Shadowing Practice: Plumbing for a Simple Bathroom in Revit Tutorial [Revit MEP Plumbing] - Learn English Speaking with Video

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What's going on, guys?

Balkan Architect here, and in today's video, we're going to be talking about a topic that you have requested quite a lot lately,

and that is plumbing for a simple bathroom.

So that's what I'm going to be doing in this video.

I'm going to be showing you how to set up the plumbing just for a simple bathroom,

how to connect everything up and just make everything work.

Now, if you want to learn more about plumbing in Revit,

I have actually created quite a complex course that covers pretty much everything that you need to know about plumbing in Revit.

It's available on my website, balkanarchitect .com, and it's going to be the first link just below the video in the description.

So make sure to check it out if you want to learn plumbing in depth, step by step, all of the tools explained slowly.

So if you're interested to check that out.

Also, before we start, make sure to like this video.

It helps me out a lot, and it helps share the video to other users that might want to see it.

And finally, make sure to subscribe because I make useful Revit tutorials each week and it makes sense not to miss them.

So make sure to subscribe.

Anyways, without any further ado, let's get straight into Revit.

And here we are in Revit.

So let's get started by going here to models, then going to new.

And for the template file, I'm actually going to go with my architecture design template.

Now, I know what you might be thinking doesn't

it make more sense to go with some sort of a plumbing template

and yes it does

but before we can go to plumbing we have to create an architecture model that's going to include our bathroom

and all the fixtures in that bathroom

and then we can connect those with our plumbing systems

so i'm just going to use my architecture design template now

if you're interested in checking out my templates

you can find them both on my website balkanarctic .com that's going to be the third link in the description

so check that out if you're interested anyways let's just click okay

and let's let revit start right up

so as soon as revit starts up i'm simply going to go here into the level one floor plan

and let's just create a simple room for our bathroom so i'm simply going to go here to the wall tool,

and I'm going to choose this interior bearing wall just because it has a little bit of thickness to that.

I'm going to go to the rectangle tool, and then let's create a simple rectangle like so.

Also, it makes sense to add some sort of a floor.

So let's go to the floor tool, and then here for the floor type, I'm just going to use the interior tile floor,

and I'm going to use the rectangle tool again

and create a simple rectangle like so hit finish and as you can see we have those nice tiles

okay now it's time to start inserting some plumbing fixtures

now for the plumbing fixtures what I'm going to be using is going to be the BIM project plugin

that well it's a cloud -based library where you can access families straight from the manufacturers these are really nice quality families.

And the reason why I especially like them is because they do include all of the necessary connectors for the plumbing families.

Now, don't worry, if you don't know what connectors are, you are going to learn in this video.

But this is something that's quite important for setting up the plumbing.

And these plumbing families that we have here actually all have those important connectors.

Now, if you're interested in getting this plugin and having access to all of these families,

it's completely free, and I'm just going to be leaving a link in the description just below the video, so check it out if you're interested.

There's quite a bit of nice families to find.

Anyways, I'm going to go straight here to showers.

Let's start off with a simple shower.

Let's see, this one looks kind of nice and elegant.

So here you have the option to request properties and play around with the dimensions.

I'm very happy with this one, so I'm just going to select that one and go to add to project.

Now, as soon as I click that, we have the option to create this family or to load this family.

Now, only modification that I'm going to be making is going to be here to perhaps shorten the name a little bit.

I'm annoyed when they have a long name

so that's what i'm going to change and then here you can choose

which parameters you want to include and which you don't want to include

so uh if you

if you want to kind of uh not have some uh parameters loaded in at this stage

you can just check them off

and then obviously at any point later on you can add them back in anyways

i'm just going to click continue

and that's going to add this shower stall to my project

so we just have to wait for a few seconds for that family to load and to be Well,

download it from the cloud and load it into our Revit project.

Now, here it is.

I'm just going to hit the space key and place it here in this corner.

Click just like that.

Hit the escape a couple of times.

And then here below, I'm just going to change the detail level to fine.

And now we can see there we go.

We have the shower stall.

And remember that I said that connectors are important.

These are the connectors.

See, it says create pipe.

So it has the ability to attach a 15 millimeter pipe, a sanitary pipe, and that's why these families are so important.

Okay, let's move forward.

I want to add some more elements.

So the next one is going to be the wash basin.

So let's see.

Let's search for something that's going to look nice.

