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Designing plumbing systems, I encountered challenges for the practice exercise
- Systems Complexity: As you already know plumbing systems can be complex, involving various components such as pipes, fittings, fixtures, not least utilizing valves and pumps. While modeling the pipes and fixture - the main riser (vertical) pipe and branch (horizontal) pipes in the mechanical space behind the south restroom on Level 0 for just the Sanitary system. I did not have the same issues with the domestic hot and cold water systems.
- Coordination with Other Disciplines: Coordinating plumbing layouts with other architecture models resulting in the images above. It also helped when sanitary pipes were out of place to realign them.
- Slope and Drainage Requirements: The modeling of the sanitary pipe systems, was abit challenging at first but going from level 0 (grade) to level 1 (planned) and viewing the 3D plumbing views helped mitigate this challenge.
- Pipe Sizing and Flow Analysis: Proper sizing of pipes and conduits was considered but implementation with he caps of the Sanitary pipes had to be adjusted to cap pipe.
Upon speaking to Dan, he recommended that the error I received with the sanitary pipes from his experience typically occurred when there is a lack of necessary space to place the specified connecting fitting. He further advised that depending on how large your sanitary pipe is, there might not be either room in the riser for the diameter, or there is not room in the wall for any bend connection for the pipes. I gave it a go with his recommendation to make some more room in-wall as well sizing down the sanitary and all seem to work fine.