plumbing fixture calculation

[htews]

Has anyone been able to create a plumbing fixture calculations schedule ?

[ToanDN]

View > Schedules > Schedule/Quantities: Plumbing Fixtures

What information do you want to show?

[htews]

Like the number of fixtures required per code number fixtures provided for WC, Lavs, DF.  show the calculations per occupancy (business, education, etc) per floor.

[ToanDN]

That's different.  It would be either an Area or a Room schedule, with calculated value to get the required fixture counts based on the occupant loads.  

[barthbradley]

https://ideatesoftware.com/blog/revit-based-plumbing-fixture-calculations-part-i

https://ideatesoftware.com/blog/revit-based-plumbing-fixture-calculations-ii

Doesn't sound like much fun.  

Good luck. 

[htews]

I tried to figure out is the plumbing fixture schedule. Then I was trying to figure out a way similar to what you mentioned. But also was trying to figure out a way to create dummy schedule or a generic schedule where I can just fill out the fields. Worst case I just prayed Bunch text notes and make it look like it's in a schedule

[htews]

Thank you I'll look into that thang probably tomorrow morning right now I'm driving on my way home

[ToanDN]

Use a key schedule if you want a table fill in information manually.

I do think an Area schedule or a property line schedule is a better approach.

[htews]

thats what I ended up doing.  

1 question though, how come a user can't add borders to selected areas within the body of the schedule?

[ToanDN]

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@htews wrote:

thats what I ended up doing.  

1 question though, how come a user can't add borders to selected areas within the body of the schedule?

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Schedule appearance in Revit is not exactly up to snuff.  You can only add the outer border, not selected cells.  AutoCAD tables are much better.

[barthbradley]

So your question was about schedule appearance; not content?   

Wow, I completely misread you.  

Oh well. 

[htews]

originally was the content (see below).  After looking through the links that you sent, I didn't have the time to create all those parameters and formulas.  just trying to create the key schedule using the different parameters and realizing that all the 13 parameters should have been created using the Text 'T/P' (Type of Parameter)instead of the Number T/P.  had the headers/columns setup nicely and realized that one can't use () in the Number field so I had to delete them all and recreate with Text.

but my next question is  how come a user can't add borders to selected areas within the body of the schedule? I had to draw a line for the 'floor total' line.

***edit***  didn't see ToanDN's comment about the schedule appearance. sorry.

[tyronethompson]

I don't know if it's what you're looking for but there is a very informative AU class that might be able to help.

Plumbing Revit MEP: Drop and Go—Let the Information Flow 

At the very least the presenters may be able to help you.

[brian.wardHGDWW]

Short answer is no; but it is not for a lack of trying. 

The main reason is how the minimum plumbing code requirements are written (IBC/IPC 2022) and how Revit aggregates rooms or areas.  Some occupancies, such as Business, requires 1 water closet for every 25 for the first 50 people and then 1 per 50 after that. In order to get an accurate result, all of the rooms or areas in a building need to be aggregated before the formula are applied. To my knowledge, this is not currently possible in Revit.