Learn how to refine your water system, adjust pipe sizes, change pipe fittings, and lay out your piping correctly in our detailed guide. Discover the simplicity of these processes and how to address issues such as system clashes effectively.
Key Insights
- The article describes how to refine a water system by adjusting pipe sizes, highlighting that once a pipe is placed, its size can easily be adjusted to suit individual requirements.
- It also discusses the different ways to change pipe fittings, including selecting fittings, changing sizes, and trimming the pipes together. The process is not complex but requires careful handling to ensure a proper fit.
- The final key point elaborates on how to correctly lay out piping for different systems. The article warns about potential clashes between different systems and assures that these can be managed effectively later in the process.
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In our previous video, we went ahead and ran our cold water mains. We're going to go ahead and do some refinement of the system just to prep it for when we start tapping off into the individual rooms.
But what we'll end up going ahead and doing is we're going to just adjust some of the sizes. So once we place pipe, we can always come back and adjust the size. Now, mind you, this is flat pipe.
We're not sloping this or anything, and we'll get into slope piping later on in the course. So what I'm going to go ahead and do is, you know, through the kitchen through here, once we kind of get into this area here, we can start to reduce it. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to take this guy here.
I'm going to take this three inch and I'm going to go ahead and just change it. And it's very simple to change it to say like a two inch. And you can see the size difference here.
It'll automatically put the transition in there for you. I'm going to do the same thing here. I'm going to select this one, change it to a two inch.
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I can select this one, change it to a two inch. And that's just for these other water items here. But then notice that I don't really need this transition here.
There's a couple ways to go about this. I could go ahead and select this fitting and I can't really change. I can click here and change this to like a two and it's going to change two on both sides.
The other thing you can go ahead and do is I could like just delete this and then I could trim these together. If I wanted to go that way, there's a couple of different ways of doing it when you change the pipe fittings like in that fashion. So again, I could select this.
I could change like the size of this, change it to a two, changes both sides because that's how this elbow is done. It's not a variable elbow. It can't have like a three inch or a two and a two inch on this side.
These are both the same. Or I could just instead select these, delete them, and then I could trim it back together to get it back to that size. So there's that.
We refine the system a little bit. Now you could go a couple of different ways here. We could just come off and make all of our different tap offs.
I'm not going to worry about that too much right now. What I want to do is I want to kind of stay on the same vein of the larger piping aspects. We're going to go ahead and put in our hot water main that we're going to eventually be running down this system.
So I'm going to go over to my systems. Oops, I double clicked here and all I did when I double clicked on accident here is that I just changed the look and feel of my ribbon. If you ever see it like this, there's the button right here that you can go ahead and you click through this and you can cycle the different ways that the ribbon is available.
So this is kind of the standard. Even I still like to use this in my normal day to day. If I click here, it goes down to these different panels where it will just, I can hover over and it expands those panels.
If I click here, it's just the tabs that you can click on. And then here it hides the entire ribbon unless you click on it. I still prefer kind of the full ribbon here because it locks that ribbon in place.
So I want to go over to systems. I'm going to go here to pipe. Again, I'm going to be using that same copper pipe.
Let's go ahead and make this like say a two and a half inch line. We'll make it a three inch. Now, the one thing we have to be mindful of here is we want to change the system.
So I don't want the system to be a domestic cold water. I want it to be a domestic hot water. I'm going to select there.
I'm going to drag down. I'm going to pick and kind of run the same path. We can always refine it later on.
If it's not in exactly the correct location, that's okay. I'm going to go ahead and run it down here. And then we'll go ahead and run it down here.
I'm going to come back up here and I want to have my hot water line going down the corridor. Right there, I'm going to drag over and go there. Now, here's the thing that happens.
Notice how this did not put in a transition here or any kind of cross. Revit recognizes that these are two separate systems and they're going to go ahead and actually in this instance clash. And we'll work through that a little later on, but it doesn't actually create the automatic connection because they're two different systems.
So let's take a look at this in 3D. I'm going to go ahead and select this fitting and this fitting here. I'm going to come up to my little box, my selection box here, and I'm going to go ahead and go like that.
Let's go ahead and zoom in. Now you may notice that, oh, this is all 2D line work. It looks like 2D line work.
It is 3D elements, but because of that detail level, it's gone ahead and not showing me the full size of the pipe. So I'm going to go ahead and change my detail level down here to fine. And there we are.
We do have a clash there and we'll go ahead and clean that up here in a little bit, but we wanted to get this system laid out, but you can see how that looks there. I'm going to go back to my plumbing floor plan. Let's go ahead and zoom out, control S and save.
And you can see that it's pretty simple to start laying out some of this piping. I'm going to go and stop this video here and we'll see you in the next one.