Create a posting that includes:
- The screenshot of an interior view of your merged model from the Model Coordination tools showing the plumbing elements.
- You’ll probably need to select and hide the Partition element from the architectural model to see your plumbing fixtures.
- A few lines describing any challenges you encountered and how you overcame them.
For this exercise, I am suppose to add pipes for the equipments in the restroom. What I did is pretty straightforward: I went to the section view and used “connect into” tool to connect the fixtures with the pipes. This is what it looks like in one single side:
Then I use the “mirror” tool to copy the main riser pipe and branch pipes to the mechanical space behind the north restroom walls. Since a reference line has already been provided, I can do it directly:
Almost all the works are the same. The only alternative is that the wash basin is on the far end, so I need to extend the hot water pipe.
Finally, since the location of the restrooms on each level in the building are stacked (located directly above each other on each floor), I can simply copy them between floor levels to simplify my modeling. The only thing I need to do is manually connect the branch pipes to the main riser pipe.
Then I upload the plumbing model to the ACC, and merge it with the architectural model:
