From the course: Revit 2019: Essential Training for MEP (Imperial)

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Looking at mechanical settings

Looking at mechanical settings

- [Instructor] There are many settings in Revit. We can never go through them all but let's go through the important ones and locate where all the settings are at. Some settings such as symbology and scale are important to know. Especially if you're working at a picky firm. We'll look at mechanical, electrical, and project settings to get you comfortable with the fact that you can change the way Revit looks. To begin, let's go to our sprinkler floor plan, one sprinkler. Let's zoom in on this area here and see how it looks. We have a lot of big symbols here which kind of overlap one another. Let's take a look at some of the settings. On the mechanical panel, click the mechanical settings button right here. Now let's take a look, hidden line. Draw MEP hidden lines, that means if an item's crossing over the top of another or its obscuring an area we're going to use the inside, outside and single line gaps. The line style will be MEP hidden. If we go to duct settings, there's a few…

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