From the course: Revit: Fire-Alarm Systems Design

Adding in wires - Revit MEP Tutorial

From the course: Revit: Fire-Alarm Systems Design

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Adding in wires

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- [Instructor] Some frames like showing wiring, some just show tags on each device, some show nothing. I want to show the spaghetti in this lesson. If your circuits are in place, wiring can be a real treat. It's pretty automatic, sometimes to automatic. The objective here is to look at a few different ways to wire up the plan. In Revit, let's go open browse to where you're keeping your exercise files. I'm gonna open my wires model. Let's wire up the boardroom. Hover over any one of these devices, when we hover over it, notice that it will become highlighted but not selected, don't pick it, hover over it and hit tab. Now once we've hit tab, select it. What we can do is, we can actually add this wiring exactly the way it shows. If you click on this little arc wire icon right here, it will do just that. Hit escape a couple times. I'm gonna select my boardroom tag and move that out of the way a little bit. Notice now, I can select my home run, we can kind of move that around, we can point it where we want, we can keep it inside of that room if you want. It's usually a little cleaner. Let's come over to this office, I'm gonna hover over this device, hit tab, I'm gonna select it. This time I'm gonna show the chanford wire, so I'm gonna select this, I'm not a big fan of how that looks but if you like it, it's gonna work for you. Maybe move my home run back a little bit. In my kitchen, I'll do the same. I'll tab pick, and I'm gonna automatic wire the arc, you can also click these icons up here if these are obscured. Next thing I wanna do is draw on some wires automatically. If you're not a big fan of how Revit's automatically wiring it for you, you can just do it automatically. If we go to the systems tab, then we click wire, arc wire, what you need to do is just make sure you click it right on the node. So I'm gonna click this point right here. It's an arc wire, so I'm gonna pick the second point of my arc, now I'm gonna come down and pick to where I want it to connect at this one, and it's gonna kind of jump it back and it's gonna wire that. Now, I can set a home run. So if I come in and I find again, the points. Pick a point here, pick a point here, now you just put a little pig tail on that, because I didn't go to a second device, Revit understands that this is gonna be the home run, and it's gonna home run it to that panel for me. If you select that wire, you'll notice that you can see all the attributes associated with it. The circuit load name, I know is fire alarm space four, but that's okay, we're gonna change that later. It also knows that it's going to panel FACP-02, and it's the first circuit on that. Hit escape a couple times. And there you have it, it's that easy.

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