Create piping systems

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In this lesson, we will cover creating and editing piping system types and creating and editing piping systems.

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On the second floor of this building model, I have placed water source heat pumps.

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We can create piping systems to indicate which heat pumps are on which system,

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and in this case all five of the water source heat pumps will be on the same piping system, but there will be multiple piping systems,

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for example, will need condenser water supply and return and heating hot water supply and return.

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In the project browser when you expand families and then expand piping systems and piping system.

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You can see the piping system types that are created in the project.

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In this case, these are the default piping system types and they are based on the system classifications.

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I'll select Hydronic Supply, right click and select Type Properties.

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In the Type Properties dialog. I can see the system type and then I can see the system classification.

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System classifications are extremely important because the pipe connectors are assigned a system classification.

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And then, as you can see here, the system types are assigned a system classification.

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So components with certain connectors with certain system classifications can be added to systems of the same system classification.

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So it's important to remember the system types and then the system classifications that they're assigned to.

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In this case, this is the hydronic supply system and I will duplicate it.

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And let's call this one heating, hot water supply.

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And I'll click Ok.

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And when you have a system type there, you can control graphic overrides for all the elements belonging to that system.

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You can even add a material.

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You can control the fluid type, fluid temperature.

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And then there are some other identity data parameters as well as two line and single line rise and drop symbology.

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For this system, we will adjust the graphic overrides and we will change the line color to red and click Ok.

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Then I'll click Ok to close these dialogues and then I'll right click hydronic return and select type properties.

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And we'll duplicate this one again to create another type

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and name it Heating hot water return and click Ok.

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And then we'll change the line color Override to an orange.

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And then click Ok to close these.

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Now And as far as creating piping systems, you can create those when you create pipe or you can create them manually before.

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We'll take a quick look at those.

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On the Systems ribbon In the Plumbing and Piping panel. I'll click Pipe

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and before I create pipe, you can see that there is a system type parameter that can be adjusted,

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and I will select our heating hot water supply system.

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And I'll create a single pipe segment and click modify.

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And when I do, I can select the pipe and then switch to the Piping Systems contextual ribbon.

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And I can see that I created a heating hot water supply system and that pipe is red.

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So I could simply connect all the water source heat pumps to this piper with this pipe or with piping I guess I should say.

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And it would create, it would add all those water source heat pumps to the same system.

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Another way is I can select the water source heat pumps first and then add them to a system.

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And so what that does is that it just allows you to keep track of the components in the system and then you can use that as your modeling piping.

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You can absolutely model the piping first, but it's a preference thing.

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I prefer to create the systems first.

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That way it kind of divides up and I know what I'm what I'm working with.

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When I select a water source heat pump, you can see several connector labels and these indicate the connectors that are placed on the equipment.

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So with mechanical equipment, there are multiple connectors.

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There are duct connectors, there's a power connector, there are pipe connectors.

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And so that's why in the Create Systems panel in the contextual ribbon, I can create multiple types of systems.

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In this case I'll click Piping and this opens the Create Piping System dialogue.

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I'll expand the system type dropdown,

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and I can select a system type based on the system classifications of the pipe connectors that are on the equipment.

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In this case, I'll select heating hot water supply and I will name it HWS-1.

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And then I will select Open in System Editor and then click Ok.

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Next The select connector dialog appears,

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and the reason is because there are actually two connectors that are on this equipment that are assigned to the hydronic supply system classification.

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I want to make sure to select the hot water one and then click Ok.

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And then since I selected Open in System Editor Revit goes into edit piping system mode.

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With Add Two Systems selected, I can begin selecting the other water source heat pumps and selecting the appropriate connector,

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and those components will be added to the system.

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I can also use a window and once again the Select Connector dialog will appear for each component I had selected.

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If I need to remove from system, I can select Remove From System and select it.

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And then if I wanted to select the equipment supplying these water source heat pumps, I could do that now.

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Or I can simply leave that blank for now.

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And I will click Finish Editing System,

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and when I do the water source heat pumps turn red and I can select it, switch to the Piping Systems contextual ribbon,

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and see that they are on the HWS-1 or heating hot water supply system.

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I'll deselect that and then we'll create one more system.

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I'll select it and we'll click Piping and this time we will select heating hot water return

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and we'll name this one. HWR-1 and I will not select Open in System Editor.

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I'll just click Ok.

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We'll select the hot water return and click Ok.

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And so in this case, just the single water source heat pump is on the system,

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but with it selected, I can click Edit System,

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and then go into Edit Piping System mode and so either method will work,

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and we will quickly add the other water source heat pumps.

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And then I'll click Finish Editing System

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and afterwards the water source heat pumps. They return to the black color and that is because they are now added to two systems.

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And so that's why they will. The graphic overrides for the individual systems will go away.