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hydronic supply and hydronic return system, you can see the total flows for
the entire model. You can use this flow summation to ensure that systems
are adding up to what you expect and to compare flows between systems.
That's just another way of using the benefits of systems during early design,
when not everything is connected yet.
Creating Fire-protection Systems
Fire-protection systems in Revit MEP are a sort of hybrid between air
systems and hydronic systems. Sprinklers, from a system standpoint, are
similar to air terminals. Sprinklers are designed to distribute a fluid evenly
over a given area, with pressure as the driving force of distribution. In
the case of fire protection, water is the fluid, and the fire pump or city
connection provides the pressure.
The key to a good, manageable fire-protection system is the families. Decide
what type of system you will be using, and make sure appropriate families
are developed before you or other users start laying out components. Revit
does have the ability to load a family in the place of another, but that tends
to cause issues with system connections, pipe connections, and hosting.
Sprinklers, standpipes, hose cabinets, and fire pumps may have to be
created for the systems to work properly.
Setting Display Properties of Systems
Pipesystemsaresimilartoductsystems,buttheydohavemoreparameters.
These can be found in the piping systems Type Properties dialog box, as
shown in
Figure 9.23
,
accessed from the Families section of the Project
Browser under Piping Systems.
