Autodesk Revit MEP Wishes

[#1]

We need electrical conduit in the worst sort of way. Plumbing has their pipes and mechanical has their duct, but if we are going to truly start modeling our systems in a truly BIM environment, we need the same sort of conduit that you would find in AutoCAD MEP.

[#2]

Vote 2 of year 2009... I hope this gets into the priority items this time around! (Crossing my fingers)

[#3]

Conduit is easy! Just create your conduit type as
you would pipe types. Then create a workset called Electrical piping and make it
curent when you draw. Draw your conduit in that workset and then turn the work
set off in the other views. Thats what we do for all out piping needs such
as electrical, med gas, etc. Make a workset for each.

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Vote
2 of year 2009... I hope this gets into the priority items this time around!
(Crossing my fingers)

[#4]

But that is not the proper way to do it, the proper way is to have an actual conduit tool. I still say real conduit tools are a must.

[#5]

I agree we need electrical conduit. Using the pipe for plumbing is all well and good but the fittings are all different.

[#6]

Another "gotcha" with your scenario is that if the file is linked, the Hosting file cannot make use of the Workset designations in the Linked file. (Unless I have missed something somewhere)

[#7]

Yes - Conduit, we need it.

But it won't be there till at least the next release

So in the meantime - Pipes.

Worksets for visability control though isn't great as you can't control worksets in view templates. The alternative is to add a parameter to the project for 'Pipe Use' - which you can then filter through

[#8]

Conduit and wiring, NOT piping. Conduit and wiring. Other people use duct for faking in conduit also.

[#9]

Use a FILTER called CONDUIT who search for components with the name CONDUIT in them. So you will create a PIPE TYPE called Conduit, and duplicate the elbows, tees, etc and rename them with Conduit, ie Conduit Elbow, Conduit Tee, and on and on. Then you can create a Filter that will look for Pipe Type that has the word Conduit in it.

Works great, even tho it is a workaround. A true conduit object type would be better.

[#10]

A true conduit object type would be better.

Absolutely!