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My Revit videos are from an actual practicing electrical engineer's perspective - I only design electrical systems, so you won't find other MEP subjects on this channel. I like to cover the basics, but also more advanced tips & tricks specific to electrical designers, such as linked architectural files, electrical equipment & devices, one-line/single-line diagrams, custom family creation, etc. I like to teach in a step-by-step, clear, concise manner, covering the "why" as much as the "how".
I am a licensed professional electrical engineer with 35+ years of experience in the construction electrical engineering field, and have used AutoCAD and Revit throughout my career.
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Thanks for the step by step video. I'm getting a weird error where if I change the angle to 0 and then back to any number the constraints are not met. I've been tinkering with it without success.
Wire path seems to be different from wiring the receptacles. In fact, when you edit wiring configuration to match what is your idea of wiring of a circuit with several receptacles, Revit wire path is totally different, and it show wire path only for one receptacle (not sure but seems show wire path only for the furthest one). Since wiring path would be important in case of a wire quantity schedule, any idea on how the wiring path could match wiring in a case with a circuit with more than one receptacle?
Hey there! You are correct, in that wire path is independent of any kind of "wiring" you show - that wiring is really just a graphic representation of what devices are connected together, and has nothing to do with the behind-the-scenes wire path. The wire path appears to just be for a voltage drop calculation - and this is a "feature" that is often criticized. And just like you have noticed, Revit takes the furthest device on a circuit and comes up with a path back to the source, puts the entire load of the circuit at that location, and computes the voltage drop (then upsizes the wire size based upon the criteria that is set up for % loss, etc.). This type of voltage drop calc can actually be useful for a panel feeder or a single piece of equipment. I'd say that it is not Revit's intent for the wire path to provide wire quantity data. However, you could manually edit that wire path to more closely match the actual wiring scheme to approximate the wire/conduit lengths if that is your desire. But great observation - thanks for the feedback! Cheers
I've been trying to sort this out for years, I am UK based so not quite the same but the principles are the same, I've finally managed to get this to work. Respect..
Hey there Andrew! Glad to hear this helped you out! Yeah, the way Revit electrical settings are arranged is not super intuitive. Let me know if you run into any other issues! Cheers
You bet! If you search Revit Sample Project Files, you should find, for 2024 and beyond, the "Snowdon Towers" sample files - includes all trades (even an electrical one you can review). Hope that helps!
@@ElectricRob I want to say that Kindly make video on sample electrical project that is available on home page of revit software "Sample System Project".
Hey there! Appreciate the feedback! And there will be many more episodes about the Snowdon Towers! Will complete power plans for all of the floors and roof, then will continue thru the lighting plans, one-line diagram, panel schedules, keyed notes, symbol list, etc. for a complete professional project!
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Very welcome, and I'm glad you find them helpful. I know there are a lot of details in there, so I'll be working up a chapter list to help navigate thru it! Cheers!
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Subscribe to the channel for lots more Electrical-Only Revit videos. And watch this one next to learn more about One-Line Diagrams! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Vfo6oKN2qFo.html
Very interesting. I have never needed such a high level of detail before, but still, better to be prepared🙂. One more question if I may. You explained it in another video, but I don't remember what you use coordination views for?
Agree - I often just connect even the "remote driver" type LED's as 120V and let a note clarify, but wanted to present this more detailed option for those that do need it. As far as coordination views, some call them "working views", but they are just a separate view that you can set up differently than your actual "production view" or "sheet view" that you would actually place onto a finished sheet for publication. You can turn on other categories or even other linked models like HVAC or Plumbing or Structural to help with clash detection and coordination amongst the trades. Or even for your own electrical coordination - could have lighting, power, and even technology all visible at once. Nice to have this is a separate "view" so you don't forget to switch your "sheet view" back to the proper publish settings.
Hi Rob ! Hope everything is fine with you there. I have something for you. I want to know if we can change the colour of cable Trays Which we can see in the model when import to Naviswork. For example For CT (ITR) I want red colour For CT(power) I want Green colour Like which we can do for piping system in water supply Which can be visible in model not only in layout. Waiting for your reply.
If you feed (for example) C and A phases from a 3-phase board into a single phases XFMR and then out to single phase 2-pole panel, have you found a method to make sure the panel continues to read/display it's loads on the C and A phases? I find that Revit immediately defaults back to A and B. I would prefer it to bring the phase names through consistent with their upstream destinations of the 3-phase system. Cheers
Hey there Sam - great question! I have to admit I've not tried this scenario, but I sure will to see what's up. My gut feeling is that like any other 2-pole load, I would expect the loads would report on those 2 phases only, but maybe something crazy happens thru the transformer. Will see what I can find out and report back!
Can you pick your own wire sizes, grounds, etc? Or can you at least label them on the wires as a callout type of thing? Sizing conductors and breaker sizes properly is the most important part of my job so trying to talk my managers into switching over to revit. Can you modify the panel schedules to include the wire sizes, ground sizes, conduit size and types etc?
Hey Colton. Unfortunately, Revit wire sizing is not great, to be honest. I learned early on that I would still be sizing wiring outside of revit. Yes, you can add wire sizes, etc. to panel schedules, but note that revit tries to size wiring based upon its own voltage drop calcs, which have their own issues (lumps all loads of a circuit at the furthest load location, which of course way oversizes all of the wiring), sizes ground wires the same size as phase and neutral, etc. That being said, there are many other reasons to utilize revit - just wire sizing is not one of them. There are 3rd party add-ons that can help, if you want to go the paid route.
Hey there! Are you asking about physical dimensions for lighting fixtures, receptacle boxes, etc? Those "family" dimensions can be "associated" or "mapped" to family parameters that can be changed within your model if needed for a "parametric" type family. I have a number of videos on this channel that show detailed family editing.
Check out this video about making a non-hosted receptacle - shows adding labels to dimensions with parameters that you can adjust within your actual model ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-f7wNLylEBe0.html
I would love to see a video on how you go about updating a model if the architect changes something for example we had him put in a fire pump room and change a office into a restroom so need to update electrical accordingly.
Hey there Colton. Ah yes, sounds like a good video idea! I've hinted at a few small electrical changes (removing from circuits, adding to circuits, etc) but not a bigger change like you suggest. I'll definitely put that on my ideas list! Thanks for the feedback!
Indeed - it's in the works soon! In the mean time, I have my previous full-project series here in one mega-video! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hVH2SoYuxY4.html
@@ElectricRob Hey, I'm currently starting the first large project you just linked and you mentioned that there wouldn't be any mechanical/plumbing coordination in it since you'll be covering a lot of the basics in that build. Just curious, will you consider the MP coordination in this commercial project series? Thanks for the series, I appreciate it!
Hey there! Yes! Mechanical and Plumbing models are available for this project, so I will be showing coordination of those with the electrical model in this series!
Hey there Juan! In the video at around timestamp 4:05 I show how to duplicate the panel, but also scroll down to the Electrical Circuiting Heading / Distribution System to set it to match the "Panel Voltage" and "Panel Phase" that I set for that instance. Let me know if you can't find that. Cheers
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Hey there! That template is not available directly, but I do show how it was created in this video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hq-psuAb084.html - hope that helps!
Thanks and glad you enjoyed it! I have a new project series starting with episode 1 here! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QWpFmpQU-N8.html
Cool Tips for getting info about Background CAD Link, Layers Names etc. Also great Tip about Cleanup for better Background Visibility like it was in Xref in AutoCAD.. 😊👍
