Hi guys and girls,
I am currently a fourth year mechanical engineering student, and I am doing a dissertation on Fabric ducting. One of my objectives is to carry out revit calculations and manual calculations on fabric ducting. Ive only started using Revit in the last few months. I'm just wondering who do i get a fabric duct into revit as a family. Do I have to draw it and apply a material to the component. If so, what procedure do I take.
All help greatly appreciated,
Regards,
Enda Roche
If you only knew the limitations of the hard coded (profile) duct that installs by default within revit. Fabric duct... uhuh. If I had to do this I would use the round duct family. I would create shared parameters that did the calculations based off of the fabric. Currently revit is lacking the proper funtions to even do this OOTB. We had to add the Huebscher formula de = 1.30 x ((a x b)0.625 / (a + b)0.25) to get more of an actual "realistic" result for duct sizing.
Add the necesary shared paramaters assigned to duct. Add those shared parameters to a duct schedule. Add the formulas to the schedules. In the fileds you can add a calculated value. It can be done, but YOU need to add the information.
