From the course: Revit 2023: Essential Training for MEP

Adding panels - Revit MEP Tutorial

From the course: Revit 2023: Essential Training for MEP

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Adding panels

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- (Instructor) In Revit, you'll find that it kind of works downstream. One thing leads to another. What I mean by that is we have receptacles in our model already, but we can't circuit them. Why not? Well, because we don't have a panel to circuit them to. The objective of this video is to bring in a panel, give it a name and check out the distribution system. In Revit, under models, let's go Open. Browse to where you're keeping your exercise files. Let's grab Electrical Project Panels. Click Open. In our project browser, scroll down to Electrical, Power. Under Floor Plans, let's double-click on Level-1 Power to make sure we're in the right view. In Level-1, let's zoom in on our electrical room right here. On the Systems tab, on the Electrical panel, let's click Electrical Equipment. In our Properties type selector dropdown, let's scroll down till we find Lighting and Appliance Panelboard 208 volt. We'll go down to a 225 amp service. I'm going to go ahead and place it right inside of this wall right here. Hit escape a few times. Now, let's select this panel. We can change the default elevation if we want, but let's scroll down till we get to some of the identity data. The mounting is recessed, the enclosure is Type 1, the panel name, we want to change. All caps, let's type in PP-1, power panel one. Click apply, and the location knows that it's in the electrical room. Also with it selected, notice that we have a distribution system. This is important, because when we want to circuit something to it, it has to have a matching distribution system associated with it. Hit escape a few times. Select this panel right here. Click Copy. Pick a base point like right about here. Let's copy down maybe four feet. Hit escape a few times. Select the second panel we have. Let's click the dropdown. I'm going to throw it on a 480 volt MLO. Let's put it on a 250 amp service. For the panel name, let's call it, all caps, LP-1. Click apply. Now, we have distribution systems and panels set up for both 120/208 and 480/277, so I guess the next thing to do is circuit our receptacles to these panels.

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