topic Re: Ductwork justification issues in Revit MEP Forum

Ductwork justification issues

danhornsby — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 11:45:47 GMT

Hi,

I am drawing ductwork in Revit and I would like all my ductwork to be justified Horizontal Centre and Vertical Top.

However I can only get Revit to draw the ductwork Horizontal Centre and Vertical Middle. I have tried using the 'justify; tool after drawing the ductwork and this doenst work either. All it does is slope the duct rather than change the justification, see section image below:

The above was drawn in Revit 2016 using the supplied mechanical template.

If anyone can help it'd be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Re: Ductwork justification issues

Matt__W — Wed, 13 Apr 2016 12:39:20 GMT

Are you just selecting the ONE duct? Or multiple segments to align them all the same?? Maybe this will help.

Also, you can change the justification of the duct PRIOR to modeling it.

Re: Ductwork justification issues

danhornsby — Wed, 13 Apr 2016 13:04:38 GMT

Hi,

I'm selecting multiple segments, thanks for the link I have already read it and also watched this video

I have already tried setting the justification prior to drawing the ducts which ends in the same result as the image supplied above.

Thanks

Dan

Re: Ductwork justification issues

SteveKStafford — Wed, 13 Apr 2016 17:04:16 GMT

I've experimented with both sketching duct with changing Justification settings first and using Justification on duct that is already placed using different settings than I want. In either case Revit is playing along with my wishes. I'm using the very latest Updates and version R2 for 2016 so we may be using different versions or have different patches applied. There might also be something you're doing that I'm not doing because I'm not seeing each step you are taking.

Bottom line...it should work as advertised.

Re: Ductwork justification issues

Orsolya.Balazs — Tue, 19 Apr 2016 14:11:56 GMT

Hi Dan,

I see that there were a couple of suggestion here (thank you Matt and Steve), let me add one more note.

A possible scenario is that the transition that is in the routing preference doesn't support eccentric offsets it is forced to be concentric. Try to load one of the transitions shipped with the product (for example M_Rectangular Transition - Angle.rfa) and change the routing preference to use the transition. This way it may work as expected. I have recorded a short movie: http://autode.sk/1Ssmfg3

Re: Ductwork justification issues

Mahmoud.Ziedan — Tue, 19 Apr 2016 14:31:14 GMT

Dear,

Your duct is not straight,it is inclined.When one of the ducts is inclined I think you will face problems.

Kindly if this solved your issue,accept as solution to help others.

Re: Ductwork justification issues

danhornsby — Wed, 20 Apr 2016 07:54:26 GMT

Hi Orsolya,

Your solution has worked, although I couldn't find the file you suggested anywhere on my system and had to get it from seek.

Should it be included as part of the UK library?

Thanks for your help.

Dan