My office is currently switching to REVIT from AUTOCAD MEP. Could you help me out with the process?
I currently know how to do about 90 percent of the work that we will be doing in Revit, it being : Creating circuits / panel schedules / Tagging/ labeling everything / fire protection / creating families and editing them. I had been searching all forums but most of the answers for the following questions are from 2007 - 2014 so I don't know if the fixes and the solutions provided there are current to the version that we are using which is 2017.
Could you help me with the following questions?
1 . How to do Electrical Riser Diagrams in REVIT. My office just needs a graphical representation of it, NO conduits / Trays modeling. ( the contractor will figure it out how to connect it all , otherwise we would get a ton of RFI's and change of orders. ) DRFTING VIEW? and just draw it out? If so is it possible to lets say draw a Meter and save it for future use? How do I save it to a file?
2. Are the voltage drops calculated automatically and kept under 3 %? are the numbers accurate, on some forums I have read that they aren't accurate at all, and that its better to use this " Design Master Revit Addon " ? Is the wire size adjusted when it goes over 3 %?
Is there a " feeder schedule" tab? that shows that a panel PL401 is connected with this particular wire size and quantity? lets say : " 4#3/0, #6 GND "
3. If I have a hotel with a bunch of typical rooms. Is it possible to copy the whole entire circuit with labels and everything to a different room and connect it to a different panel? Do I have to keep recircuiting the whole apartment all over again? . How do I keep the circuit numbers consistent from room to room ?
4. After the whole project is done and I have a bunch of edited families already loaded in to the project do I copy over the " template" by just going to Manage> Transfer Project Standards ? Is it a way to save all the settings / families / details / into a file for future use? All my edited element families are on my local computer, should I put it on a company server?
5. Is there a way to mass add spare on all the free spaces in the panel? instead of doing every panel one by one. ?
6 . Lighting schedules? Power schedules? ? Like so : "light type" " location" Voltage" quantity"
Thank you. I hope I hear back from you guys soon. These questions bother me and I don't have anybody to turn to.
I currently know how to do about 90 percent of the work that we will be doing in Revit, it being : Creating circuits / panel schedules / Tagging/ labeling everything / fire protection / creating families and editing them. I had been searching all forums but most of the answers for the following questions are from 2007 - 2014 so I don't know if the fixes and the solutions provided there are current to the version that we are using which is 2017.
Could you help me with the following questions?
1 . How to do Electrical Riser Diagrams in REVIT. My office just needs a graphical representation of it, NO conduits / Trays modeling. ( the contractor will figure it out how to connect it all , otherwise we would get a ton of RFI's and change of orders. ) DRFTING VIEW? and just draw it out? If so is it possible to lets say draw a Meter and save it for future use? How do I save it to a file?
2. Are the voltage drops calculated automatically and kept under 3 %? are the numbers accurate, on some forums I have read that they aren't accurate at all, and that its better to use this " Design Master Revit Addon " ? Is the wire size adjusted when it goes over 3 %?
Is there a " feeder schedule" tab? that shows that a panel PL401 is connected with this particular wire size and quantity? lets say : " 4#3/0, #6 GND "
3. If I have a hotel with a bunch of typical rooms. Is it possible to copy the whole entire circuit with labels and everything to a different room and connect it to a different panel? Do I have to keep recircuiting the whole apartment all over again? . How do I keep the circuit numbers consistent from room to room ?
4. After the whole project is done and I have a bunch of edited families already loaded in to the project do I copy over the " template" by just going to Manage> Transfer Project Standards ? Is it a way to save all the settings / families / details / into a file for future use? All my edited element families are on my local computer, should I put it on a company server?
5. Is there a way to mass add spare on all the free spaces in the panel? instead of doing every panel one by one. ?
6 . Lighting schedules? Power schedules? ? Like so : "light type" " location" Voltage" quantity"
Thank you. I hope I hear back from you guys soon. These questions bother me and I don't have anybody to turn to.
. Can someone add on to this? please help.
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