From the course: Revit 2023: Essential Training for MEP

Setting up a plumbing view - Revit MEP Tutorial

From the course: Revit 2023: Essential Training for MEP

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Setting up a plumbing view

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- [Instructor] Before we jump into adding pipes and stuff, we need to start a new model. The objective of this video is to create a plumbing model and take a look at the view settings. In Revit, under Models, let's go New. In the new project dialogue, click Browse. Select the Plumbing Default, click Open, click OK. Let's bring in a Revit model. Go to Insert, go to Link Revit, browse where you're keeping your exercise files, go to Backgrounds, select Architectural. For positioning, make sure it's set to Auto - Internal Origin to Internal Origin, click Open. Select the architectural model, and click the pin icon right here. Click Edit Type and make sure room bounding is checked on. Click Apply, click OK. Hit Escape a few times, now go to Insert, Link Revit, select Structural, positioning will be Auto - Internal Origin to Internal Origin, click Open. The following nested links will not appear because their reference type is set to Overlay in the link Structural.rvt, let's take a look at that. Click Close, which is fine. Hover over this grid line and pause for a second, and make sure it's the Structural model. Select it, click the pin icon, hit Escape a few times. In the project browser, let's scroll down to the bottom 'till we get to Revit Links. Expand Revit Links, notice it says Architectural and Structural. Right-click on the word Revit Links, and let's go to Manage Links. Here we can see that our reference type is set to overlay for both structural and architectural. If it was set to anything different, such as attachment, that means you would see both models when you linked them in, in your other model. We like to keep them set for overlay. For the Path Type, we like to keep that as Relative, click OK. Now in the project browser, under Plumbing, Floor Plans 1 Plumbing, let's make sure we're in 1 Plumbing. Zoom to a lavatory area. Notice you can see bathroom fixtures. We're going to be using these to add plumbing. In the Properties, go to Visibility/Graphic Overrides, and click Edit. It's here that we can turn off things such as air terminals, cable trays, anything that doesn't pertain to plumbing. Noticed on here though, we have plumbing equipment and plumbing fixtures. We want to make sure those are turned on. Click OK. Now for the visibility, halftone underlay settings, that's a little light for me. I want to change that. Go to the Manage tab, go to Additional Settings, go to Halftone / Underlay. For the weight, I'm just going to go with 1. I'd like to apply a halftone but I want to turn that up to 80%, click OK. It's going to darken up our underlay a bit, just enough so we can see it. I really don't care to see this tile hatch pattern, so we're going to go back to Visibility/ Graphic Overrides, scroll down to Floors and click Override for the projection surface patterns. Uncheck both Foreground and Background for visibility click OK, click Apply, click OK. There you go. Save this model somewhere that makes sense to you 'cause we're going to be needing it.

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