Helpful tip: I go ahead and cap all open ends as I draft then I delete the one cap where my actual building drain is (or where the riser drops). That way it will always orient the fittings properly and you don't have to reverse them. The downside is in QC - you have to make sure to delete any errant caps prior to publish. But, in my opinion that can easily be added to the workflow and saves a lot of frustration. Example of my frustration that is solved by capping everything: When I have a 45 wye and Revit inexplicably attempts to give me a 135 degree wye instead (whatever the heck that is), trying to route the sanitary in the wrong direction.
Love your content. I had a couple comments. 1. You can set your default pipe type and offset for each piping system classification under Mechanical Settings>Conversion. This can help eliminate drawing the wrong pipe type by accident. It isn't 100% but it does help. 2. I see you use a lot of keyboard shortcuts have you tried or thought about trying the 3d connexion space mouse. I had bought the wireless space mouse when I was in school and doing a ton of solidworks modeling. I recently found it and have been slowly trying to add it into my design routine. The cool thing is there are 2 buttons that I can program to have up to 8 commands each and it works for Revit and Autocad. There is a learning curve with it but I think mastering it can speed up design times. 3. On a seperate topic I am curious what you use to edit keynote files. We used to use notepad but it is very messy especially if you have your keynotes setup in a tree structure. One thing I found is setting excel as the default program for txt files makes the keynote file open in excel and since it is tab delineated it automatically separates everything in a different cell and makes editing keynotes much easier. It also doesn't allow another user to edit the file at the same time.
Thanks for the tips Patrick! 1. I started with the default plumbing template. I just realized, when I updat the pipe type in the project to my personal settings, I typically delete the existing one first. This will remove it from the sanitary system setting and replace with the standard. That's why I kept having issues! I was confused why it was happening, but I guess it's good since everyone got to see how to fix it! 2. Yea I just started using keyboard shortcuts after using Revit for many years. I map them all to my left hand so I can keep my mouse hand free. Its super fast! But, I could see having a special mouse would be pretty awesome as well. I use revit at home and at the office so one benefit to the keyboard is I don't need two special mice, but I will look into it! 3. I have found for small projects, just using text notes is pretty convenient. For larger projects I use an annotation with some parameters inside that allow me to add multiline text to the annotation symbol. Then I schedule the symbols using a note block. You have to create multiple schedules throughout that filter out notes you don't want on a particular sheet. It's a little time consuming at first, but once you get the hang of it, it can be pretty powerful. I have some videos on how I use this system. I'm very against using "user keynotes" since they have to have a host object to work. Also, unless you have a good management tool, like keynote manager (which cost money) I just feel managing the keynote file and adding notes and deleting notes is to challenging. But if you have any tips and tricks let me know! I have recently started using PyRevit and there is a good keynote manager tool in there I would highly recommend if you are using keynotes!
@MEP Guy I just found your keynote video. I get the aversion to host the keynote, but at the same time, I feel that it can provide value if you are using element keynotes. I'll have to give your way a try. As for managing the Revit keynotes, once you figure out how to create a tree structure and make excel the default for txt files, it is pretty easy to use. We have a template MEP keynote file that has commonly used keynotes for all trades, and it is formatted to separate per trade, demo, commercial, and residential. Can you build commonly used notes into the family you created?
@@patrickryan5790 it's definitely a great way to keynote elements. Seems very useful for architects who want to quickly tag elements in their model that relate to a key value. I would love to see how you're using them. Typically I'm noting general areas or items that are not specific to equipment. You could great a template file for commonly used notes. I would just leave off the sheet reference value. If I was going to do this in practice, I'd make the sheet note template file, an actual template file, that users could open on their computers and just copy and paste notes from the template project to their own. You could add notes to the template file as needed and just save over the one that everyone is accessing. eventually you'd have a long list of notes. In the template file, you could use master schedule to display all the notes. Lots of ways to do this, but the one down side is managing the notes in the actual project. It can get tricky for new users on larger projects.
Look out for the next video in this series "vent piping" which should be out tomorrow. I got a pretty neat trick involving carriers. Hopefully you approve!
Modeling in Revit is mostly used for creating plumbing contract documents. It's not always necessary to model everything unless you are creating an as built model. This video was an exercise at showing how to make Modeling in Revit simple and fast. Having said that I do model the p-traps in other videos.
Sloped piping is not always necessary. Before Revit we used AUTOCAD to produce plumbing plans. We didn't use slopes since we were drawing in 2D. However if you are using the model for coordination for construction you would want to slope your long runs and mains.
@@mep_guyHi ,Everyone nowadays using Revit for coordination drawing, you are teaching in revit so better you can teach with slope piping for the sanitary system. People coming for learning so better if you add this it will be helpful for viewers. If a fresher watching this video means he will do the same in the interview.
