Change Conduit Connector Location on Face

[scoggin48TTJ]

New to Revit. I have made a conduit connection to the face of a panel. How can I move the connector on the face or do I have to redraw the entire conduit?

[timlove]

I have yet to find a way, and typically find surface connectors cumbersome to work with.  We typically just have the conduit go to the edge of the panels and not actually connected.

We have been searching for a good alternative, but that seems hard to come by. 

[scoggin48TTJ]

They need to work on that. I have used Building Systems/MEP in the past and duct/pipe routings gave you a lot more alternatives to routing. I believe they can improve in this area if they would go back and look at MEP. Thank you for your response.

[iainsavage]

I don't know about panels but for other families I use a short sweep or extrusion to mimic a connection bush and place the connector on the end of it. I think it works for panels too.

[craigjonnson]

@iainsavage Same here, also adding dimensional parameters if the connector needs to be moved. i.e. AHU Connections, etc.

[timlove]

Equipment with a known number of potential connections is easy.  For that I have just a flat disk that is surface mounted and can pull dimensions to the center of it, drop that in any family, place your standard conduit connector on it, then you can move it around on that surface with parameters.  Also makes a nice circle to locate the connector.  When you don't know how many conduits, surface connectors were intended to be used, but they are cumbersome.  Had to design a panel to take (20) 3/4"  or  (6) 3/4", (5) 1" and (2) 2", or... yea you get the idea, and that is just one side.  More annoying even when shared nested family's connectors are questionable about how they will function with each version of Revit.