Connecting pipes to sloped piping

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NARRATOR: Connecting pipes to sloped piping in Revit.

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In this video, we will connect into sloped

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piping using several different techniques,

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including modifying the length of a pipe,

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adding a pipe fitting, and copying a group of pipes

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and aligning them to the correct angle.

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

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I have a run of sloped sanitary pipe going out the building.

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And now I want to connect the sink sanitary piping

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into the sloped pipe.

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I also have a section view open and tiled

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so you can see how the pipes connect.

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In this section, I'm zooming in on a set of two things.

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And all I'm going to do is lengthen the down pipe

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so that it touches the sloped pipe.

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The intersection automatically cleans up just

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like any other connection and applies the correct fitting.

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So in this case, there's no difference

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between working with a sloped pipe and pipes with no slope.

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Now I'm panning over to the next set of sinks.

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You can see I have set up the sanitary piping along with a P

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trap for each of the sinks.

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If I try to lengthen this pipe to touch the sloped pipe,

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I get an error that cannot be ignored.

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The resulting angle between the segments

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is too great or too small.

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And then number 2, the specified angles

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are not compatible with the current layout.

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Therefore I'm going to cancel to get out of this.

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In the plan view, I'm going to Zoom

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in closer to the set of the four sinks.

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So you can see that there are two sets of down pipes

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that actually need to be connected.

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I want to have more control over these intersections.

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So I'm going to try a different way.

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First I'm going to add a pipe fitting.

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In the Systems tab on the plumbing and piping panel,

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I'm clicking pipe fitting.

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Then in the type selector I'm choosing

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the y 45 degree reducing double sitting so you can see here.

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I'm placing the sitting on the sloped pipe,

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but I can see it's going the wrong way.

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But in the section view, you can see

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that it is following the slope.

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So I'm going to press modify to end the command

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and then select the fitting again.

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Now I can use of flip control and have

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it face the other direction.

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Now I want the fitting to be in the exact right

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spot, 45 degrees from the down pipes of the sink.

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To do this, I'm going to add a reference plane.

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And the system's tab I'm going to click reference plane.

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Then I'm selecting the end point of the down pipe

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and drawing the reference plane 45 degrees from this.

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Now I can gently drag the fitting to the reference plane

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as you see here.

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Next I will draw a short bit of pipe

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off the fitting in each direction.

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This will save me time in the next step.

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In this example, I did not slope these pipes.

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But when a very tight situation, it

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would be good to have the sloped accurately

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as it could impact coordination with other elements.

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Now we are ready to get to the magic of Revit working

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but first I'm going to open another 3D

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view, the 3D plumbing section this one has a section

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box around it.

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So you can see that I'm just seeing

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this part of the building.

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I'm zooming in on one side of the sinks,

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and then I can use the trim and extend command

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to create the connection.

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So there's my existing connection,

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now I'm going to go to trim extend to corner.

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And I'm selecting one of my pipes,

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the other pipe connects nicely.

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And then I repeat this on the other side.

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Finally to connect the next set of pipes to the sloped pipe,

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I'm going to follow the same process.

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But instead I'd rather copy the items up.

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So in plain view, I'm selecting the y fitting

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and the pipes connected to the y but not the entire grouping.

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Don't forget to hold control down when you copy it.

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Then I'm going to click the Copy command,

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and I'm clicking one sync.

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And then I'm going to scroll up here and click that same point

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on the other sync.

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Now this looks fine in plain view but let's

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check what it is in section.

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And you can see the copy did not recognize the slope.

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But no problem, I can use the online tool

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to get the fitting into place.

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So I'm clicking align, and then in the 3D view

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and making sure I get my pipe.

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And then I'm going to use the other part of the alignment

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and get my linemen into shape.

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Now I want to modify the end of this I pull it back.

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But watch out that does bad things if you do it in section.

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So I'm going to undo, zoom into my plan view,

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and now pull it back and I can grab the node

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that it needs to be connected to,

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and it stays in slope and the slope pattern.

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Finally, I'm going to go back to my 3D view,

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scroll over, and come in here and align my pipes.

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It would also be good to add an end cap to the open pipe run

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under the last pair of sinks.

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And now you can see my entire pipe, sanitary pipe network

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connected to sloping pipes.