM 322, VDCI's video course content for Revit MEP plumbing. In this class, we're going to be focusing heavily on using Revit for the plumbing scope of work. We're going to be talking about piping and piping systems, and also about sloped piping, which can be a long task in Revit, but it is a good task to know how to do.
We're going to be talking about fixtures and how to coordinate with our other team members using those fixtures. Architecture typically will place the location of the fixtures. Plumbing will need to create the connections into that fixture and that location.
We'll be talking about piping systems and the different types of systems that are out there, what Revit has built in, and maybe what we need to create. We'll be talking a little bit about the families and the connectors that are available for us. So what we want to go ahead and do is we're going to go ahead and get started, and we want to go ahead and start a new file.
We're going to get our new file set up. We're going to link in a Revit background for our architectural model, get that set up and squared away, and then we'll get into looking at a sample project, taking a look at the Revit-provided sample project for plumbing, and then we'll go ahead and get started on our own tasks. So what I'd like for you to go ahead and do is let's go up.
Here I have Revit launched. We're going to go over to Models, and we're going to go to New. They do have this new multidiscipline, but we want to use the plumbing-specific template.
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So in recent versions of Revit, they've given us a template file that is a multidiscipline template file, but we want to go ahead and use the plumbing-specific one. So I'm going to go ahead and browse. These templates in this template location are created when you install Revit, and you can see by default it's set to this multidiscipline.
I'm going to scroll down and find Plumbing, and I'm going to go ahead and hit Open. Then once that is loaded into my pulldown here, and you can see that it will now be in this pulldown, I'm going to go ahead and create a new project, and I'm going to go ahead and hit OK. That's going to load in a lot of settings and items that we're going to take a look at eventually with regard to plumbing, but we don't want to have to create them on our own.
In my particular version of Revit, I kind of like my user interface laid out like this. I have my Project Browser here on my left-hand side spanning the entire height of the screen. I also have my Properties palette on the right-hand side spanning the entire height of the screen.
I really like to have it split up this way. It doesn't really remove too much screen real estate, especially with larger monitors that are available today, but it also allows me to see all the properties, and there are a lot of things that as you get further and further into Revit, you're going to want to be able to see these properties without having to scroll or anything like that. Let's go ahead and save this file.
So hopefully you've downloaded the file downloads and put them in your VDCI location, wherever that may be. Now, I have a folder on my machine under My Documents, which is my VDCI, and that's where my file downloads go. So I'm going to go ahead and go File.
I'm going to go ahead and go Save As, Project. I'm going to go over to my pulldown. I'm going to find This PC, and I'm going to go to Documents.
I'm going to go to that VDCI folder that I have. I'm going to go to my BIM 322 file downloads, and in here, I'm going to go ahead and rename it to be BIM 322 and your name. So I'm just going to go Tyler Grant.
I hit Save, but make sure you put your name here, obviously. I'm going to go ahead and hit Save, and there we go. We've created a new project using a template, which is a very important thing.
We also have saved that project with a specific file name. I'm going to go ahead and stop this video here, and in the next one, we'll start linking in the architectural background and keep moving forward. See you then.