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Adding insulation to ductwork and piping

Adding insulation to ductwork and piping

From the course: BIM Tools

Adding insulation to ductwork and piping

- [Instructor] In this video, we're going to do something simple but important. What I'd like to do is add insulation to a run of duct work. Under models, let's go new. For the template file, I'm going to click the pull down here. I'd like to use Imperial Systems template. I like that template. It's new. Create a new project. Click okay. By default, we're landed in one mech floor plan. You know, I'm okay with that. Let's go the systems tab. Let's click on duct. I don't care what size or the elevation. Just going to start modeling duct. So just start drawing pieces of duct. Maybe I'll change my middle elevation to six feet. Give us a nice drop. Change it to four feet. There we go. Hit escape a few times. Let's go to a 3D view. Let's change our detail level to fine. And I guess we can change our visual style to shaded. Ooh, that looks good. Now if we hover over one of these pieces of duct and hit tab…

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