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Flexible conduits

Flexible conduits

Here in Australia we are modelling more and more 'sweeping bends' conduits, mainly due to the new NBN (National Broadband Network)

Revit does not allow us to draw a conduit with a radius in one go, we have to attach bends etc, this does not work in this scenario, we need to have one element but this is not possible without drawing an 'in place' family each time, which is totally unviable due to time constraints/changes.

Surely it would not be too hard to draw a conduit from point 'A' to point 'B' as you would a spline in CAD?

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MicG
Autodesk
Anonymous
No aplicable

Guten Tag

Warum kann man die Flex Funktion welche in Lüftung und Rohre existieren nicht auch im Elektro machen? Würde vieles vereinfachen. Dies hatte ich schon vor langem vorgeschlagen. 

Anonymous
No aplicable

Felx pipe/conduit is needed, please add

MuirEng
Collaborator

I would like to echo the need for this. We like to use Revit to model street light and other outdoor electrical systems, mostly because we have all the drawing standards set up and prefer not to change tools unless we need to, and also because the callout features are very helpful. And often we have buildings with associated parking lot lighting and those buildings we are designing in Revit. 

 

Street light ducts are 32mm and easily bend to follow gentle curves. We draw these with model lines at the moment but what we'd really like to see is a flexible duct system that responds to control points and vertexes.. similar to an AutoCAD polyline. 

 

I tried using a flex duct and it sort of works, but I feel the ability to modify the path after it is placed initially is absolutely required. If the system had some knowledge of min bend radius that would be sweet but I'd rather see something soon rather than wait for something really fancy. 

 

Is there an idea posted about this?

 

 

 

 

KotairaKeila
Enthusiast

As it is possible to simply do Flex Duct (FD) and Flex Pipe (FP) in Revit, it would be great if we also have a Flex Conduit possibility (and not the flex pipe edited family originally for Plumbing purposes, or some adaptive generic made up ones).

KotairaKeila
Enthusiast

I have opened a request to be voted on regarding the existence of the flexible conduit, to avoid the alternative use of flex pipes for plumbing purposes or generic adaptive components. Who knows, if more people vote, this old request is prioritized. If you agree too, please, help by voting at the link below:

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/flex-conduits/idi-p/8794216?advanced=false&collapse_discu...

BIMAbhi
Advisor

There is no option for flex conduit in Revit platform, but in actual site condition, conduits are sometimes twisted, slightly bend for coordination purpose. So whenever we try to match those as built conditions (Point cloud), we are getting error warnings. If possible then add flex conduit option or add vertex option in conduit.

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sujanc
Advocate

This is very essential for BIM modeling.

MuirEng
Collaborator
MuirEng
Collaborator

101 votes and counting! Will we see this in a release soon Martin? I'm completely underwhelmed by 2020 but this is a feature that would get us off our 2019 perpetual license. 

Luc_Aebersold_AWBE
Contributor

Hi,

The Idea is that we will have Electrical Flex Pipe in Revit.

When we must modelling 3D pipes in Revit, we don't have an option to modelling flex pipes for this.

We have only the option to modeling "no flex" conduit.

Kind regards.

Zach.Neill
Participant
JMinshall
Observer

We are also in North America and use the NEC.

In addition to the types listed above by Kevin.Laskowski, I'd like to see ENT Electrical Non-mettallic tubing (Smurf tube), which is very similar to the corrugated pvc linked by Sean.Lawrence above. | NEC Article 362 Type ENT

Also type MC cable| NEC Article 330 Type MC

Flexible Metallic Conduit has a designation in the code as FMC | NEC Article 348 Type FMC.

 

As far as the functionality of the different tools flex duct/flex pipe, I haven't had much of a chance to use them, we've been modeling some of our flexible conduits straight with the standard conduit system families.


MicG
Autodesk

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/add-flex-conduit-option-or-add-vertex-option-in-conduit/i...

and also this one. In order to give more relevance, make sure to use the search and vote for existing ideas.

vidhun2RGQB
Explorer

CABLE LAYOUT FOR SUBSTATIONCABLE LAYOUT FOR SUBSTATION

Hi

the above cable layout is done for a subsation project.

does any one have a idea for cable laying , where the cable used is flexible (flexible conduit properties) , restrains to a specific bending radius , and can contain a no. of cable within a master cable which can be seperated for further connection.

 

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in fact, my job very very need to draw the flexible conduit and electrical rubber cable according to the point cloud, but it is not in Revit platform at present, it is so inconvenience.

I hope it will have added soon in next Revit platform or product updates.

rxi.gg
Advisor

If there are flexible pipes and ducts (very useful by the way) Why are there no flexible conduits ? To carry cables are used a lot. It would be interesting to use them.

MuirEng
Collaborator

This is a duplicate of this idea:

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/flexible-conduits/idi-p/6343138

 

Note the identical title. Please search the site before you post. 

 

MuirEng
Collaborator

I called attention this idea during my presentation at the inaugural AutoDesk Building Engineer Virtual Meetup this morning. The vote count was 133 when I took the screen shot for the presentation.... We had 180 participants and I hope some of those people will take the time add their vote. 

rxi.gg
Advisor

Sorry. You're right. Can I delete the post?

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