ARCHIOLOGICS BASIC REVIT MEP - CRASH COURSE
ADOLFO NADAL SERRANO MAS. ARCHITECT - ARCHI [O] LOGICS
instance, you will not be able to create fittings with a radius smaller than 110 mm. You can see those settings in the Electrical Setting (type ES) section, under conduits. Please refer to the characteristics listed in the “Size” dialog for the options you can set. Let us see how to use the conduit tool. Click on Conduit and make sure that you have the “Automatically Select” option active. Click on the middle segment of the cable tray, and start drawing on that precise level. If you need to increment the heigh of the conduit (this is, if you need to create a vertical segment), just use the offset option: enter the height you need and click apply. This way you will be able to create your conduits with any possible distribution. Please make sure that your conduits and your trays do not intersect.
[Fig 9. Cable tray options and layouts]
[Fig 10. Cable sizing options]
One serious advantage of modeling these equipment is creating informational tables, schedules, and others. Have a look at the different categories that you can obtain information from when dealing with conduits and trays. Quantity schedules normally ignore this, whereas they account for a large amount of the total building costs -especially HVAC equipment is very relevant to the total building costs and maintenance of buildings. Check that you have a similar layout to the one that we show on figure 10. Now you might need to know how to edit joint boxes, or connect several conduits at once. This is possible in Revit by using Conduit Junction Boxes. These are families that consist of normally simple-shaped boxes that host one or more connections. As you will see later, each face can only host one connector, so you will need to subdivide faces if you want or need to have several connectors at once.
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