REVIT MEP FREE COURSE!! EP-04 - 120/240V-1PH Panel & Circuiting Receptacles - Electrical Tutorial transcript

hey guys this is Rob and welcome to episode four of the residential electrical Revit Series in this one we are going to cover how to Circuit these recepticles that we installed how to find and install a 12240 volt split phase panel board and how to connect these devices up to it we'll also show how to start drawing a single line oneline diagram of our system and how to more efficiently do that so if that interests you stick around let's get right into it so here we are again in our residential tutorial electrical project that we are treating like a commercial level of development and we have already Place receptacles and Equipment connections for the first floor and the second floor so we've already got all those placed and now we are going to look at getting some of these things circuited up to a panel this is where the real magic of Revit can shine in an electrical project is the systems that we create and connect all of these together to form calculations and load summaries that we can use to size things so let us get right into placing a panel board for this project or since it's residential we can call it a load Center style of panel which are typically used in residential the details are instead of having a bolt-on circuit breaker like a commercial panel board it is a plug on circuit breaker for residential use it's a cheaper panel electrically though it's going to just have a set voltage phase and current capacity so let's see if we can find one of those in this example project I'm trying to use is many of the built-in Revit families as I can in our commercial work we use a lot of custom families in fact that's kind of the first stepping stone into getting into Revit is to get your families created and customized but in this cas for learning how to use Revit and connect things together we're going to use what it comes with as much as we can so let us go look over here at our electrical equipment that is already in our model and we started with revit's built-in template so there's not much in here there's a Transformer ethernet switch we're not dealing with that and we've got two panel boards now these are typically three-phase panel boards for commercial use 208 is a three-phase voltage for commercial and so is 480 we are looking for a 12240 volt split phase panel which is common in the United States and and elsewhere in North America so we need to find a 12240 singlephase split phase panel so let's go up to our insert and remember this second load family is load Autodesk family it's got a little cloud in it this is where we can get to the out of the box Revit families that used to be loaded into your hard drive when you loaded Revit and I have a whole video which I'll link a card above that shows a lot of these different families and what's available so if you go into all results you'll see you have a lot of categories we'll go down to electrical and then remember that there's an architectural electrical section for Architects to use in their designs which does not have all of the electrical connectors that we need so we were going to skip past the architectural and go right to the me section connectors power appliances distribution now we want distribution go to distribution and you will see we have transfer switches circuit breakers switchboards starters a bunch of things so we want to go down lighting an appliance and if you hover over the name here you can see the full name right here that's a Lighting and Appliance panel board 208 that's what we already have it's also an MCB main circuit breaker well we don't have one of those either if we're doing commercial work and needed a main circuit breaker we would load that we lighting plance 208 surface so this one by not saying surface means recessed so there's different families for different types of mounting even this one is a lighting Appliance 208 main lug only mlo 208 480 480 H 480 480 now we have a metering switchboard uh motor control center more commercial industrial work motor control center a good old round plane Junction box look at this singlephase panel it says 120 volt main circuit breaker recessed well other than the 120 volt part we do need single phase even though it's going to be 12240 split phase they call it single phase because it doesn't have a third phase Revit calls it two-phase and this one is a 120 volt main circuit breaker surface so it sounds like these are typically made for residential use we're going to take the main circuit breaker version because we need a main circuit breaker in our house let's load this into our model it'll pop up down here under electrical equipment and there it is singlephase 120 volt let's hope it is just mislabeled now before we drag this in we have to figure out where is this thing going to go a lot of houses have a garage attached or separate and many times a panel or load Center will be placed in that garage it's a very common place we don't have a garage in fact let's look at the site again let's go up and 3D view it up here up the top at the quick access you can go to default 3D view click on that and it pops you into a 3D View and you can change the appearance of this down at the bottom you can go to what level of detail you want and architecturally it may not show much of a difference but if you go down to fine you'll see you get a little more refinement let's say on the solar panel pel you'll get a little more detail and then also you can change whether it's a wireframe hidden line shaded colors are realistic right now I think it's set on shaded if you go to wireframe it's indeed just a wireframe and it's you can see right through it and you can see a lot of our electrical boxes in here that we placed already but we want to look at more of a what does realistic do it takes a while to render a realistic and it'll apply things like materials