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truevis
2008-11-21, 09:43 PM
I’ve made a new family to represent a pipe tap.

It started with a standard tee. Revit considers it just a tee but now it looks more like a tap.
How to use:

Trim your two coplanar pipes
Delete the Pipe Transition
Change the Tee to “Pipe Tap:Standard”
Pull little pipe away by dragging its endpoint and connect it back up. The tap will resize according to the size of the little pipe.

PS: Technical point: This is the longest Conditional Statement in a formula I’ve ever used in a Revit Family!
Tap Thickness = if(Tap Diameter < 0' 1 1/4", 0' 1 1/16", if(Tap Diameter < 0' 2", 0' 1 5/16", if(Tap Diameter < 0' 2 1/2", 0' 1 5/8", if(Tap Diameter < 0' 3", 0' 1 5/8", if(Tap Diameter < 0' 3 1/2", 0' 1 3/4", if(Tap Diameter < 0' 5", 0' 2 1/4", 0' 3 11/16")))))):beer:

jason.martin
2008-11-25, 09:00 PM
Certainly interesting.

I had another idea. I just took the duct tap and "messed with it" for about 5 minutes. Seems to be working OK as a pipe tap (of course I've not really tested it much).