Modifying the direction and slope of piping in Revit

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NARRATOR: Modifying the direction and slope

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of piping in Revit.

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In this video, we're going to change a piping run that is not

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sloped so that it slopes outside the building the way

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we want it.

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We will also see what happens when a pipe run is connected

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to a stack, and how to try to modify individual pipe slopes

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which may cause some issues.

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I'm working in the small Medical Center in a sanitary plan,

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and I can see I have some sanitary piping,

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but I'm not really sure how it's working.

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So first off, I'm going to view the section as it

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goes through the exam rooms.

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And I can see that the sanitary piping is not

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sloping in this view and I need to correct that.

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First to help me see what's happening in both cases,

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I'm going to tile the views.

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I'm typing WT for window tile and then

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I'm going to set up my view so that I

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can see the part of the building where I want to see it.

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To change the slope, it's important to select

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an entire run of pipe that you want to slope.

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In this case, it's fairly easy because I have not yet

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connected the pipe to any fixtures.

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You hover over one section of the pipe and press Tab

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until the entire run is highlighted, and then

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click to select it.

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Now in the modified multi select Tab,

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I can choose the slope option.

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This opens the slope editor.

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And in the slope editor, I can set the slope value

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and the slope control point.

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In the plan view, you can see that there

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is an arrow on one end of the pipe.

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The arrow shows the direction of the positive rise.

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I can click slope control point and it

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switches to the other end of the run of pipe.

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I'm going to click the slope control point again

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so it rises from the outside point.

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Then I'm going to set the slope value to 1/8 of an inch to 12

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and click Finish.

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There's a Warning about an open connection

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but we don't need to worry about that now.

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If you are working with a run of pipe that ends in a stack,

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there is a difference in how the slope editor works.

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So I'm going to have--

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I have a stack here and I'm going

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to expand my length of pipe so that touches the stack.

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Now I'm going to highlight my run of pipe,

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select it and change the slope.

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You can see that I can change the slope value but I cannot

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change the slope control point.

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Slope pipe always runs down if it's connected to a stack.

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I'm just going to cancel out of this.

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Now one last thing, we need to check

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when we're using sloped pipe is the controls

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on individual pipes.

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You can change these in the section view

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as you can see here, I have several controls.

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You can also change it in the plan view

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but it's easier to see in section in this view.

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I can set in Stark control let's say

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I want to say this will be like maybe 1 foot 6 down.

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It changed my slope.

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That's not exactly what I want.

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So maybe I can come and change this one,

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change this and offset to try and get it right.

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Or I could actually change the slope itself,

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have to Zoom in a little bit closer to that.

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There's the angle of the slope.

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Now I can change the slope itself so that's one foot 8.

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But you can see because of the other changes that I've made,

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it's still not working.

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Now my overrides, my end offset override

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is what's controlling that.

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So let's put that back up to one so it's now

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sloped in the right direction.

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I could undo that as well.