Connecting Domestic Water Lines for Plumbing Fixtures in Revit: BIM 321 Course Video Tutorial

Welcome back to the CAD Teacher VDCI video course content for the BIM 321 course. In the previous videos we went ahead and got our drinking fountains all lined in and we started on our second floor getting the plumbing together. What I want to go ahead and do now is extend these longer supply lines so that we can start connecting everything in.

So with the hot water we don't really need to go that far as we did on the second floor, we only need to get all these four sinks. So I'm going to go ahead and take this guy out here, about there, grab that grip, there we go. I'm going to go ahead and select this and I need to take this all the way down to the end of the building.

Take it to about here and there we are. Now let's go ahead, I'm going to take my section view and I'm going to rotate it again. So I'm going to select here, right click, I'm going to rotate and I'm going to do a 90 degree rotation.

So I'm going to start to see the edge here. And again I'm going to make this another sliver cut and adjust my section view so that I'm only seeing really what I need to see. So as you can see there, I'm going to go ahead and bring these together.

And I want to go ahead and actually tie these into one supply and then run them up. So I'm going to go ahead and delete this and this, there. I'm going to go ahead and expand this guy out here.

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I'm going to draw just a little piece of pipe. And then see if we can trim those together. Perfect, which we can.

There we go. I'm going to go ahead now and align to the center line of this pipe here to here. And I can take it up, run it straight up.

I'm going to connect those two together. I'm going to come here, my next one. I'm going to pull both of these here.

I'm going to go ahead and delete this vertical and this edge here. Do my little plus sign. And I can also drag it over without having to draw that little piece of pipe.

I'm going to go ahead and align, pick here and here. And then just drag this guy up and connect it. Perfect.

I'm going to go here. This one will be a little bit different. I'm going to go ahead and align this first.

So I'm going to go AL for align and align to the center line of the pipe here. I'm going to go ahead and bring it all the way up and tap it in. And then I can go ahead, I'm going to just draw a pipe.

Bring it straight over and tap it in there. And everything looks great. We've got all of our plumbing fixtures already connected.

I can go ahead, if I wanted to, if I wanted to reduce the size here, I can do that. Okay. Everything looks great.

Let's go ahead and work on our sinks. So I'm going to slide down to my first set of sinks. And for right now, I'm just going to focus on one side.

And I want to kind of only see one connector right now. So I'm going to pick here, right click, draw pipe. Bring it over and up.

And go right here, right click, draw pipe. Bring it over. Now, one thing we can't bring it up right away is because of the fact that they're right in line with one another.

So I'm going to have to take this pipe and I'm just going to angle it out a little bit similar to what we did on the first floor. Or on the second floor, excuse me. Right click, draw pipe.

And there we go. I'm going to go ahead and move my section down just a little bit. And actually, let's go ahead and tie these in.

So I'm going to pull that back. I'm going to go ahead, right click, draw pipe. Go straight up.

I'm going to go ahead and align again to the center line of the pipe. And drag it up. There we are.

I'm going to go ahead, grab my section, come over here. Let's go ahead and align this to the center line of the pipe. And then drag it straight up.

There we are. I'm going to go ahead and move on to my next set of connections. And if I wanted to say slide this over a little bit because I don't want to just take up that much space, I can go ahead and grab that now and adjust it.

I'm going to go ahead and take this hot water. And this one comes straight off. Draw pipe.

Come over and up. Again, even though I was pretty close to the center line of the pipe, I want to make sure. So I'm going to AL, pick here and here, just to make sure that they're aligned.

Revit likes it when you do that. And there we are. And again, if I wanted to make this connection shorter, I can always adjust this too.

There we are. I'm going to go ahead, take this guy, right click, draw pipe. And I'm going to go ahead and then angle this guy out again.

Angle of 45. Right click, draw pipe. And what I could do here is I could actually just click on this here, on the center line of the pipe, and it's going to automatically tie everything in for me.

You're not seeing it in the section because my section cut doesn't go that far. If I just made my section cut go a little bit farther, there it is. Let's also go ahead and make that a little bit shorter.

There we go. I'm actually going to go ahead real quick and check my other ones so that they are all kind of at the same height. Let's check my other hot water here.

And there we go. I want to go ahead now, slide down to my next sink. I'm going to go ahead and see only one of my connections on the side.

It just tends to make it easier. Yes, I could have seen both, but it just tends to make it easier if I have just the one. Select here, right click, draw pipe.

I'm going to go ahead and take this over and up. Let's go ahead and align that together there and there. I'm going to go ahead and drag it up.

I want to go ahead now and take my hot water here. Right click, draw pipe. I'm going to bring it out just a little bit.

Go back to my plan view and rotate it. Right click, draw pipe. And then I could just tie it in that way right there.

Let's go ahead and shorten these up real quick. Beautiful. There's that.

I'm going to go ahead and go here now and slide my section down just a little bit so I can see the next set of stuff. I'm going to go ahead. I'm seeing the fitting up here.

That's why it looks like that little weird view. If you didn't want to see that fitting, I'd just slide past the fitting. Now it just looks like a normal pipe.

I want to go ahead, grab here, right click, draw pipe. I need to go ahead and 45 this one out just a little bit. Right click, draw pipe, and tie it in right there.

I can go ahead and slide that down if I wanted to. I'm just using my directional arrows. There we are.

Again, I'm running this pipe in such a fashion that it may not necessarily be the way that they run it in the field, but we're also here teaching you guys how to connect these pipes, and the repetition is very, very good. They may combine these drops into one single drop for both sinks. That could be a very real-world way that they would connect these different systems together.

I'm going to go ahead and right click here, draw pipe, bring it over, bring it up. Let's go ahead and align there and there. Drag up.

It didn't quite get there, so I'm going to zoom in a little closer, and there we are. Let's go ahead and shorten these guys up just a little bit. I'm going to go AL for align, and align those together.

The one thing that you may want to do, though, is let's go ahead and look at all of these together, these hot and cold waters. Do you see how they're slightly different because we didn't do them at the same time? We can just go back here. Obviously, we want all these pipes running at the same elevation, so I'm just going to move them up until they're all at the same elevation, which they are now.

Awesome. We've gone ahead, gotten all of the domestic water piping actually already completed, all of the drinking fountains tied in. What we're going to go ahead and do next is I'm going to pause this video here.

In the next series of videos, we're going to go ahead and actually start with the waste piping. See you then.