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Sizing duct

Sizing duct - Revit MEP Tutorial

From the course: Revit 2019: Essential Training for MEP (Imperial)

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Sizing duct

- [Instructor] You can size your duct one of two ways. One, you can let Revit do it or you can simply do it yourself. This time, let's see how Revit sizes duct. To allow Revit to automatically size duct we must first chop the duct up approximately where we want it to reduce or increase in size based on the calculated air flow going through that specific duct. Once we chop, or I should say split the duct, we can then run an air flow analysis and allow Revit to size it for us. In mechanical category, let's go to ceiling plans one ceiling mech. Let's zoom in on our duct work and what I want to do is I want to create a split here, here, and then here. If you go to the modify tab you can click the split button. Or if you'll notice when I hover over the split element icon you'll see that in parenthesis it says "SL" You can also type "SL" and that will be the keyboard shortcut for split element. Once you start the command you'll see an X-Acto knife. I'm going to pick a point right between…

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