Immerse yourself in this comprehensive guide on VDCI's mechanical class, where the focus is on completing the supply system and starting on rooftop unit connections. Discover key techniques for working on the second floor, manipulating 3D views, hiding and revealing elements, and troubleshooting common issues.
Key Insights
- The course highlights the importance of saving recent work before moving on to new tasks, such as working on roof plans and mechanical equipment.
- Practical advice is given on navigating the systems tab, using keyboard shortcuts, and selecting the correct RTU family for rooftop unit installations.
- The tutorial demonstrates comprehensive techniques on 3D view manipulation, including revealing hidden elements and temporarily hiding elements. Additionally, it provides guidance on resolving issues like the rooftop unit's height and duct connections.
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 back to the VDCI course content for the mechanical class. In the previous video, we finished our supply system here. So what we want to go ahead and start doing is get our actual rooftop unit and start making these connections down to this.
Then we'll work on the second floor. So what I'm going to go ahead and do is I'm going to go over to my roof plan. I'm going to go here to roof.
There we go. If you haven't saved recently, go ahead and save. We want to go ahead.
The Architect has provided us a mechanical well here. We're going to have to place it in, but then we're going to take a look at it and just make sure that it's the right location. So I'm going to go over to my systems tab.
I'm going to go to my mechanical equipment. I'm going to find my rooftop unit. I believe it's just called RTU family.
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See, Is this the one? Nope, Not quite that one. We have a couple of different families in here. I'm going to click this one as a reference.
We want to go ahead and use this guy. We're using the same one. And here's one trick. When you already have something populated in the model, what you can go ahead and do is use this tool called not copy, but "Create Similar."
So CS is the keyboard shortcut, but I can have something selected, hit CS, and it automatically gives me that element and then place it. We'll take a look at our parameters here.
We should be pretty good. I'm going to go ahead and pop one in here. I'm also going to take a look at our 3D view to see how it looks.
When we go to my 3D view, I'm going to actually go to view and get this to be the full view. So let's go to tiled views. There we go.
Now, I can't see my architectural model here. So I'm going to hit VV. I'm going to turn on.
It's on. Someone may have hidden it. So I'm going to go down here to my reveal hidden elements.
Yep, it's been hidden. So I'm just going to go ahead and select it. Right-click, Unhide in View, Elements.
And I believe it looks like we still have some other elements hidden at these roofs. I'm just going to tab-select them, Unhide in View, Elements. And there we are, we brought it back.
Now we can see our architectural model. That's one thing that you don't really want to do is you don't want to hide elements in view because obviously, you know, they can be hard to find later on, especially for other people who may be jumping in and working on the model. What you can always use, though, is this temporary hide isolate.
Let me just show you this. If I wanted to just temporarily hide this, I can go ahead, select my link. I'm going to go to the little glasses here at the bottom, and I'm going to hide element.
Now, if you notice, this teal bar has popped up around my window. This is letting me know that something has been temporarily hidden or isolated. To reset this, all I'd have to do is go here, temporary hide isolate, reset.
And there we go. And I'm back to seeing my entire model. So as you can see, we kind of have a few issues here.
We got a little piece of ducts to connect to the roof. We also have our rooftop unit is a little bit too tall. Now, if I set it to zero, let's go ahead and see what happens.
I think it might be a little bit too far into the roof. If you look real closely, it's too far into the roof. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go to my roof plan.
Notice I can't see my section because it's not cutting through this view. So let's go down to where we know it is visible, which is the ceiling mechanical. I'm going to go into this section and I'm going to grab this.
I'm going to drag it up. So once I can see that roof level, that's when I'm going to be able to see that section on this view. So I'm going to come over here.
I'm going to move this section over. Let's go back. So you can see our mechanical platform is here, but this level is a little bit lower.