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Hi James--
A few quick comments:
1. No, there are no valves that are shipped with Revit Systems 1.
2. You mentioned that you imported the boilers from ABS. I assume that you brought these in as solids of some sort. Don't make a practice of this. It is OK initally, but get in the practice of building Families in Revit. I recently was working w/ an A/E firm that had and architectural Revit model that was performing very slowly. It contained chairs, and other furniture, that were brought in as solids and other AutoCAD geometry. After cleaning out the AutoCAD (and modeling purely as Revit geometry), the model started to perform much better, and the file size reduced significantly (45mb to under 20mb).
3. When you select the boiler, each pipe connector should show a square-blue contol at its location on the boiler... right click the control, and select Add Pipe... it will insert the pipe at the correct elevation. To connect to the pipe header, I would work in 2D, and just 'snap' to the pipe at the different elevation. You may want to have multiple views open to see the potential routing solutions.
HTH,
Martin Schmid, P.E.
Autodesk Consulting
Martin Schmid
Product Line Manager
Mechanical Detailing and Electrical Design
Architecture, Engineering, and Construction
Autodesk, Inc.
A few quick comments:
1. No, there are no valves that are shipped with Revit Systems 1.
2. You mentioned that you imported the boilers from ABS. I assume that you brought these in as solids of some sort. Don't make a practice of this. It is OK initally, but get in the practice of building Families in Revit. I recently was working w/ an A/E firm that had and architectural Revit model that was performing very slowly. It contained chairs, and other furniture, that were brought in as solids and other AutoCAD geometry. After cleaning out the AutoCAD (and modeling purely as Revit geometry), the model started to perform much better, and the file size reduced significantly (45mb to under 20mb).
3. When you select the boiler, each pipe connector should show a square-blue contol at its location on the boiler... right click the control, and select Add Pipe... it will insert the pipe at the correct elevation. To connect to the pipe header, I would work in 2D, and just 'snap' to the pipe at the different elevation. You may want to have multiple views open to see the potential routing solutions.
HTH,
Martin Schmid, P.E.
Autodesk Consulting
Martin Schmid
Product Line Manager
Mechanical Detailing and Electrical Design
Architecture, Engineering, and Construction
Autodesk, Inc.
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