and Lighting and all of that stuff to make it more of a realistic view maybe for a rendering Architects use this to provide their 3D rendering of the project that took a while and so it'll probably take a while to pan around it so I'm going to go back to just shaded which I find is enough for our purposes we just want to get an idea of what this place looks like and what we have so we have looks like kind of a narrow driveway coming into probably just a a parking area there's no structure here no garage so it doesn't make sense really to put the panel out here and have to run think of all the branch circuits that have to run into the house plus this is outside it would need to be weatherproof that is not a great idea we need to put the panel in this house somewhere now this is all part of the kind of a water collection system we don't want it out in here we don't want it outside let's find a place inside now the trick is this has to be coordinated with your architect your interior's people with your owner for appearance not many people want to see that panel face right when you walk into the building so second floor is where we enter from this raised walkway so that's the main entrance to the to the structure second floor so a panel in this main entry hall would be unsightly you don't want to put it be in a bedroom or master bedroom sometimes Apartments will have one thrown in a bedroom but in a house I find it best to put it in more of a utility space so what do we have on the first floor for utility spaces we have this mechanical space but we already have a furnace in here and we found out from our plumbing designer that there's going to be a water heater in here that we need to add so that's not a good place because looking at the NEC you need clearance in front of a panel board to service it and Main main it you have to have safety clearance working clearance in front of that so we need a place that has some clearance this will be full of equipment so it cannot be located in a bathroom but this is actually a separate laundry room which should work the panel door has to be able to swing at least 90° open we have to have clearance so what I'm thinking here is this wall right here facing into the Lund room would be clear yes the washer is has access in the front but there's nothing going to be really sitting here there's no clothes hanging here in front of this we can't be in a closet any of the rest of the laundry functions would happen in this area so I'm going to declare that the panel can be located right here on this wall facing into this laundry room and it is nice and close electrically to a lot of the equipment the kitchen has a lot of equipment and it's close to there so this makes it an economical choice now we also have to think of how power is going to get into this panel from outside and back to the 3D view we just did we don't have information for where power would come into this site yet but let's say that we talked to our utility company and we find out that there's a pole on the street they'll set a little Transformer out here nearby for us let's say they're going to put it somewhere somewhat flat because they don't want it on a grade let's say they'll put it here so it's going to come from out here and it needs to hit a meter now that meter location is something we also have to deal with it has to comply with utility requirements for reading the meter access to the meter if they need to work on it uh change it out so it needs to be outside now if the power comes from out here the meter is rated for outdoors so it could be placed somewhere out here and the meter typically has to be on the front of the house along the side within 5 ft front there's many different utility rules for this so we're just going to say for the sake of this example that the meter is actually going to be located out here on some kind of a drut riser on this wall here so that they can walk up read the meter so we will hit from the Transformer to the meter and then from the meter we will go into our panel board we will deal with the sight electrical later but we just want to make sure that this is feasible so let's go back to our first floor plan we're going to come in under the slab so that we we have to stay outside of the building again lot of code rules here we have to stay outside the building and under the slab is considered outside the building and then up into our panel board so long story short we're going to put our panel right here we're going to put a 200 amp panel right here now you want to make sure that you have the right selection up here it is a hosted family which means it has to attach to a wall hosted by a wall and a vertical face if you place on face here it's trying to place it on the floor or ceiling place on face typically means a horizontal face and sometimes here look at it's placing on top of that washer we don't want that place on vertical face and then you'll see that it it's recessing it kind of like we did receptacles but it's recessing it into the wall so we need to keep a little bit away from the end here because there's usually a stud on the end of this if you look at the construction so we'll place it some somewhere around here and the built-in panel board from Revit doesn't have a door doesn't have much of a symbol it's just a box but it serves its purpose it will let us connect things let's make sure we have the right settings in here so click on that and there's a bunch of settings over here for a panel and this is single face panel 120 now let's go look at this it is electrical data 120 volt single phas you don't often see a 120 volt single face panel we want to see if we can modify this to be a 12240 split phase we see that we cannot change this electrical data it's built in there's nowhere here distribution system in fact is none because we don't have a 120 volton distribution system in our model in fact let's look at that to make sure