MEP SYSTEMS AT TYPICAL FLOORS

[Anonymous]

Hi I am working on Plumbing of a 30 story building. 15 of those sotories are exactly the same and I have modeled only one of them in order to copy the rest of them in the exact same place in the above floors. This has several issues (see below)... if anybody comes up with a better solution i will be happy to discuss it. 

- All plumbing fixtures are monitored from an ARCH rvt file. If systems are copied then plumbing fixtures are copied to meaning i am only monitoring one floor and not the rest of them even if they are the same. Otherwise fixtures will be doubled in the very exact same place.

- MEP and groups are not good friends, then gourping is not recommended.. should I copy every element in the system and the reconnect it to the mail system? This seems quite manual and tedious. 

- When copying elements that are part of the system (eg heater or toilet) they need to be rehosted in every single level manually..

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ave been tsrugginlin arround with MEP and coordination lately.. would appreciate if you could recommend online courses or good websites. I will promess to update my blog with everything i ve learned lately soon 🙂

[RobDraw]

I would copy the typical portion of the finished floor to your clipboard and then paste aligned to current level. That should cover the hosting to the appropriate level.

Since the risers are not going to be typical for all floors, I would manually connect the typical branches to the mains.

[Anonymous]

Thanks RobDraw, sounds like a plan.

I will try this and give you guys feedback on the outcome. 

Thanks !!

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Here´s what I finally did and it has worked out fine so far so good 

I copied all the included elements of one system of a typical floor and pasted it into a new Revit file. (meaning I created a file with only the plumbing system of a typical floor) 

Then I  linked that file into my project file and copied it as many times as needed. After that I binded the link and connected the system into the rest of the Plumbing system of my project File. 

Binding the links takes a lot of memory but it´s the only way to be able to connect the system in the linked file into the downspots of the project file.  I have been also thinking fo creating a family conatining the family but editing a family in a different window from the project one does not seem a good idea.

[Anonymous]

would it not just be easier copying and pasting to the floors above? this seems like a whole other step. maybe you are seeing something i am not....could you explain why this method is efficient?