Why is conduit modeling in Revit so terrible.

[Anonymous]

What am I doing to make conduits so terrible to work with? As an example, why would the first three conduits "Trim to Corner" exactly as I want but the next one kicks back the error message? I've made sure all the conduits are aligned and at the same elevation, everything should be exactly the same so why can't Revit be consistent? What am I doing wrong?!

[pkolarik]

If modeling conduit is anything like modeling piping in Revit, then some times Revit tries to play dumb in situations like yours. Have you tried deleting the short stick of pipe or the long stick of pipe and recreating it? I've had that fix piping issues in the past. (even when there's no logical reason for recreating it again to work)

[Anonymous]

I know how to fix the problem. My question is what am I doing to create the problem to begin with.

Is it a misalignment issue? Is it whether or not the conduits were created with "Automatically Connect" "Inherit Elevation", "Inherit Size", "Add Vertical", or "Add Slope" toggled? Is it some direction of conduit issue?

[Anonymous]

I have issues where sometimes if you click to past the intersection point it will try to do a different route. Pick as far away as possible for the intersecting point for the two lines.

[s.borello]

It isn't once you learn how to model properly... It takes time... keep at it!

[sujanc]

I have faced this type of issue many times and as per my opinion try to align the conduits in plan view whenever you will get this type of error message. Hope this will work.

[pkolarik]

Some things that Revit tries to do defies common logic. If the solution is simple enough I gave up on trying to figure out the "why" because it simply takes too long versus the workaround.

[fabiosato]

Hello,

I suggest you to try trim to corner and exchange the conduit selection order.

[Lev97]

Think about It......🤔. What are you comparing "Revit" to that's makes it so terrible? 

Think about it...."Why is conduit modeling in Revit so terrible". Compared to what?

You don't have to answer. I wish you would. I would like to know. I didn't see any answers.

Please. Compared to what? 

[johna · Accepted solution]

if you are using conduit without fittings try to change your angle settings to use any angle. Then try Trim again. If it works then yeah its misalignment or make sure you did not accidentally change the conduit family type of one of those sticks.....

[Anonymous]

I accepted the answer as a solution but only to close the ticket for admins. I'm going to try and actually turn the restriction on and hopefully prevent it from creating an elbow/conduit run that's off by a thousandth of an inch in pitch so it won't align its end or kick a darn junction box into the line at the other end that I don't see until later...

[Anonymous]

You're right, I won't. 

[johna]

Also another work around that is weird but works sometimes is cut and paste. cut the conduit run(tab the whole run) plus the stick that you want to connect then paste it in place then try trim corner again, this only works if you have everything correctly aligned but revit wont let you connect for some reasons.