Rainwater Pipes & Gutters

[rocks-e]

Hello,

I was wondering does anybody know how to insert rainwater pipes and gutters into a revit model as i would like to incorporate them into my 3D model.

Regards
Eoin Rocks

[trombe]

Hi welcome to AUGI Revit,

for the case of gutters, you must read the Help on this as its clear and important.
That said, gutters, are created by hosting a (in this case) gutter "profile" to the host , in this case the roof.
You must make sure you have the "profile family" you want loaded into the open project.

Revit will load a default suite of gutter and fascia or just a gutter so you don't need to create your own to begin with.
To action the tool and assuming you have made the roof, and are using Revit 2010.
Open a 3D view for example, and on the Home Tab, select Roof and the Roof drop down box will show the 6 options, with the lower 3 being Roof Soffit, Fascia and Gutter, select the one you want. The tool is now active.


Go to the top edge line, of the roof that represents the top outer edge of roof cladding and click on that.
The roof will now host the fascia or gutter or both if you have that selection chosen.
Continue clicking on all edges that you intend to have fascia / gutters to.
Notice that the gutter, mitre joins at internal and external corners automatically.
Notice that when you finish the gutter selections, and you have a section that does not meet another at the same planar height, the result is an open ended gutter.
Bummer, this is the extent of the current tool implementation.

Notice that if you accidentally choose the wrong edge / line of the roof or another acceptable host, the gutter will snap to that.

Notice that if you have created any roof sections or parts of a roof or multiple roofs that you intend to host a gutter to, that are not co-planar , that is to say, not all precisely aligned in either the horizontal or vertical planes, Revit will not make the joins cleanly or in some case not at all.
To correct this, you must ensure that you edit the roof to make sure the relevant bits are aligned (it might be a hip or valley or dormer or something else like that , which is not aligned properly)

Note that you can have multiple roofs that are joined to each other (Modify Tab - join / un-join roof) or not joined to each other, but that are precisely aligned, and the gutter will join even though it is not one single complete roof.
For fascia sections, note that these can be click selected to flip their mirror orientations.
To adjust fascia or gutter sections before, during or after placement, go to the element properties on the LH end of ribbon, top half of tab and you can make the adjustments for vertical positions etc. there.
You also have the opportunity to make some of these set up elements inside the family editor for when you get into using known manufacturers profiles of (typically still unfortunately) dwg files, and convert them into Revit rfa profiles inside the family editor.


To place a rain head or downpipe, there are a few options, however the 2 cabs first off rank are that Revit has a default DP with a couple of offsets sections to suit a 2' (or whatever) soffit / eave and that is cranked...you can adjust to suit. Or, you can make your own families for downpipes / components, as you need, or score some from Revitcity or buy some from TurboSquid etc.

Same for rain heads.
Instead of hosting these as above you could set them up as face based families where the fascia can be the face so when you hover for a host, the fascia will become the option and the rain head will associate itself to that, or, you could just place it manually and tweak to suit.
Others here will have several other options for advice.

Hope this is of some use to you, good luck
regards
trombe