Drawing Refrigerant Piping and connecting to Equipment

[bigislander72]

I am very new to the program but have completed the Autodesk tutorials. They leave a lot of questions to be answered, so here goes.

It seems the only system that can be generated is a hydronic supply. How can the system reflect the refrigerant vapor/liquid lines? Basically, how do I go about drawing the piping for, say a split system ductless A/C, with an outdoor ACCU and several indoor FCU's. Need three lines, low pressure vapor to the ACCU, high pressure liquid from the ACCU to FCU's and liquid condensate drain. Can pressure drops/sizing and such be calculated as well?

Thanks for any replies and sorry for the newb question!

[Jrobker]

I am very new to the program but have completed the Autodesk tutorials. They leave a lot of questions to be answered, so here goes.

It seems the only system that can be generated is a hydronic supply. How can the system reflect the refrigerant vapor/liquid lines? Basically, how do I go about drawing the piping for, say a split system ductless A/C, with an outdoor ACCU and several indoor FCU's. Need three lines, low pressure vapor to the ACCU, high pressure liquid from the ACCU to FCU's and liquid condensate drain. Can pressure drops/sizing and such be calculated as well?

Thanks for any replies and sorry for the newb question!

That is a great question.

Here is a link to a very useful video tutorial that can get you started on creating systems.

http://inside-the-system.typepad.com...revit-mep.html

Pressure drops/sizing can be calculated. However this can be a little more involved, and I don't believe the canned tutorials well get you there.

[bigislander72]

That was a helpful and fun exercise, Thanks!

So basically I would just have to manually size draw these as a generic water supply pipe system? How about determining which connector is which from the family file?(say on condensor for previously mentioned split system) Do I have to just figure it out from the schematics or is some info pertaining to that available in the family's properties?