WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:04.880 Welcome back to the VDCI video course content for Reva MEP for plumbing. 00:04.880 --> 00:08.700 In the previous video, we went ahead and got all of our system for our domestic hot and 00:08.700 --> 00:10.300 cool water in. 00:10.300 --> 00:14.900 And now I want to kind of change gears a little bit and let's talk about fixtures. 00:14.900 --> 00:20.340 So the fixtures that you see here are currently part of the linked architectural model. 00:20.340 --> 00:25.420 Now those are great and typically the architect will determine those locations, but we obviously 00:25.420 --> 00:29.500 need to be able to connect into these for our pipe network. 00:29.500 --> 00:35.440 So what we want to go ahead and do is a couple of different ways of creating these fixtures. 00:35.440 --> 00:39.220 We could just place them just like you would any other family. 00:39.220 --> 00:42.840 We could go ahead and just place individual fixtures in those exact locations if we 00:42.840 --> 00:43.840 want to. 00:43.840 --> 00:47.080 There is also the ability to do copy monitor. 00:47.080 --> 00:50.480 So copy monitor allows us just like what we did with our levels. 00:50.480 --> 00:54.880 And if we had grids in this model, we would probably do with our grids too, is that the 00:54.880 --> 00:59.080 copy monitor allows us to kind of track and see possible changes. 00:59.080 --> 01:03.800 So if the architect say the architect decides to move this fixture left or right up and 01:03.800 --> 01:08.960 down, whatever, the location of it changes, we would be alerted to that and we would be 01:08.960 --> 01:12.880 able to match up to that if we so desired. 01:12.880 --> 01:18.040 So I want to kind of talk about the fixtures a little bit before we actually get into making 01:18.040 --> 01:22.960 copies of them because how Reva has broken this up or how Autodesk has broken this up is 01:23.040 --> 01:26.280 there's two different types of fixtures when you load in a fixture. 01:26.280 --> 01:30.000 There is an architectural version, which does not have any connectors on it. 01:30.000 --> 01:35.400 If you go back to our water heater that we created, we created these connectors so that 01:35.400 --> 01:39.400 we can have our hot water come in, our hot water, our cold water come in, our hot water 01:39.400 --> 01:42.840 come out, so on and so forth. 01:42.840 --> 01:47.240 So we want to go ahead and the one that the architect has decided to use here is going 01:47.240 --> 01:50.760 to be one that does not have connectors, it's an architectural element. 01:50.760 --> 01:54.760 So we're going to want to use what they call the MEP ones, which have the connectors built 01:54.760 --> 01:56.960 in and let me show you what I'm talking about. 01:56.960 --> 02:03.400 If I go over to the insert tab under the insert tab, there is this load Autodesk family. 02:03.400 --> 02:07.720 Now this load Autodesk family, if you click on it, it's going to bring up a library 02:07.720 --> 02:10.800 of content that Autodesk has created. 02:10.800 --> 02:15.280 Now this content used to be installed on your machine when you installed Revit, but 02:15.280 --> 02:20.880 it is no longer installed on your machine, it is now under this load Autodesk family. 02:20.880 --> 02:22.680 That happened a couple of years ago. 02:22.680 --> 02:26.240 So now what you can do is you can see all the different categories here. 02:26.240 --> 02:28.400 You can search up here at the top. 02:28.400 --> 02:32.840 You can local setting so you can change, you know, United States Imperial, United States 02:32.840 --> 02:33.840 metric. 02:33.840 --> 02:37.040 There's a bunch of different locales that they have here, so it gives you a little bit 02:37.040 --> 02:42.560 of a larger library that you might possibly be able to use. 02:42.560 --> 02:44.400 You can change what it looks like. 02:44.400 --> 02:49.680 So do you want it to be kind of large tabs like this, or do you want it to be a list 02:49.680 --> 02:52.920 of you as such, and then just an about page. 02:52.920 --> 02:55.360 So there is a, how do I find in load content? 02:55.360 --> 02:58.480 If you want to check that out, that would take you to a web page that will kind of tell 02:58.480 --> 03:01.840 you how to use this load Autodesk family, but it's pretty straightforward. 03:01.840 --> 03:05.480 You just check the box, hit load, and it loads those items in. 03:05.480 --> 03:10.480 So if I look here under plumbing, and I go down, you can see I have architectural and 03:10.480 --> 03:11.480 I have MEP. 03:11.760 --> 03:14.720 Well, architectural, we have some equipment and we have some fixtures. 