topic Re: Revit Duct Fittings in Revit MEP Forum

Revit Duct Fittings

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Nov 2016 12:23:35 GMT

Hi Greetings of the day,

I want to add a duct fitting that should be visible in Mechanical settings in Specific angle.

Is it possible please let me know.

Thanks in advance

Re: Revit Duct Fittings

rudi.roux — Wed, 23 Nov 2016 14:12:29 GMT

Hi @Anonymous,

I'm not sure if I understand exactly what you're after, but you use the standard elbows and settings you can move the duct run around at specific angles to achieve the desired result. You can also view the current angles in the Properties Pallet. I attached the default Imperial Elbows for you.

Different Elbow, different angle:

Mechanical Settings and Angles:

I hope this helps!

Re: Revit Duct Fittings

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Nov 2016 07:10:56 GMT

Hi Rudi,

Thanks for your response,

Am asking i need a angle to be added in these settings please look at the picture.

Thanks

Regards,

Rakesh singh

Re: Revit Duct Fittings

Jacob_United — Thu, 24 Nov 2016 07:59:29 GMT

I'm not sure how to do that, but could you get away with just setting your angle increment to 15°?

Re: Revit Duct Fittings

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Nov 2016 08:00:51 GMT

You not able to add angles to the "use specific angles" list.

You can either changes the "set an angle increment" to be a at 15 degree increments, if you don't use the 22.5 or 11.5 angle

Constrain the duct elbow fitting to only be able to create fittings of angles you specify.

I use a Yes/No shared instance parameter within the family, with a small formula checking for standard fitting angles, which I can then create a schedule to go back and check whether I need need to have that custom elbow or not.

Re: Revit Duct Fittings

rudi.roux — Thu, 24 Nov 2016 09:32:42 GMT

Hi @Anonymous,

As @Anonymous and @Jacob_United already mentioned, the quickest "Out of the Box" solution the achieve your desired result would be to use the "Set an angle increment" under the mechanical settings.

Below is just to illustrate how this can be used. (I used an angle of 7.5° as you would then be able to use all of the specified angels, apart from the 11.25° angle). But, you might choose to use 15°.

Then, you can start to draw the ducting, although the duct angel to be placed is at 58°, as shown below, it would automatically be constrained to the next angle increment, which would be 60°.

I hope this helps!