Wow Jeff! Glad to see you making an attempt at plumbing in Revit! Id love to be a guest on the show and maybe get into a little more in depth with plumbing using Revit. There is so much to learn!
Hi, nice video and a great introduction to Revit MEP! Here’s a tip: Turn off the animation on your view cube so it snaps directly to the top view. It’s a game changer when modeling in 3D!
In spain, architects are prepared and authorized to do everything, from plumbing to structural design and calculation towards final approval and construction. That doesn't mean that they end up outsourcing that to others for assurance as we already have a lot on our shoulders for each project. For efficiency i would preffer to keep diagramatic installations defining the segments and widths that have been calculated. Now i will think about keep it as detailed as yours. Good work. Your drawings are very sexy.
We create high end Revit family content for manufacturers, where we make multi tee pieces. This T-piece has shared nested reducers and bends and thus can create an assembled connection of a t-piece, reducer and bend in one. because they are shared nested they will be scheduled. Same with a multi bend, 2 bends in one container family.
love the videos! Jeff, did you modify your line weights or are you working with the default line weights from Revit? your drawing lines look super nice.
Maybe different countries have different perceptions. For me, it is disgusting to connect the sink/floor drain (WP) and toilet drain (SP) together early. (the smell may waft out when washing hands) If this just draw it casually to show the function, that’s fine. Otherwise, there will be a smell if the bathtub and floor drain heads do not have traps.
Every fixture will have a trap and has to by code… there is absolutely no reason to give each fixture its own drain line. I did not model the traps in this video.
@@TheRevitKid In addition, some drainage pipes do not have traps. Like fire hydrant boxes and air-conditioning drainage (if the air-conditioning is not turned on in winter, it will be ineffective as long as there is no water) Some buildings don’t understand and think they are all drains and then connect them together. This is very dirty.
@ Every plumbing fixture needs a vent. Field inspectors will expect it, even though codes offer illustrations of venting alternatives. I’ve only seen floor drains in residential bathrooms in projects based in Australia. The routing is good. I liked that you showed what is usually hidden behind walls and under floors.
@@gooberfishin I’ve since updated this quite a bit but this is a horizontal wet vent configuration… so not every fixture needs a dedicated vent in this case.
Beautiful to see you try, but the pipe slope segment is so cringe to see as a MEP designer on Revit. When you do your pipe command, in the ribbon, you have a slope menu. But as a architect, dont bother about the slope (i know a lot of MEP designer who dont even do it).
I design plumbing in Revit for a living and have to say - Revit sucks it in a big way! Though using AI for creating connection from point A to point B would be enough.
I design plumbing in Revit for a living as well. I'm curious what you're encountering that makes you think it sucks. It's great for me. I do design and shop drawings for various buildings in NY and NJ. Currently working on 4 hospitals.
@@spbaird Interesting. Firstly, it often refuses to connect pipe elements, even though you know that such a connection is possible in reality. I use families from reputable manufacturers (Wavin, Pipelife, ...). You set some deflection allowance in the connections, but Revit still struggles with it and fails to model the piping. If you're not modeling pipes in nice straight lines but need to change the direction of the route with small deviations and ideally assemble it from real-world components available on the market, or if you need a tee turned not at 90° but at other angles, Revit has huge issues with that. I found an excellent plug-in, Naviate HVAC & Plumbing, that includes great features that reduce frustration when modeling pipes. But here's the issue - these features should have been part of Revit long ago, not something for which I have to pay big money to another company that essentially compensates for Autodesk's shortcomings.
@@lourenssmids3273 I wish! I use families created by leading pipe system manufacturers. I believe they are made as well as possible, yet I blame Revit for not allowing families enough flexibility and variability to model piping with numerous small directional changes, various branching angles, and so on, as is often the case in reality.
Wow Jeff! Glad to see you making an attempt at plumbing in Revit! Id love to be a guest on the show and maybe get into a little more in depth with plumbing using Revit. There is so much to learn!
Hi, nice video and a great introduction to Revit MEP!
Here’s a tip: Turn off the animation on your view cube so it snaps directly to the top view. It’s a game changer when modeling in 3D!
Yes, view cube can be super helpful for sure!!
In spain, architects are prepared and authorized to do everything, from plumbing to structural design and calculation towards final approval and construction. That doesn't mean that they end up outsourcing that to others for assurance as we already have a lot on our shoulders for each project.
