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Modelling Revit Pipes at a Vertical 45 Degree Angle

By Nicholas Bowley, IMAGINiT Building Solutions

Modelling pipes in Revit at a 45 degree angle is necessary for a variety of situations. Lucky for us the trick to be able to do this is easy.

Here are a few examples of when you may need to do this:

 

Steps to add a slope for 45˚

1. Go to Manage / MEP Settings


2. Find Slopes in the list of Settings and add a New Slope at 12”/12”.

3. When modelling piping, toggle the 12”/12” slope as necessary.

Now you will have the new slope to choose from while modeling pipe. In addition to ease of use, adding a new angle helps reduce the risk that the pipe will be drawn on an angle slightly less or more than intended.

Stop Spending Time on Non Value-Added Tasks

It’s an unfortunate reality that design teams often spend significant amounts of time on necessary, but non-value-added tasks. A recent survey we conducted found, for example, that over 50% of designers, engineers, and construction professionals always or very often print PDFs to check the design process. Printing sheet sets is compute intensive and can tie up computers for hours. Other manual, labor intensive tasks include the time BIM Coordinators spend cleaning up and exchanging Revit models with partners, as well as creating room and equipment data sheets.

Inefficiency doesn’t have to be the norm, however. Companies that are using IMAGINiT Clarity find that task automation frees valuable time for teams. Architecture firm RLF, for instance, automatically generates PDF files nightly and each evening over 40 tasks are run. Data aggregated from Clarity users shows that IMAGINiT Clarity saves teams on average 205 hours per project. That translates into 25 work days per project.

If your team could save that amount of time on every project, how would you deploy resources in more productive ways? The possibilities are endless, but popular options are taking on additional project work, spending more time on new business development, and differentiating the firm from the competition by delivering results to clients faster.

Bring in Only the Worksets You Want

By Jordan Mussett, IMAGINiT Building Solutions

Happy New Year! In the spirit of starting a new year, here is an important tip for starting your Revit projects.

There is now an option for Revit projects to choose the worksets coming in from your other linked files you would like to work with. This is the perk of opening up a Revit file that you receive from a consultant and check it out before you link it to yours and use it. You can explore the worksets and see if there is any way you can use them. Personally, I always always maintain the worksets of files I receive when I open it because I want to see how other companies are utilizing their worksets and I want to see if there is anything I can leverage. Some projects may benefit from the reassignment of MEP shared categories being added to a specific workset during model clean up. But you don’t necessarily need to make a bunch of changes in a consultant file to leverage workset data in it.

This project's architectural file has a significant amount of entourage in it. Entourage that the MEP disciplines are not interested in at all. There are quite a few trees at the very least.

I will start a new project from my company’s mechanical template, skipping worksharing for the sake of being brief, and go straight to Link Revit. Navigate to the file and drop down the open options to specify which worksets you want.

The information from the linked Revit project comes through, minus the workset that was closed.

This operation should always make your model more lean and mean. Project load times may be significantly improved and object visibility of shared categories can be more easily controlled.