⚙️Revit MEP Families Tricks with Ryan Schalk | BIM Pure Live

Ryan Schalk is a senior plumbing design engineer, a Revit expert, and a content creator at MEP Guy.

This episode is for all MEP folks out there! You will learn tricks to make your MEP families for efficient. You will learn:

⚙️ Strategies for efficient MEP connectors
⚙️ Examples of plumbing families with moving connectors
⚙️ Using lookup tables for valve fittings
⚙️ Nesting symbols and controlling the visibility of annotations
⚙️ Using manufacturer equipment the smart way

And more!

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🎵 Music by: Ile Flottante


Timestamps:

0:00 - Pre-show music
0:31 - Intro & announcements
4:50 - Giveaway
6:12 - Chatting with Ryan
10:32 - Giveaway winner
11:08 - What are good families?
13:41 - What are bad families?
15:27 - What makes families heavy?
16:51 - Keep families simple
18:14 - MEP vs Architectural - Connectors
20:29 - Ryan’s announcements
22:49 - MEP families’ demo - Connectors
32:28 - MEP families’ demo - System
40:50 - Tagging air terminals
44:30 - Q&A from chat
48:10 - Calculate air-handling unit airflow
54:40 - Q&A from chat
57:27 - MEP modular systems library
59:05 - How can an architect prepare the model for MEP?
1:01:34 - MEP families visibility graphics
1:03:27 - Nesting symbols and visibility of annotations
1:07:13 - Wrap Up
1:10:28 - Post-show music