How to move and fit exactly a point with pipe with different slope?

[jtm2020hyo]

I tried to model drainage and ventilation pipe, but impossible to move elements with different slope (1% and 0%).

What should I do if i wish to move the vertical pipe (green circle) to the center of the white circle?

... and, how to move elements and not disconnect others like revit?

[Washingtonn · Accepted solution]

You haven't identified what needs to remain in place and what is to move.

You will need to lengthen piping along centerlines and possibly change the elevation and/or rotation of fittings to accomplish what you want to do. Draw a rectangle between the existing vertical pipe centerline and the center of the white circle.  This rectangle gives you the horizontal changes needed (X and Y) but doesn't include slope (Z change).

Be careful - the rectangle may not align with the branch piping orientations which you need to change.

[jtm2020hyo]

Maybe a video sample could help. I tried everything and is almost impossible, and unpredictable.

The only solution I found, for now, was draw a line using the axis, then translate such like as guide for the MEP pipe objects, but this make the work x100 hardest.

[Washingtonn · Accepted solution]

I use a different software package specific for piping instead of AutoCAD MEP so there might be a better procedure for MEP than what the video below shows.  Check your pipe system (Medical Gas?) - there should be alignment tolerances as well as couplings or welds.

[jtm2020hyo]

Could you suggest which software to use?

[Washingtonn]

The video was made USING AutoCAD MEP - which I typically do not use.  The video shows a procedure used with AutoCAD MEP which, as I tried to say, may not be the best one to use with AutoCAD MEP to resolve your issue. 

It is not which software I typically use but rather were you successful in resolving your issue using the procedure shown in the video with your software? (additionally, the software I use works for Imperial units - metric is not available at this time.)

[andkal]

Hello
I see thread is already solved but it you may check out the following plugins that I wrote dedicated to Autocad MEP. I use them a lot in such cases. You can find them also on Autodesk App Store.

AUTOXLINES_MOVE_COPY_STRETCH.
Calculates intersection point without creating XLINES.
http://autolisps.blogspot.com/p/autoxlinesmovecopystretch.html

CONNECT_MEP_OBJECTS
for quick and easy connecting MEP objects
http://autolisps.blogspot.com/p/connectmepobjects.html