Floor drain with multiple inlets

[dyp4f]

Hi everyone.

Does anybody know where I could find some Revit Families 
for multiple-inlet floor drains ?

This drain is commonly installed on the bathroom floor and
collects not only the floor water (from above), but also waste
water from the washsink, shower etc. (from the side)

It's a pretty common part used on bathroom plumbing, but
for some strange reason there are no Revit Families for that.

Thanks in advance.

[sujanc]

You can find this multi floor drain in the below link search by floor drain

www.bimstore.co

Or you can create your own family.

[Anonymous]

https://www.geberit.ch/planification-installation/cad-bim/cad-bim/

The best site and company for sanitay and plumbing, and their Revit contect is awesome fully parametric for multiple sanitary disciplines . drains,WC,alims, etc

Just write down your email and they send the whole library.

https://www.nussbaum.ch/fr/cao-bim.html you have this site for all kind of accessories more like valvs,fittings, etc

[dyp4f]

Thank you for replying. Unfortunatelly bimstore.co doesn't have a family for the specific item.

[dyp4f]

Thank you a.dono for your answer. Geberit's plug-in has indeed many items, but the specific one
is "not yet ready to use" as they say.

The other site: "nussbaum.ch" has many accessories like valve, fittings, etc , but not floor drains.

Why is so difficult to find a decent Revit Family for something as common as that ??

Normally, Autodesk itself should provide good Revit Families for common materials.

[Anonymous]

If autodek prepares all kind of families for all needs they would pay, maybe millions for modelers to do that, that why every manufacturing company which cares about its future and business should hire modelers to do that for them and model every peiceof their product and thats the case for Geberit , nussbaum, and i'v noticed siemens and ABB too.

[dyp4f]

I was expecting this argument. Well, I think that some basic but decent Revit Families (maybe 2 or 3) should Autodesk provide along with the basic installation of Revit , just to permit some initial, basic MEP Plumbing Modelling inside a bathroom. That's because that little element affects the whole waste water piping in a bathroom. It's as simple as that.

I am not talking about a large number of that kind of Families from Autodesk , trying to cover the whole market of floor drains. Something like that, whould be not feasible nor possible and nobody asks for it, for sure.

[RobDraw]

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@dyp4f wrote:

Normally, Autodesk itself should provide good Revit Families for common materials.

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Not an accurate statement at all. Revit's library is not meant to be complete by any stretch of the imagination and the family in question here is not as common as you might think. Maybe it is in your area, but I have never seen one in my nearly 20 years of experience doing MEP.

[dyp4f]

In my country, the standard way of designing and constructing a Bathroom drainage

piping installation is to connect the drainage outlets from the sink, the shower, the bath,

etc. (except toilet) to the multiple-inlet floor drain which has an internal embedded siphon,

functioning as an odor trap. 

See for example the following link (How to Design a Bathroom Drainage System):

 https://www.quartzbyaco.com.au/how-to-design-a-bathroom-drainage-system/

I understand that maybe in USA, or in some other countries, a setup like this is not something common or usual , but we all know that Revit is a BIM Software for International use.

As a proof of that, Autodesk already provides an extensive Content Material folder

following the local standards, for many different countries around the globe.

[RobDraw]

What is your point?

My point is that Revit does not provide everything and some of the stuff it does provide isn't very good. The included library is only meant as an example of what can be done. It does not cover all the bases regardless of how common a certain item is in any area. Yeah, a lot of the more common ones are included but it is no where near a complete list. The imperial library has two floor drains and one roof drain. Hardly a representation of all the different types of drains used for the vast variety of applications out there. If it is not included, it is up to the users to either obtain it from the manufacturer (or some other third party source) or make it themselves. 

[fabiosato · Accepted solution]

Hello,

There is a brazilian supplier that have such family.

https://www.tigre.com.br/tigre-bim

[dyp4f]

Thank you Fabio Sato. That's a solution indeed.
That supplier has many good Revit families representing their products,
and the specific family:

"Tigre_Redux_Corpo Caixa Sifonada - 3 entradas.rfa"

is what I needed.

[Anonymous]

I was looking for it too, coz my country also uses floor drain with mullite inlets to connect together such as ( sink, bath, and lav ). 

you can find what are you looking for here https://www.mifab.com/cms-global/sitesearch/Search.do?editConfirmed=true&module=STORE&query=Floor+Dr...

[abdulrahmanshammery]

I have one

[abdulrahmanshammery]

this the one but need modification