Pipe Fittings

[Anonymous]

My new position at work is to make pipe fittings and I am having a hard time finding any educational information on this. I am well versed with Revit and I have even made a few parametric fittings, so I am looking for something in a more advanced book or even videos. I have been through all the CAD learning, "Mastering Autodesk" and even AU and I am still finding nothing. Please recommend some kind of information for me.

[L.Maas · Accepted solution]

If you done the mastering series and the AU you should be well on your way to create MEP families. I think this would be the stage to just start creating families. You further can study other families and see how they are constructed. If you are running into specific issues the forums can be a good source for helping you.

While already quite old (AU 2008) I , on occasion, still check back to the pdf of the "Getting into the flow". A good source of information relating to connectors.

[robert.klempau · Accepted solution]

Hello @Anonymous,

I Totally agree with @L.Maas, you are well on your way with all this information.

Pipe and duct fittings are the hardest families to create.

As @L.Maas mentioned you can learn a lot from other Revit families that you can download from the internet but they are not all good!

Learn from the ones that work fine.

I would start to open the out of the box Revit families in the Revit Library and see how they are set up.

a few important rules are:

• Select the right Category (Fitting)
• Select the right Part type. That's important for families that are going to be used in Pipe or Duct types (Routing Preferences)
• Be sure that you connect the angle and diameter parameters to the connectors. (important for Elbows and Tees)
• Be sure to link the connectors
• Be sure that the Origin of the fitting is in the right place. (intersection of the connectors)
• Be sure that your lookup tables are set up correctly and connected correctly to your family.
• Use reference lines to add connectors to (flex the ref lines first.)
• Take little steps to create a family and test them after every step you take.
• Don't make them to complex!
• Avoid Voids if possible.
• Don't make them too detailed.

@L.Maas Wrote:

"While already quite old (AU 2008) I , on occasion, still check back to the pdf of the "Getting into the flow". A good source of information relating to connectors."

I train people in creating Reit families and always refer to this document from Martin Schmid.

Don't hesitate to ask us if you run into some issues or what to know more about creating MEP families.

We are here to help you.

[apadillami6 · Accepted solution]

Hi, I really know that adaptative MEP families are the most difficult.

Well Im gonig to share some ideas, first you need to find information about :

- Power of Lookup Tables in Revit for  families 

http://au.autodesk.com/au-online/classes-on-demand/class-catalog/classes/year-2013/revit-for-mep-eng...

- Second

Find information about  " Conditional  Statement parameters " "IF"

https://www.revitforum.org/tutorials-tips-tricks/1046-revit-formulas-everyday-usage.html

That kind of parameters are really helpful and also powerful

So, at least, If you excel managing  "Size lookup tables and conditional statemnet parameters", you wont have problems designing this families.