Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
Modeling Methods for Power and Systems Devices
Power and systems plans can easily be created in your Revit model to show
the locations of outlets and other types of electrical devices. You can use
symbols, model elements, or a combination of the two to represent the
designlayout.Thechoiceyoumakedependsonthelevelofcoordinationyou
want to achieve and the amount of information you intend to extract from
the design.
Revit MEP 2015 comes with basic device components for creating electrical
layouts. Because you do not need to go into great detail to model these
small elements, it is easy to create your own device families that match
your company standards for electrical symbols. We cover creating electrical
devices in Chapter 21, “Creating Devices,” and we cover creating symbols in
Chapter 18, “Creating Symbols and Annotations.”
The Device button on the Systems tab is used for placing a device into your
model. This is a split tool with two parts. Clicking the top half of the button
invokes the command to insert an electrical device. Clicking the bottom half
of the button reveals a drop-down menu of specific categories of devices,
as shown in
Figure 13.1
. When you select a specific type of device from the
drop-down menu, the top half of the Device button changes to match the
category you have chosen. You can then click the top half of the button to
invoke the command to insert that type of device. Selecting a device from a
specific category causes the Type Selector to populate only with devices in
that category.
