Explore the process of setting up lavatories and sinks in classrooms, a repetitive but crucial task in the realm of Revit MEP. This article walks you through the steps of positioning and adjusting sinks, drawing connections and incorporating plumbing items like P-traps.
Key Insights
- The article details the step-by-step procedure of setting up lavatories and sinks in classrooms using Revit MEP, from positioning the sinks to drawing the hot and cold water connections.
- Repetition is a key aspect of the process, as each unit, including multiple sinks and P-traps, requires the same steps. Over-exaggeration of certain elements, such as piping, can make the process easier and can be adjusted later on.
- The author highlights that while some offices might not fully tie in the hot and cold water pipes to the fixtures, doing so is considered good practice and is part of the process outlined in the article.
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We're going to continue with setting up our lavatories and our sinks in the classrooms. So the first thing I want to do is grab my working section.
I'm going to grab that working section. I'm going to go ahead and drag it over here to the south ones. I'm just going to make it so I can see both of those.
Looks like I've got some more sinks to move over to just align them better. That's okay. We'll just slide them back.
Again, you might have a little warning. It's okay, though. What I'm going to go ahead and do is start drawing these up.
So again, this goes down three inches. Take this down. I'm just going to use my cold water.
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Here, hot water. I will say, a lot of times some offices may not go to this entire length. Obviously, in a teaching sense, we want to teach you guys everything, but in some offices, they may just run the hot and cold water pipes to the fixtures.
They may not necessarily tie them in like we're going to in the class, but this is good practice overall. We have those. I'm going to come here.
Zero space three inches. That's kind of weird. Sometimes it does weird things.
Let's see here. Zero space three inches. Yeah.
I don't know what that was. That was just weird. Sometimes if it doesn't look right, just draw it, redraw it, and move on.
Don't get too hung up on the Revit glitches here. Two foot six inches. Actually, I didn't put these at two foot six inches.
Get these ones at two foot six inches. There we go. Here.
Zero space three inches. And this cold water there. And then again, two space six inches.
And there we go. Those four are finished. Oh, actually we need to put on our Pipe Fitting.
So I'm going to go up here to my Pipe Fitting tool. Make sure I'm using my P-trap. There we are.
Make sure you're getting that endpoint. Then it'll be good. This one I need to spin.
There we go. That's one I need to spin also. Perfect.
Time to move my section back. So I want to grab on my plan view. Again, I'm working in both plan and section at the same time.
Makes it really nice and simple. I'm going to go ahead, come over, get both of those. Let's move these sinks.
Just have to get close. It doesn't have to be perfect. Zero space three inches.
And then here and here. Get my two space six inches in there. There we go.
And keep on working. I know it seems like it's a lot of the same repetitive task, but it's good practice overall. So I'm going to do zero space three inches, two space six inches.
There we go. Again, I'm just going to use those connectors and create these taps out. There isn't a way to copy-monitor.
I was just starting to think about this. There isn't a way to copy-monitor with all of these connections already. The copy-monitor only makes the unit itself.
So theoretically, if we were pasting all of these, you could theoretically build one out completely with the P-trap and everything, and then use that. And if I move this guy, the pipes and everything move with it, as you notice. If you were to use that copy-monitor aspect, you could go ahead and, you know, build one out completely and then copy it around with all the pipes, which might be slightly faster, but you don't have that monitoring.
If you wanted to use that, that's the only downside to that. But there are a ton of different ways of doing this. Let's put on our Pipe Fitting.
There we go. There we are. And again, I'm just repeating the same process over and over again.
A lot of times with MEP items, that's kind of how it goes. You're going to be repeating the process over and over again because, you know, all of these sinks—we have multiple sinks in here. We're going to have multiple of these P-traps, multiple of these other items.
So let's go ahead and move this guy over. There we go. Just get a warning.
That's fine. And continue to go. I'm going to keep working around.
There we are. And continue to make my different pieces. Zero space three inches.
And make my hot and cold water connections here. Again, it's perfectly fine to over-exaggerate them. We'll be cleaning it up later.
So over-exaggerating it, especially with the piping aspects of Revit MEP, I have found that sometimes just over-exaggerating makes it a little bit nicer and a little bit easier to work with. Sometimes if you make things too short, it just, you know, the fittings don't want to work, these things don't want to work, which you can always adjust later on.
But doing it in the fashion of just over-exaggerating it, we'll come back, we'll make that all connected and everything. I think we might have some adjustments here in plan to do, right? Because these pipes are not perfectly in line with everything, but that's okay. We'll clean that up as we go.
Let's go ahead and put in our Pipe Fitting—so our P-trap. Just keep working around.