Discover how to customize and create appropriate plumbing fixtures in your project using Revit. The article offers a step-by-step guide on how to modify the parameters of plumbing fixtures such as sink islands and lavatory vanities and set up a copy monitor for your project.
Key Insights
- The article provides a detailed process on how to adjust the dimensions of plumbing fixtures such as sink islands and lavatory vanities in your project. This involves duplicating the original fixture, renaming it, and manually editing the type properties.
- Once the desired fixtures are customized, the article explains how to set up a copy monitor. This involves selecting the architectural link under the collaborate tab, adjusting coordination settings, and mapping types of fixtures.
- It's important to note that altering the position of a fixture that is being monitored by the copy monitor triggers a coordination alert. This alert can be addressed through the coordination review by either accepting the difference, postponing, or moving the instance.
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So I know that some of these families don't have the size that we need. So I'm going to, in my project browser here off to the side, I'm going to scroll down to my plumbing fixtures. So go ahead and make sure you go down to plumbing fixtures, click the little plus next to it.
And you'll see that we have the sink island single, which is the one that we want, which is going to be this guy here. Now, if we know, if we don't necessarily know the size, what you can go ahead and do rather than go into the copy monitor, I can go ahead and hover over this tab. So keep tab selecting until I highlight that.
And then it tells me it's 30 × 21. If I look at the type properties, I can look at this here. I can see the width.
I can see the depth. Perfect. Okay.
So I know what I need to create. So I'm going to go to my sink island single. You can see I have an 18 × 18 private and 18 × 18 public.
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I'm going to take the 18 × 18 public. I'm going to right click duplicate. I'm going to go ahead and rename this to be 30.
Let's see here. Sometimes it likes to click off 30 inch by 21 inch and leave it as public. Just because I renamed it though, I need to go ahead and actually edit the type properties.
So again, I'm going to right click on it type properties. So let's go ahead here. Let's go ahead and go to length.
I'm going to space zero space 30. I'm going to type in here, sink width. This would be 21.
So zero space 21. And there we go. So make sure your sink width is one foot nine sink length is two foot six.
Sometimes these parameters, it doesn't, it's not reading the same exact way as the other one is. I know that the other one, I think had a width and depth. This has width and length.
So it's just kind of one of those things that you kind of might have to check it and play with it a little bit. I'm going to hit apply and hit. Okay.
The other one we need to go ahead and edit is going to be lavatory vanity. So I'm going to expand out lavatory vanity. We have, let's see here.
These are going to be two of these here. So it's this guy right here, this lavatory vanity. I'm going to tab select.
It's a 48 × 18. So let's look at the parameters real quick. So the lavatory width is four feet.
Lavatory length is 18 hit. Okay. So I'm going to go ahead and take that 30 × 18, right click.
And I'm using the public one duplicate. I can rename it to be 48 × 18. And again, just because I've changed the name doesn't mean I've changed the parameter.
So again, once I've got that name, correct, I'm going to right click type properties, lavatory length or lavatory width, excuse me. I'm going to go 48 inches or four feet. And there we go.
You also have the connector radiuses. If you wanted to change those, we're going to go ahead and leave those as they are. Everything else here is good.
I'm going to go ahead and hit apply it. Okay. And there we go.
Now we're ready to go ahead and start setting up our copy monitor. So I'm going to go under my collaborate tab. I'm going to go here to copy monitor, select link.
Let's go ahead and select the architectural link. I'm going to go to my coordination settings because I know I need to set up my type mapping. So coordination settings.
I'm going to go back to plumbing fixtures. It remembers what we set previously. I'm going to expand this out and choose type mapping.
Now lavatory vanity, I'm going to go ahead and match that up with the lavatory vanity that I just created. Let's see here. Lavatory vanity, 48 × 18.
Lavatory oval A. We want to find lavatory oval. And this is a 25 × 20, 25 × 20 public. Kitchen sink single.
This one's gonna be a little bit different. We're going to use the sink island single 30 × 21. And we could rename this if we want it to be sink kitchen.
You could rename that. The urinal, I'm going to go ahead and select the urinal and specify it to be a certain, the urinal that's wall hung. So urinal wall hung, let's go with a three quarter inch flush valve and then water closet wall mounted.
We're going to pull down. I'm going to find a water closet, flush valve, wall mounted public, 1.6 gallons per flush. And there we go.
We've set all these up. Just take a look, double confirm that your list is correct. And what we can go ahead and do is if we wanted to just save and close this, we could just save and close it.
But what I want to go ahead and do is I'm going to go ahead and copy. I hit copy. It's going to take a little bit of time.
It's copying all these fixtures and doing everything that we needed to do. And it kind of did some good stuff for us. The problem is that some of these sinks are not in the right location and we can't really move them to where we want to be.
So let's take a look, but we're going to go around and look at all of these other ones. So let's see here. Boom, boom.
So these are all, we all have all these fixtures now, as you can see, which is kind of nice. Now you'll notice, you can tell that they're copy monitored by this symbol right here. This lets us know that it's copy monitored.
If I were to move this, it's going to give me a warning that says coordination alert, relative position of two fixtures have changed. If I wanted to address that alert, let me hit finish up here on my copy monitor. I'm going to finish.
If I go to my coordination review, select link, and I pick on the link relative as two fixtures change, I could either postpone, I could reject, or I could accept difference or move instance. If I hit move instance, I hit apply. That should move it back to where the previous one was.
And then my coordination review is cleared up. When you open up a project that has copy monitor elements, you may get, hey, you need to look at coordination review. This is exactly what it's talking about.
There are a bunch of different actions and comments that you can leave, those kinds of things. And then you can even get like kind of a list to do that. So I'm going to go ahead and hit okay.
There we go. And let's go ahead and stop there. When we come back, we'll fix these other fixtures and we'll keep moving forward.
See you then.