Chapter 8: Plumbing Networks

Add Plumbing Pipes

Exercise 20
1. Start Revit 2019

Open the file Exercise_20.rvt

2. Go to Plumbing / Plumbing / Floor Plans / 00 Ground - Plumbing

3. Start Mechanical Settings command

4. Under Pipe Settings, click Angles, from the right, select Use Specific
Angles. Turn off 11.25, and 22.50

5. Go through the other settings related to pipes, then click OK

6. Start Pipe command. The default pipe type is Standard. Click Edit Type,
click Duplicate button, and name the new pipe Copper. Click Edit beside
Routing Preferences. Don’t change any existing settings, and click OK
twice

7. Zoom to the top left of the Cafeteria, you will find main water supply pipe.
Click it, right-click the connector and select Draw Pipe command, make
sure of the following: Pipe Type = Copper, from Options bar, Diameter =
100mm, and Offset =1200mm

8. Draw a pipe to the right 140mm.From Options bar set the offset to be
2900mm, and Diameter = 50mm, then press [Enter], then go down
12800mm. All fittings will be included automatically

9. Click the vertical section (Cafeteria and Toilet section), and extend its
depth to the left to cover all the west wall. Go to the section, change Detail
Level = Fine, so you can see the main water line

10. Go back to 00 Ground – Plumbing

11. Select the water heater at the right, from the context tab, click Connect
Into button. When the dialog box comes up, select Connector 1: Domestic
Cold water, then click the main line. Water heater will be connected right
away using all the necessary fittings

12. Start Pipe command, set the Diameter = 25mm from context tab click
Inherit Elevation button, click the main water line at the north wall of the
Ladies room, and go all the way passing the last water closet at the right

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13. Do the same procedure for the south wall of the Ladies room, the north
wall of the Gents room, and finally at the south wall of the Gents room

14. Go to the 3D view, and set Detail Level to Fine, and look to the pipes you
created

15. Go back to 00 Ground – Plumbing

16. Zoom to the water heater, click it, start a pipe from the hot water
connector, from Options bar set the Offset = 2800mm draw a pipe down
by 100mm. Go to the left until you pass beyond the main cold water pipe,
and stop before the wall. Go down until you reach the north wall of Gents
room, go beyond it by short distance, and finish the command

17. Using the same settings, draw at the south wall of the Ladies room and the
north wall of the Gents room a hot water pipes

18. Zoom to the upper chase, and create three reference planes; two at the
face of each wall, and one at the middle

19. Create a dimension between the three, and click EQ to make sure that
reference plane at the middle will be exactly at the middle. Call the
reference plane CHASE 1

20. Create a section at the middle of chase, and make it look downwards.
Section depth should include the water closets

21. Go to the new section, extend the range of the section to see the whole
building. Set the Detail Level = Fine

22. Go to Systems tab, locate Work Plane panel, click Set button. When the
dialog box comes up, click Name, and select CHASE 1

23. Start Pipe command, select PVC-DWV type. From Options bar, select
Diameter = 100mm. Starting beside the left wall, and beneath 00 Ground
level, start drawing up to the Parapet level

24. Select the pipe you just draw, from Properties change Offset = -500mm,
and set System Type = Sanitary

25. Start Pipe command from Properties, set System Type = Sanitary

26. Using the context tab click Slope Down, Slope Value = 1%, and click Show
Slope Tooltip

27. Below 00 Ground level from right to left draw a horizontal pipe and connect
it to the vertical riser

28. Go back to 00 Ground – Plumbing. Start View Range command, and set
View Depth Level = -600mm. You can see the horizontal pipe

29. Save and close the file

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