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Figure 16.7 Fire-protection system in the System Browser
Filtering Fire-Protection Systems
Once your fire-protection system is created, you need to make sure the
piping will filter correctly. You can use filters to separate the fire-protection
pipes from all other pipes in your Revit model. This assists you with turning
off all other pipes from the fire-protection views and sheets.
For controlling the linetypes and line colors of your systems, you should
use piping systems, located in the Project Browser under Families. From the
piping systems properties, you can assign the color, linetype, and system
abbreviation for your systems. From the same dialog box, you can also
disable the flow calculations for your fire systems if they are not required.
This increases your Revit project performance and does not waste system
resources on computing systems' flow data that may not be important to
you.
The main benefit of using this relatively new method of controlling your
colors and linetypes vs. using the old method of filters is that the settings
are global and apply to all views. You still need to manage filters in order to
control what systems are visible in what views. But at least when you cut a
sectionorgotoa3Dview,allofyourcomponentsthatarealreadyconnected
to a system will be displaying the appropriate colors and linetypes, without
the need to apply a view template.
 
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