Chapter 8: Plumbing Networks

Modify Plumbing Pipes

Exercise 21
1. Start Revit 2019

2. Open the file Exercise_21.rvt

3. Go to Plumbing / Plumbing / Floor Plan / 00 Ground – Plumbing

4. Zoom into the three sinks in the Ladies Room. Change Detail Level = Fine

5. Select the left sink. From context tab, click Connect Into button, select
Domestic Cold Water, then select the blue pipe

6. Do the same thing with the middle sink

7. Do the same thing for the left and middle sink for Domestic Hot Water

8. Click the right sink, click the icon of the cold water connector, and go to the
cold water pipe, when you reach the center of the pipe click to specify the end
of the pipe

9. Do the same procedure for the hot water as well

10. Create a section just like the following:

11. Call the new section “Ladies Sinks”, and set the Sub-Discipline to be Plumbing

12. Go to 3D Plumbing View

13. Duplicate it. Call the Duplicate 3D Plumbing - Ladies Sinks

14. Using the ViewCube, right-click select Orient to View / Sections / Gents Sinks

15. Set Detail Level = Fine

16. You will notice that the left sink hot water is not correct

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17. Delete the horizontal hot water connecting the left sink, along with the elbow,
and the pipe coming out of the sink

18. Go back to Plumbing / Plumbing / Floor Plan / 00 Ground – Plumbing

19. Click the left sink, , click the icon of the hot water connector, and go to the hot
water pipe, when you reach the center of the pipe click to specify the end of the
pipe

20. Go back 3D Plumbing - Ladies Sinks to see that the problem is solved

21. As for the right sink, delete the T fitting, and using the Trim/Extend to Corner,
create a new fitting

22. If you zoom up you will find another T fitting for the cold water pipe, delete it,
and delete the horizontal pipe and any other fitting, use Trim/Extend to Corner
to get a new fitting

23. Select the top horizontal cold water with the T fittings, and change diameter to
be 15mm

24. Do the same thing for top horizontal hot water with the T fittings

25. Cap any pipe needed capping

26. Link the sinks in the Gents Room in the cold and hot water pipes

27. Link water closets in both Ladies Room, and Gents Room, along with the
Urinals to the cold water

28. Go to Section 1

29. Connect the three water closet in 00 Ground floor to the main horizontal
sanitary pipe

30. Create a duplicate of the Plumbing 3D, and call it 3D Plumbing– Water Closets

31. Create a 3D section for Section 1

32. Go to Section 2, and connect Water Closet and Urinals to the Sanitary pipe

33. Create Camera inside the Gents Room to see the new connections

34. Go back 00 Ground – Plumbing view

35. Create a new section, just like the following:

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36. Call the new section “Ladies Sinks -2”, and set the Sub-Discipline to be
Plumbing. Go to the new section

37. Click the sink, from the icon of the sanitary connection, create a 150mm pipe,
then go to the right penetrating the wall to the middle, you will discover that
Revit create a normal elbow

38. Go to Insert tab, click Load Family button, go to Pipe / Fittings / PVC / Sch 40 /
Socket-Type / DWV and load M_Trap P - PVC - Sch 40 - DWV.rfa

39. Select the elbow, you will find that the P-Trap is not listed. The reason is P-
Trap is not defined as an elbow

40. Start Pipe Fitting command, and insert the P-Trap anywhere in the model

41. Double-Click it to go to the Family Editor. From Properties, under Mechanical

for Part Type select Elbow. Save As the new family and call it My_P-Trap.rfa

42. Click Load into Project and Close button

43. Go back to Ladies Sinks -2 view, delete the stranded P-Trap

44. Select the elbow, from Type selector, select My_P-Trap Standard

45. Draw more pipes just like the following:

46. Save and close the file

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