Perhaps I'm going to use not that one, but this one seems elegant enough off

so let's go to add to project again it's going to give us all the parameters

that are available you can check them on or off as you will

or as you wish

and let's let it load in as well

it's really good to have kind of access to this library

even though the families aren't loaded in you can just load them in real quickly

so I'm just going to place that here

and yeah let's just place it like so escape a couple of times

and then also make sure to select it

and give it a proper elevation

so i'm just going to place it at 90 centimeters

and i do suggest

you always go to the default 3d view just to double check what everything looks like in 3d

because sometimes it might look good in a floor plan

but then when you go to 3d it looks well off uh also for this uh now

for this sink you can see

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that here we have a pipe for the sanitary pipe a 50 millimeter out

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but we do have to have some sort of vein in for the faucet both cold

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and hot water so we have to include the faucet as well

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so let me go back here find faucets

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and as you can see we have many different choices i'm just going to go with something quite simple

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and elegant i like this one at the project so let's add

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that one in as well okay here you can see the faucet

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now i'm just going to place it like this on the ground

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and then let me select it and give it

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that 90 centimeter offset

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and then we can just go to the floor plan view to set it up in the correct place

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and here you can see that we have that cold

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and hot water in so that's why the faucet was

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so important also moving forward let's add the toilet

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so i'm going to add this one just include

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that one in the project as well

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and here i'm going to place it on this wall just like

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so select it and then for the elevation

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or the offset i'm going to add 40 centimeters and if i go to the 3d view

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yeah this is what that looks like

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and also as you can see it has the 100 millimeter out

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and a 15 millimeter in for those connectors so that's important as well

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and finally for the shower

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we need some sort of a in for the shower some sort of a connector there

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so for that I'm going to go here to shower systems

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and I'm going to choose one of these for example this one add to project

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and let's continue and add that one as well

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and once it's loaded in let's place

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it here let's give it an elevation of let's go with 90 as well

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and then finally here in level one we should probably attach

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it to the wall again go to the 3d view just to double check here in level one

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I think it's a little bit oops I think it's a little bit off

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so I'm going to try to kind of attach it there just to make it centered

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and there we go

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so for this one again we have the ins we have the out for the shower so now

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that our bathroom is pretty much complete i'm just going to make it a little bit shorter like

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so go into a level one and perhaps let's add a door there

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that would be nice

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so let's add just a simple door here i'm going to go with an 80 centimeter door just like so.

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So there we go.

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Our little bathroom is now completed and now we can start playing around with plumbing.

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And now it's time to model the actual plumbing.

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So what I'm going to do is go here to models and then go to you.

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And in this case, I'm just going to be using the default plumbing template

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that comes with Revit just because it has some of the settings and the piping and routing preferences and all of that,

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which is quite useful to get started.

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And I talk a lot more about this in the actual plumbing course.

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Now we have to load in our architectural model.

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So you want to go here to the insert tab

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and then you want to go to a link Revit and I have it here on my desktop.

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Here we have the bathroom for plumbing.

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I'm just going to hit open.

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It's going to open that up.

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Now here you'll notice that only the plumbing fixture will appear with regular dark black lines.

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Everything else will be grayed out.

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Now, a problem that we do have here is if we want to select one of these items, we have to use the tab key first.

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And then even when we select, remember those connectors that I was showing you?

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Well, they don't appear here.

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The reason for that is this is still part of the linked model, so it doesn't appear.

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But what you can do to kind of override

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that is just come in here and select all of these plumbing items that we need.

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So I'm just going to hover over the water closet here, right -click, or sorry, use the tab key to highlight it,

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hold the control key to add the selection, and just repeat that process for the rest of these items.

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Don't forget the faucet because it's important as well.

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Now, once you select all of these, what you want to do next is go to the clipboard, copy that to clipboard, go to paste,

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and then just align it at the same place.

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Click okay.

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And now, once it's done, if I select the sync here, you will see that now we have that connector,

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and that's exactly what we want to see.

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Okay, now it's time to, well, actually get started connecting everything.

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So I like to do the plumbing first and then the sanitary system later.

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So let me select first the faucet here, go to the hot water, for example.

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And then if I want to pull it out like this, and if I click, it's going to say that it cannot be done.

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Now, the reason for that is because this particular faucet wants that to be connected below.

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So it wants a vertical pipe.

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So what you want to do is just go here to the middle elevation

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and set it to something lower like 800 millimeters.

