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Adding Connectors to Equipment Families
The connectors that you add to an equipment family will ultimately
determinethetypesofsystemsforwhichthatfamilywillbeavailableinyour
Revit projects. Connectors can be added for the completion of air, fluid, and
electrical systems when the family is selected as the system's equipment in
your project.
In most cases, the location of connectors on equipment families is easily
handled by geometry modeled specifically for the connector. However, it is
not always necessary to have connector geometry. Some equipment families
are simply used for equipment location and do not need to be modeled to
any level of detail. Early in the design of a project, you may want to use
placeholder equipment families until specified equipment can be chosen
based on calculations. It is still helpful for these types of families to have
connectors so that duct, pipe, and conduit can be connected and system
analysis can be performed.
If you place the connectors by reference planes, you can dimension directly
to a connector by selecting it and then activating the temporary dimension
to the center of the connector. Once it is activated, you can associate the
dimension to a parameter. This can be done only if you use the Work
Plane option for placing the connector. Using the Face option constrains
the connector to the center of the face so its location cannot be changed
without changing the host face. Figure 19.11 shows how a connector placed
on a Work Plane can be dimensioned and parametrically managed.
 
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