Electrical Systems for Conduit, conduit sweeps and conduit duct bank

[wrtetro]

I do both electrical design and construction coordination.  It would be a huge benefit to have the default systems changed for the conduit service type parameter, i.e, Normal, Emergency, Critical, Life Safety, UPS, etc., the ability to add additional systems as needed, similar to what is done on the M&P side and have these properties transfer to Navisworks for easy filtering.

I know you can change the radius of a conduit bend to simulate an underground sweep that is very commonly done, can you add an option or systems conduit that works like a spline so we can add in these large sweeps.  This would save a ton of time modifying a huge network of direct bury conduit by eliminating the elbows that at time generate errors when using the multi conduit tool.

Also, I used the mechanical duct when doing site work, can we add a duct bank systems family for the electrical side?  Duct bank does not function like mech duct and I have to use a filter when identifying the different site systems.  I do very large medium voltage projects, so this would be a huge help with coordination and usability.

[Anonymous]

I agree, this would make things a lot easier if we had a System Type for conduit and cable tray much like pipe and duct. We all have workarounds but it would be nice to have this feature.

Please add a Duct Bank systems family! Every coordination meeting I get into I have to explain that the Duct Bank for electrical was created with Duct and the alternative is to create an in place family with sweeps which kills time.

Thank you,

Jack Trexler

[BIM.Champ]

I hope they overhaul the conduit and cable tray system families in many ways. This is one aspect that needs implementing,

[Mercedes.Rentz]

This is still a much needed addition that needs to be implemented. Our staff has to model duct banks on every project, and not having this specific category available caused us to come up with work arounds that aren't the greatest. My team has requested this and expressed how urgent this need is.

[Tim_Askelson2]

     Electrical trade Revit modelers would greatly benefit from the implementation of a duct bank systems family for electrical underground utilities.  Currently the best known workflow is to use  the mechanical duct for site work. Our practice is to use filters for identifying the different site systems, where an added service type to the Electrical Systems duct bank family would help with this. much needed addition. It could be created with a new family category type of Electrical Supports, if we could apply a concrete finish material to it, that would be preferred.

     With most greenfield projects and all data center builds we need to come up with work arounds. 

     This addition would not only ease modeling efforts, it would also benefit the coordination efforts and clash detecting results