Create system zones

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In this video, we will cover creating system zones and editing system zones.

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System zones are used to designate areas of the building that will be served by specific analytical systems and zone equipment.

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To create a system zone, switch to the analyzed ribbon and then in the energy optimization panel click system zone.

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When you do revit goes into sketch mode and you can use any of the tools in the draw gallery to sketch shapes.

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Any space that is touching the shape or inside the shape will be included in the system zone.

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Let's take a look at a couple examples,

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with lines selected zoom in and sketch a line through the exam rooms and into the consulting room and then press escape once.

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At this point, we have a single sketch line that extends through five spaces, click finish edit mode.

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We now have a system zone and you can see the properties in the properties palette.

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System zones have a level and A level offset.

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Once again, anything that is touching the sketch line or that is inside the shape defined by the sketch line will be included in the system zone.

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And so you can control the level offset in order to move that boundary up or down.

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So in case we have spaces that are lower or higher, you may want to adjust this.

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You can also control the name, we'll leave it set to the default name for now,

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and then you can add comments and then once you have zone equipment, you can select that in this Drop down.

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Next I will click system zone again and in the draw gallery, select rectangle.

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Now I'll zoom in to the middle and I'll sketch a rectangle that is inside the exam rooms as well as the consulting rooms.

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And then I'll click finish edit mode again.

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At this point I have a shape that in and now I have these 10 rooms that will be included in this zone.

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Take note that if we need to edit a system zone we can select it and click edit system zone.

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If I were to move this boundary to where it encloses these rooms, then it would also pass through the corridor.

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In which case the corridor would then be included in the system zone.

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So in case you're thinking that you need to enclose all the spaces, just be aware that anything that passes through it will also be included.

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And we'll take a look at that.

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When you're finished editing, you can click finish edit mode and then once again it remains selected.

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I will name, leave this one set to system zone one and then I'll select this one and we'll change the name to system zone two.

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And now we will take a look at how to see the analytical spaces that make up the zone.

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Because when you select it, you'll notice that you can't see any spaces in the zone.

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And so to do that, we will go back to the energy optimization panel and click create energy model.

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And then in the dialog I'll select to create the energy analytical model and we will let it rabbit process.

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When it's finished, there's a new view which is the analytical spaces view.

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And then there's also a system zones view but I'll switch back to the mechanical ground floor view and then on the view ribbon in the windows panel,

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I'll expand the user interface button and select system browser.

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And then I will expand the drop down and select analytical systems.

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And then when I expand on assigned you can see systems on one and systems own too along with all of the other analytical spaces.

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And then when I expand the drop down, you can see the analytical spaces that are included in the system zone.

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So for system zone too, you can see the five analytical spaces.

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Whereas for system zone one, you'll notice that there are several spaces.

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And so once again it's not just the spaces that are inside that shape, but also anything that it's passing through,

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which in this case is the corridor and the corridor has been split up into multiple analytical spaces.

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And that is based on the energy settings.

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So just to summarize the system zones designate areas of the building that will be served by specific analytical systems and zone equipment.

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So you want to make sure that you have your system zone specified when you perform a systems analysis.