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Revit MEP 2013
Plumb It, Don’t Plummet
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t starts with a basic question: “Who owns the plumbing fixtures?” The architect places the fixtures, but the engineer/designer specifies and plumbs the fixtures. In a multi-model workflow process, should the fixtures be located in the plumbing model, the architectural model, or both? If they are in both models, is the project fixture count accurate? Is there a chance of the fixture count being doubled? If the plumbing fixtures 14
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are copied into the plumbing model, what happens when there are background changes? Can the architect rely on the plumber to maintain fixture locations, ADA clearances, and so on? After reading the first paragraph, many might think that the software’s Copy/Monitor functionality is the solution. Copy/monitor is very useful with levels and gridlines, but maybe not so much with plumbing fixtures. Copy/monitor will inform you of objects January 2013