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And now when it goes down, it can be done.

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Now we want to go into the wall a little bit, perhaps like that.

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And then I'm just going to go off to the side here, just like so.

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Now, once we have that, I want to connect my shower to that same hot water pipe.

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So for that, that, what we can do is go here to the floor plan view, select that shower, let's see,

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there we go, go to the hot water.

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And if I just connect it like this, it's immediately going to create that solution.

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See how it kind of added all of the elements there.

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And now if I go perhaps here to find level of detail, now, as you can see, it's showing everything that it requires.

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now if these pipes are a bit thin you can always go here

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and change the diameter so

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if I see this pipe is 25 I can perhaps set

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this pipe to 25 as well now as you can see it connects properly

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and then we can use a thin pipe for this one okay moving forward let's do the second one

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so the cold water one again let's change the middle elevation

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to something like let's go to 700 for this one again

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go out a little bit a little bit less like so and then go off to here just like so

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there we go i like doing things in 3d

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because well revit has that power and i think it's useful to utilize utilize

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that because well all of this plumbing is a lot easier to understand when you're working in 3D.

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Anyways, let us go back now into the floor plan view.

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Again, select the shower column, go here to the cold water in, and then just connect here.

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And again, it's just going to do the same thing.

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Again, we have a problem where this is thicker than this pipe here.

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So let's just make this one bigger, just like so.

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Perfect.

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And then it just continues off.

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Now here, we want to connect the water closet as well.

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Also, for that, perhaps it makes sense to go again to the floor plan view, go to the in.

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Oops.

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Let's see.

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Let's try that again.

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Okay.

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Yeah, we want the cold water connector.

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There we go.

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Connect.

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And this is what that does.

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So it connects it like this.

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Now here, I think, again, this is thicker.

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Yeah, this one's 15.

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So we can increase this to 15. So there we go.

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So the pipe goes from 25 to 15 and then finally to 10.

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That's probably what it would look like in real life.

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Okay, so we've managed to get the water to our fixtures.

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Now it's time to take the water away by adding the sanitary system.

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So I like to start off with the water closet.

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So let's go here to the out.

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And then really important here, you want to go to the piping and go to slope down.

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So make sure that the pipes slope down.

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I'm going to use the slope of two degrees.

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And then go into the wall, obviously.

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And then we can just go down a little bit.

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So let's go to the middle elevation here and set this to minus 100.

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Like so.

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And then go all the way out.

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Perfect.

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See?

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Okay.

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Now let's connect the shower.

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So the shower we can connect.

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What I like to do is I like to see where that shower is.

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So, for example, if I go here to this should be, let's see.

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Okay, that should be this elevation.

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Okay, zoom in and then you see the pipe here.

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So I like to go to the measure tool and measure from the center of the shower. Is this the shower?

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No. Okay, so from the center of the shower to here.

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So that's 120 millimeters.

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So what I'm going to do is go here to the 3D view or no, let's go to the floor plan view,

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select the shower, and then we have this out and then let's go down to minus 110 perhaps.

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And then you want to connect it.

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Now, if it doesn't connect immediately, the problem is we don't see it.

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Okay, it did connect.

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There we go.

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Perfect.

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But it kind of went through.

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We don't want that.

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So let's go one step back let's see

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so the problem is we cannot really see this pipe in the floor plan view

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so in order to avoid

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that we want to see it what we need to do is go here to the properties panel

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and then go to view range go to edit

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and just set it to unlimited at the bottom

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and also at the view depth apply okay

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and also let's switch this to find a level of detail there we go

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and now finally when we select the shower we go to out again we set

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that to minus let's go minus 110 and then we just attach it like

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so perfect go to the 3d view this is what

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that looks like see that's why we've measured

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so we we can attach it at the similar elevation that's what we want it was 120

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but we went to 110 just to give it a little bit more room for slope here

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and then finally you want to attach this as well

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so what I'm going to do is just select this pipe

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and extend it up and it's just going to continue

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that slope now a problem that arises here is the fact

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that this now goes kind of like a bend

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and it shouldn't be a bend it should be a t

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so you just delete that and then you just extend this down

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and you solve that problem

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so for planning in Revit you'll see there is a lot of this little back

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and forth to kind of connect everything

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but in the end everything works out finally let's go to this out

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we can go to the floor plan view go to that out

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the middle elevation is 700 here so let's bring

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that down to four oops not 4000 but 400 there we go

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and then you can just go out like

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that hit the escape a couple of times

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and then what I like to do is go to the Modify tab and simply use

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Trim and Extend to connect these two.

