BIM Tools Weekly

- [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, we're going to select them all. Once we do that, hover, tab, pick. We'll throw a couple end caps on there just because. Let's click cap open ends. Two caps are added. Perfect. Let's close out of here. Now that they're capped, look at this. We can add insulation. So under the duct insulation panel, we can click on add insulation. Now insulation type, we have two here: duct wrap or rigid fiberboard. If we click edit type, we can duplicate this type of duct wrap if we want. Let's keep it at duct wrap and look what makes it duct wrap. So our material is insulation duct wrap. So if we click on the little browse button here, we'll see, well, we've got the duct wrap and the fiberglass right there. Look at the appearance graphic. It's just a typical material. I'll take the defaults here, and we'll keep it on duct wrap. We'll click okay. We'll click okay. For the thickness, I'll make it two inches. We'll click okay. There we go. Hit escape a couple times. Zoom in on it. Now our duct is actually this thickness. I feel a lot better about this. If we come over to one of our ducts and select it, click edit insulation. Notice that in our properties, we have duct insulation, duct wrap. Now, our system is going to be supply air because that's what the piece of duct was that we actually added it to. Insulation thickness. So now we can change it branch by branch. If we want to change that thickness, we could. We can click edit type. And here we are back to that type properties. We could duplicate this duct, make a new one, if it's plastic, whatever we want, PVC. It's okay. Click okay. Hit escape a few times. There you go. That's how you add insulation to a run of duct.