Generic plumbing adapter or reducer

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I couldn't find any generic piping reducer or adapter, just to put on each side the size I want, for example 3/8" BSW female to 3/4 UNF Male/Female or whatever combination I want. I tried some models from Autodesk Seek but they are mainly limited to a set of sizes or even a simple size.

Examples from Seek Autodesk that I would like to be more configurable (even if the real object doesn't exist:

http://seek.autodesk.com/product/latest/agg/muellerindustries/Mueller-Industries/MuellerA11406

Real life examples:

[L.Maas · Accepted solution]

Basically the same advice here as in your other thread "Pipe branching collars". Use a simple model from one of the libraries. Look for words like reducer or transition. If needed you could modify them to your needs (or create a new one).

As you probably already noticed you spend quite some looking, downloading and testing families that solves your requirements. This should be the moment to start investing time in learning to create your own families. When you are getting better creating your own families you will find that you hardly neede tim to look for families. Or you find a family that comes close to what you need and modify it, or you create your own. Further the families you create yourself can follow your workflow and therefore are easier to implement and work better together (same parameters, same object styles, same materials etc). In the long run this will make Revit much easier to work with.

At this moment almost all my families that I use I have created myself. Only on rare occasions I use standard or suppliers families. And even then I modify them to better fit in my workflow. On the knowledge website there is already lots of information on creating families. You could also read some books or follow some video courses. Start with simple families, study/edit exisiting families before moving on to the more complicated ones

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I understand that implementing your own families is mandatory when the 3D modeling and / or simulation has to be a perfect match of the real construction. However, there's a reason why I still don't implement my own families: because takes a lof time for a very small job, and most important, because I have the expectation that someday those families will be released by the manufacturer and be official. So, putting hundreds of hours on tasks that won't make sense on the long run is something that I tend to avoid. In any case, making modifications to already existing families or making new ones from scratch is something to consider when aiming for a simulation rather than a representation.

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I understand that implementing your own families is mandatory when the 3D modeling and / or simulation has to be a perfect match of the real construction.

Revit families don't have to be perfect to their real life counterparts they're modeled after.

However, there's a reason why I still don't implement my own families: because takes a lof time for a very small job, and most important, because I have the expectation that someday those families will be released by the manufacturer and be official.

Not all manufacturers have Revit families.  Plenty have terrible Revit families.  It's up to you to decide whether or not to use something, or omit it completely, perhaps cover it with a note or a 2D symbol.  Having an expectation of a manufacturer having a Revit family of their product is silly.   

So, putting hundreds of hours on tasks that won't make sense on the long run is something that I tend to avoid. In any case, making modifications to already existing families or making new ones from scratch is something to consider when aiming for a simulation rather than a representation.

Noone is forcing you to do anything.  If you need to have a Revit family, either create it yourself or find it on the internet or pay someone else to create it for you.  It doesn't take hundreds of hours to create a Revit family.  The most time I have spent to create any Revit family is about 6 hours, but it's pretty complex and I did it for myself.       

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Thank you both for your suggestions. Just for the record, I used this generic elbow which allows different radios on each end (and you can put whatever values you want):

Elbow Reducing - Threaded - MI - Class 150.rfa

The website that helped me was this:

http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2012/07/elbow-fitting-selection-and-dimensioning.html