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And this is what we get in the end.

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Now, obviously, this isn't going to work for each bathroom, and you're probably going to have some rules, regulations, preferences, and so on.

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And that's why I created that course where I can go in depth

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for hours and explain all of the possibilities and all of the methods

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that you can use in order to well get everything not only to work

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but to correspond to your regulation and also to kind of work with the design

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but this was kind of a quick demonstration of how to

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connect all the items on a simple bathroom such as we have over here

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so i hope you have enjoyed this video i hope

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you have learned something new as i said please check out the course

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it will be the first link in the description uh check out my patreon page

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that will be the second link in the description and also

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if you want to check out the bim project dot cloud check

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that out as well it's a free plugin it allows you to use all these useful families

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so that link will be included in the description as well okay so without any thing else to do.

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Thank you for watching.

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Make sure to comment, like, and share this video.

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Make sure to subscribe, and I'll be back with another Balkan Architect tutorial in a couple of days.

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Thank you for watching, and have a nice day.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “Plumbing for a Simple Bathroom in Revit Tutorial”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: plumbing, shower, pipe, connect, select. This video has 303 sentences and 3497 words to shadow. The speech runs for 19:39. The speaker talks at a natural 178 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 87% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
plumbing noun	/ˈplʌmɪŋ/	The pipes, together with the joints, tanks, stopcocks, taps, and other fixtures of a water, gas, or sewage system in a house or other building.
connect verb	/kəˈnɛkt/	To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object.
pipe noun	/ˈpaɪp/	A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the tube.
select verb	/sɪˈlɛkt/	To choose one or more elements of a set, especially a set of options.
elevation noun	/ˌɛlɪˈveɪʃn̩/	The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.
attach verb	/əˈtæt͡ʃ/	To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).
template noun	/ˈtɛm.plɪt/	A physical object whose shape is used as a guide to make other objects.
anyways adverb	/ˈɛn.iˌweɪz/	Anyway, anyhow, in any case.
slope noun	/sloʊp/	A surface that either inclines or declines in a regular manner from the perspective of an observer.
fixture noun	/ˈfɪks.t͡ʃə/	Something that is fixed in place, especially a permanent appliance or other item of personal property that is considered part of a house and is sold with it…
minus	/ˈmaɪ.nəs/	Made less or reduced by (followed by an expression of number or quantity).
cloud noun	/ˈklaʊ̯d/	A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
architecture noun	/ˈɑː.kɪˌtɛk.t͡ʃə/	The art and science of designing and managing the construction of buildings and other structures, particularly if they are well proportioned and decorated.
extend verb	/ɛkˈstɛnd/	To increase in extent.
closet noun	/ˈklɑzɪt/	A small room within a house used to store clothing, food, or other household supplies.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
check out verb		To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.).
move forward verb		To cause to make progress.
go back verb		To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time.
go down verb		To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one.
go out verb		To leave, especially a building.
set up verb	/ˌsɛt ˈʌp/	To make ready for use.
go through verb		To travel from one end of something to the other.
have over verb		To host (a visiting guest) at one's house.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

Anyways, I'm going to go straight here to showers.
Let's start off with a simple shower.
Let's search for something that's going to look nice.
I'm just going to hit open.
I'm going to use the slope of two degrees.

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	aren't loaded · is now completed · will be grayed
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	have requested · have actually created · we've managed

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 68 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, you're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: thin /ˈθɪn/, thick /θɪk/, thickness /ˈθɪknəs/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: elevation /ˌɛlɪˈveɪʃn̩/, regulation /ˌɹɛɡjʊˈleɪʃən/, demonstration /dɛmənˈstɹeɪʃən/, dimension /daɪˈmɛn.ʃən/, modification /ˌmɑdɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
Long words — get the stress right: architecture /ˈɑː.kɪˌtɛk.t͡ʃə/, parameter /pəˈɹæm.ə.tɚ/, regulation /ˌɹɛɡjʊˈleɪʃən/, manufacturer /ˌmænjʊˈfæktʃəɹə/, unlimited /ʌnˈlɪm.ɪ.tɪd/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like plumbing, connect, pipe.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

Key vocabulary in this video

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Sentences worth repeating

Grammar in this video

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

What is the Shadowing Technique?