For efficiency i would preffer to keep diagramatic installations defining the segments and widths that have been calculated.
Now i will think about keep it as detailed as yours.
Good work. Your drawings are very sexy.
Cheers! Don't forget you can model it in 3D but also show it as linework (just go toa Coarse view).
Love your stuff man, understood it clearly!
Cheers!!!!
We create high end Revit family content for manufacturers, where we make multi tee pieces. This T-piece has shared nested reducers and bends and thus can create an assembled connection of a t-piece, reducer and bend in one. because they are shared nested they will be scheduled. Same with a multi bend, 2 bends in one container family.
if you want some more info or knowledge about that, I am willing to share some stuff
love the videos! Jeff, did you modify your line weights or are you working with the default line weights from Revit? your drawing lines look super nice.
Is there any channel like this for MEP Revit??
nice
Please start electrical power and then HVAC
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Could you please share revit files
@@amratef3134 as I mentioned in the video … all of my Revit file are available to members of my community … community.bimafterdark.com
Maybe different countries have different perceptions.
For me, it is disgusting to connect the sink/floor drain (WP) and toilet drain (SP) together early. (the smell may waft out when washing hands)
If this just draw it casually to show the function, that’s fine.
Otherwise, there will be a smell if the bathtub and floor drain heads do not have traps.
I do not see any problem with it, since every unit needs to have its own trap.
Every fixture will have a trap and has to by code… there is absolutely no reason to give each fixture its own drain line. I did not model the traps in this video.
@@TheRevitKid In addition, some drainage pipes do not have traps.
Like fire hydrant boxes and air-conditioning drainage (if the air-conditioning is not turned on in winter, it will be ineffective as long as there is no water)
Some buildings don’t understand and think they are all drains and then connect them together. This is very dirty.
You Make Plumbing look sexy! 🥰
The waste and vent are not to code. So, a starter example. Not a real world example. Still love The Revit Kid though.
@@gooberfishin is that right…?
@ Every plumbing fixture needs a vent. Field inspectors will expect it, even though codes offer illustrations of venting alternatives. I’ve only seen floor drains in residential bathrooms in projects based in Australia. The routing is good. I liked that you showed what is usually hidden behind walls and under floors.
@@gooberfishin I’ve since updated this quite a bit but this is a horizontal wet vent configuration… so not every fixture needs a dedicated vent in this case.
Beautiful to see you try, but the pipe slope segment is so cringe to see as a MEP designer on Revit. When you do your pipe command, in the ribbon, you have a slope menu. But as a architect, dont bother about the slope (i know a lot of MEP designer who dont even do it).
Haha! Yes... My pipes are actually sloped in my project... Just didnt want to get into that live! Noted for all the Engineers out there... ;)
@@TheRevitKid Believe me, its less painful to see architects doing slopes than me doing stairs :)
@ haha! I did forget to mention the toggle to turn on slopes when modeling … but hey, it’s live.
its when you get into sloping pipes is when revit breaks ALOT!
I design plumbing in Revit for a living and have to say - Revit sucks it in a big way! Though using AI for creating connection from point A to point B would be enough.
it is all about good quality content, with good content it is perfect.
I design plumbing in Revit for a living as well. I'm curious what you're encountering that makes you think it sucks. It's great for me. I do design and shop drawings for various buildings in NY and NJ. Currently working on 4 hospitals.
@@spbaird Interesting. Firstly, it often refuses to connect pipe elements, even though you know that such a connection is possible in reality. I use families from reputable manufacturers (Wavin, Pipelife, ...). You set some deflection allowance in the connections, but Revit still struggles with it and fails to model the piping. If you're not modeling pipes in nice straight lines but need to change the direction of the route with small deviations and ideally assemble it from real-world components available on the market, or if you need a tee turned not at 90° but at other angles, Revit has huge issues with that.
I found an excellent plug-in, Naviate HVAC & Plumbing, that includes great features that reduce frustration when modeling pipes. But here's the issue - these features should have been part of Revit long ago, not something for which I have to pay big money to another company that essentially compensates for Autodesk's shortcomings.
@@lourenssmids3273 I wish! I use families created by leading pipe system manufacturers. I believe they are made as well as possible, yet I blame Revit for not allowing families enough flexibility and variability to model piping with numerous small directional changes, various branching angles, and so on, as is often the case in reality.
Why don't you try it in more logical way? You cannot connect the bathtub to the sewage system like this!