adding a loose device to a circuit... seems difficult

[MuirEng]

Hi,

Revit seems to make it very hard to add one or more loose items to an existing circuit. As far as I can tell the only way to do this is to zoom in the items one at a time (because if you select two or more the connector disappears), right click the connector, click "add to circuit" and then zoom over to a device on the circuit of interest and click that.

Sometimes it is faster to delete the circuit and make a new one.

In the project in front of me I have a part where the connector only shows up when I select it. So I am stuck. The "add to circuit" tool doesn't pick that up. I've spent about 30 minutes so far trying to get one stupid light on a circuit full of other lights. Argh!

This is nuts. Is there a better way to do this that I am missing? Third party tools if not native Revit features?

I tried to run a wire between the parts but that didn't seem to make the connection.

[AJA14]

Try selecting the cricuit, edit, add to circuit, add the new light, redo or modify the wiring.

Regards,

[MuirEng]

Hi, thank you for the reply, but sorry, but I don't totally follow.

I select the circuit by clicking any device that is on the circuit and clicking "power", correct?

but then where is this "add to circuit" tool?

[pteague · Accepted solution]

When you select a device that is already on a circuit, the far-right end of your ribbon should look like this:

Then when you click on Electrical Circuits, you will see this:

From there, if you click Edit Circuit, you can add any number of devices to that circuit simply by clicking on the device.  (Note: you do not want to click on devices that are on other circuits unless you want every device on that second circuit to be added to your current circuit.)

When you are done, click Finish Editing Circuit, and you should be good to go.

If neither of the above menus show up when you click on a circuited device, something else is wrong with your setup.

[MuirEng]

Thanks! I see it now. This also solves another question of mine ("How do you merge circuits"). Great!