03:14.720 --> 03:19.000 MEP, we have some equipment and a little bit expanded list of equipment here. 03:19.000 --> 03:22.400 And under fixtures, we have some expanded items here. 03:22.400 --> 03:23.720 So we have a couple of different things. 03:23.720 --> 03:25.680 You see we have like appliances here. 03:25.680 --> 03:31.160 We have connectors, let's see what else is the difference, emergency fixtures, lavatories, 03:31.160 --> 03:32.160 so on and so forth. 03:32.160 --> 03:34.120 So there are some differences here. 03:34.120 --> 03:38.800 Now if I click into syncs here, and you look closely at these images, notice that these 03:38.800 --> 03:42.440 3D images, they just have the geometry of the sync. 03:42.440 --> 03:47.320 So we have a sync kitchen double, sync kitchen island, sync kitchen single, so on and so 03:47.320 --> 03:48.320 forth. 03:48.320 --> 03:55.040 If I go back to my plumbing category, I go down to MEP, and I go down to syncs. 03:55.040 --> 03:58.440 Notice how you have these little lines that are like the little colors. 03:58.440 --> 04:02.360 Those are going to go ahead and be our actual connectors. 04:02.360 --> 04:06.480 So the architectural fixtures do not have the connectors to tie in the hot water, the cold 04:07.480 --> 04:09.480 water, the waste systems, those kind of things. 04:09.480 --> 04:16.440 They just have, the architectural ones are just the 3D information or 2D in some instances. 04:16.440 --> 04:20.840 But the MEP fixtures are the ones that actually have the connectors, and I really strongly recommend 04:20.840 --> 04:24.040 using the MEP ones that have the connectors. 04:24.040 --> 04:26.000 That's obviously what we want to use. 04:26.000 --> 04:30.640 So that's kind of the main difference between the architectural and the MEP. 04:30.640 --> 04:34.840 There is again in the MEP, you have some additional items, you have some appliances here. 04:34.840 --> 04:39.240 They have like a dishwasher, kitchen, stacked washer, and dryer washing machine. 04:39.240 --> 04:41.720 What else do they have? 04:41.720 --> 04:45.280 Under lavatories, they have these specific kind of lavatories, which we'll be using some 04:45.280 --> 04:46.280 of these. 04:46.280 --> 04:50.120 So we're going to go ahead and we'll come back to this load some items in because we need 04:50.120 --> 04:53.400 to talk about a couple of things, the copy monitor. 04:53.400 --> 04:56.640 Now with that being said, the differences between the architectural and the MEP, we have 04:56.640 --> 05:00.600 to think about how we want to do the copy monitor before we do it. 05:00.600 --> 05:03.640 If we copy monitor in the wrong thing, it can kind of be a little troublesome. 05:03.640 --> 05:08.040 There's a little bit of pre-work that needs to go into this copy monitor. 05:08.040 --> 05:10.560 So let's take a look at the copy monitor settings. 05:10.560 --> 05:15.800 So if I go over to my Collaborate tab, and I'm going to go to Copy, Monitor, pull down, 05:15.800 --> 05:17.560 and hit Select Link. 05:17.560 --> 05:20.480 You can highlight and click on the link here. 05:20.480 --> 05:24.120 And then you have this contextual tab come up for Copy Monitor. 05:24.120 --> 05:28.160 You have Options, Copy, Monitor, Coordination Settings, or Batch Copy. 05:28.160 --> 05:33.240 If we go into our Coordination settings here, you'll see that it gives us a list of 05:33.240 --> 05:37.760 items, a list of categories that we can copy monitor from, say, the MEP Architectural 05:37.760 --> 05:38.760 Model. 05:38.760 --> 05:42.120 If we needed to, and there are more than one model linked in, say, we had a structural 05:42.120 --> 05:47.480 model linked in, or an electrical model linked in, we could pull down here and choose which 05:47.480 --> 05:50.360 file that we wanted to copy monitor from. 05:50.360 --> 05:52.400 But it's going to apply to this one. 05:52.400 --> 05:55.360 Also we obviously picked a link that we wanted to copy monitor from. 05:55.360 --> 05:58.200 So that's why this pull down is such. 05:58.200 --> 06:00.480 So you see all these different categories here. 06:00.480 --> 06:03.280 And you see under Plumbing Fictures, we kind of have this plus sign. 06:03.280 --> 06:07.760 Well, that's because under Plumbing Fictures, I have set the Copy Behavior to Allow Batch 06:07.760 --> 06:09.440 Copy. 06:09.440 --> 06:14.200 So you have Allow Batch Copy, Copy, Individually, or Ignore the category completely. 06:14.200 --> 06:17.560 Please make sure yours says Allow Batch Copy because we want to copy all these fixtures 06:17.560 --> 06:19.040 at once. 06:19.040 --> 06:21.760 Then the Mapping Behavior, Specified Type Mapping. 