Grouped fittings

[Anonymous]

Hi There,

This is probably a dumb question as I'm fairly new to Revit but I have many projects where I use the same arrangement of pipe fittings time and time again.

An example is a pump discharge where I more or less always use a pipe transition, then a rubber coupling, then a check valve and then an isolating valve.

Rather than build this up everytime, can I build this as a familly or somehting else and then import it when required.

Thanks

Paul  

[L.Maas · Accepted solution]

I would not use this approach. There are a few problems with this . Pipes are system families and thus can not be used in families. You would have to make pieces pipe that will not be the same as the pipes inside your project. Connectors work only in the host family. So you would have to place new connectors inside the host family.

A better solution might be to create your standard assembly in a project. Group the assembly. Save that group to your library. Wheneven you need that assemble you can load that group, see load as group on the insert tab of the ribbon. In the project you can then (if needed) ungroup it again

Another approach would be to make it part of your project template.

[Anonymous]

Thanks!