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

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Creating a system

Creating a system

- [Instructor] Now we've got some big pieces of equipment in, I want to plumb them up. The thing is here, there's a specific way that I like to do it that has kept me out of trouble. I used to do it another way that got me into trouble, so I'd like to point out a couple things to ya. In my project browser I'm going to scroll down to Enlarged Mechanical Room. I'm going to pick on this boiler first, so I'm going to select my boiler. We've got hydronic piping coming in, and I want to pretend we're getting this from our roof. I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to click on this create pipe button. Nothing out of the ordinary here. I'm going to pick a point right about here, and I'm going to come over to about here. Maybe I want to run it up this wall. Okay, now what I want to do is my offset. I'm going to send it up pretty high, but not all the way. I don't know, I'm going to go 9144, equivalent of 30 feet. I'm going to keep going in this direction, but we won't be able to see the pipe…

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