06:21.760 --> 06:25.400 So you could choose Copy Original, which is just going to take whatever the architect 06:25.400 --> 06:30.320 has placed in their model, make a copy of that in place in our model, or we can 06:30.320 --> 06:34.880 specify Type Mapping, saying, hey, I know the architect is using this fixture. 06:34.880 --> 06:36.800 We want to use this fixture instead. 06:36.800 --> 06:39.120 Please replace it with this fixture. 06:39.120 --> 06:41.640 We're going to go ahead and use Specified Type Mapping. 06:41.640 --> 06:43.160 Go ahead and check that box. 06:43.160 --> 06:46.120 It's going to give you a little or select that there. 06:46.120 --> 06:49.800 It's going to give you a little pop down beneath Plumbing Fictures for the Type Mapping. 06:49.800 --> 06:51.520 Let's go ahead and click into that. 06:51.520 --> 06:58.240 So you can see we have Lavatory Vanity, Lavatory Oval A, Sink Kitchen Single, Urinal Wall 06:58.240 --> 07:01.520 Hung A, and Water Closet, Wall Mounted. 07:01.520 --> 07:05.920 So we can go ahead and we can set up specific types. 07:05.920 --> 07:10.040 So in the linked model, this is the ones in the Architectural, in the Host Model, which 07:10.040 --> 07:13.000 is our model, we can choose what we want to do. 07:13.000 --> 07:17.320 Well, in this instance, we don't necessarily want to copy Original Type. 07:17.320 --> 07:21.000 We want to specify which ones, but I think we're going to need to go ahead and load some 07:21.000 --> 07:25.600 items in here because we don't have all of them in here. 07:25.640 --> 07:30.040 So you can see we have Sink Kitchen Double, Sink Mop, but we don't have the ones that 07:30.040 --> 07:31.040 we actually want. 07:31.040 --> 07:32.600 So we're going to need to load these in. 07:32.600 --> 07:34.040 So we're going to need to remember these a little bit. 07:34.040 --> 07:35.280 We might have to come back. 07:35.280 --> 07:40.880 This is one of the things with this copy monitor that you have to be aware of is that 07:40.880 --> 07:44.880 you have to think about what fixtures are you copying over first, have them preloaded 07:44.880 --> 07:48.360 into your project, and then specify the Type Mapping. 07:48.360 --> 07:51.680 There really isn't a template way to set this up. 07:51.680 --> 07:56.120 It could set it up as a template, but not in the traditional sense of a template. 07:56.120 --> 08:03.040 So what we have here, so we have a lavatory vanity, lavatory oval A, a kitchen sink 08:03.040 --> 08:05.880 single, wall hung, and water closet. 08:05.880 --> 08:08.480 So I'm going to hit Save and Close. 08:08.480 --> 08:11.840 I'm going to hit Finish, I'm just going to hit cancel on this, excuse me, and let's go 08:11.840 --> 08:15.880 ahead and go back to our insert, load auto desk family. 08:15.880 --> 08:19.200 So I'm going to go down to my plumbing. 08:19.200 --> 08:21.960 I'm going to go to my lavatories. 08:21.960 --> 08:23.480 Let's start with our lavatories. 08:23.480 --> 08:27.600 We want to go ahead and load lavatory oval and lavatory vanity. 08:27.600 --> 08:29.520 We're going to load both of those. 08:29.520 --> 08:32.560 I'm going to hit Load. 08:32.560 --> 08:33.560 And there we go. 08:33.560 --> 08:36.800 The only unfortunate thing about this load auto family is once you load it closes you 08:36.800 --> 08:37.800 out. 08:37.800 --> 08:39.440 So to get the other ones, we have to go back in. 08:39.440 --> 08:43.000 I'm going to go back to my MEP. 08:43.000 --> 08:46.040 I'm going to go to Urinals. 08:46.040 --> 08:50.920 I'm going to grab Urinal Wall Home, and I'm going to go ahead and load. 08:50.920 --> 08:54.880 Again, I'm going to go back to load auto desk family. 08:54.880 --> 08:57.560 I'm going to click Back on Fictures. 08:57.560 --> 08:59.560 Luckily, it remembers where we were. 08:59.560 --> 09:02.240 I'm going to go to Water Closets. 09:02.240 --> 09:07.280 And we are going to go ahead and use, let's see, I sometimes like to see the entire name 09:07.280 --> 09:08.280 here. 09:08.280 --> 09:11.320 We're going to use the Water Closet flush valve wall mounted. 09:11.320 --> 09:13.920 Load. 09:13.920 --> 09:17.480 And then the last one we need to go ahead and load in the sink. 09:17.480 --> 09:18.480 Load auto's family. 09:18.480 --> 09:20.320 So I'm going to go back to Fictures. 09:20.320 --> 09:22.120 I'm going to go to Syncs. 09:22.120 --> 09:25.040 Now you can see that we don't necessarily have the exact sync that we want. 09:25.040 --> 09:28.440 We're going to go ahead and use the Sync Island single, and we're just going to create 09:28.440 --> 09:34.400 a new type that matches the 30 by 21 size that we were given by the previous one. 09:34.400 --> 09:37.840 I'm going to go ahead and hit Load. 09:37.840 --> 09:38.840 And there we go.