if you go up to manage there is MEP settings right here and go down to electrical settings and this has a bunch of settings that you deal with as you need to as you get more advanced and these are typically set up inside the template that you end up using so let's go to Distribution Systems now this shows the built-in Distribution Systems we can always add more right now it has a 1228 y 3phase four wire for commercial use there's our 120 240 single three wire system split phase so it's 240 Line to Line 120 line to ground or line to neutral so that is what we use for residential so that's good we have this in here and then there's a 480 3phase 277 y system now in other commercial jobs and I show this in a separate video we have to add a 120208 single phase system if we have Apartments because they are 208 not 240 that's a whole another story but we're good here we have the right one but we do not have a 120 volt only singlephase distribution system so this panel out of the box does not work let's see how to fix that without having to go into the editor so let's go to edit type maybe it's a type parameter if you recall all of these in here are called instance parameters if we had two panels in here of the same kind of panel these could vary between them because they're related to just that one instance so let's go to the actual type 225 amp is the type here are the par we can change luckily we can change the panel voltage and the number of poles so we're going to make this 240 we need to get the line to line voltage is 240 number of poles it's two poles there two phases so again Revit calls this a two-phase panel because it has two lines two line voltage phases if you recall split voltages has two Hots and a neutral so this is a 240 two pole panel now here's a bunch of dimensions and it includes different heights default elevation was four and we can move it around so now we have the voltage set up let's go make sure that applies down here so down here electrical data good 240 volt two phase we're set and look it assigned the proper distribution system automatically when we set it up properly so we are set now for 120 and 240 volt connections let's give this panel a name and not many people have a name to their panel in their house but we will just call this let's just call it panel some people call it the uh the the breaker box the fuse box so we're going to call it a panel even though it might be a load Center style construction and then we're going to move this out of the way and I'd like to put a tag on this we had to use dumb text labels here because there's no tag let's see if we have a tag for a piece of electrical equipment like a panel so let's go up to the tag by category shortcut up here and click on that and see what we get and look at that it pops up with the name of our panel which we called excitingly panel there's that it has a leader now we could get rid of this we could put this in without a leader go to the tag and then up here at the top you you can deal with leader you can un do the leader and then when you put it in it just centers it on the panel and then I pull this out right in front of it so that's another way and is actually Tagged so that it's a smart tag and this is what we want as much as we can in Revit is for the tag itself to relay what is the information inside the family that we Tagged so if we were to change this to P1 apply you see that the tag automatically reflects that change we can also change it here in the tag go back to panel and click on this family and you will see that the name got changed to panel so these are interrelated they are tied together and that is a huge benefit in in Revit as we change things we only change it once so the panel is set now we can start connecting our equipment hey and if you find this information useful I'd love it if you hit that like button down below to help propagate it to others and if you want to stick around for more electrical only Revit videos please hit subscribe and even leave a comment if you like now we have a lot of standard 120 volt receptacles we have some 240 volt equipment how do we connect all this now I'll mention again that there's a lot of NEC National electrical code rules for residences or dwelling units as they call them so again I'm not trying to teach a whole code class here but just remember that what you do here has to relate and comply with the national electoral code and any local modifications that you may have in your state or even in your city so I will Point again in my description below to a a great YouTube channel for Ryan Jackson Who covers a lot of NEC things and specifically has a three-part video series on residential receptacle type codes so you can check that out if you want to learn more about those codes but the basics are in a kitchen for example let's start here we have to have two small appliance Branch circuits that service the countertop equipment and can also service things like the refrigerator now you can go above and beyond those two but nothing else can be on those two circuits so one tool we already used the three default 3D you can also use the second one called camera now it drops a kind of a perspective view of what we're looking at but you can do that inside so I'm going to hit camera and let's say I want to take a take a picture of this kitchen now where's a good point this happens to be a giant column in the middle of the room so that's not good let's take a picture from way down here and we'll click it and then you aim where you want to look and it's showing your field of view aim clear down to the past the end of this kitchen there there that's our kitchen now it's a mess the default view is an electrical view where you can see through the walls and you can see all all our equipment now we can change that to different kinds of views go to shaded so that makes it look a little different but I want to make this so I can't see all this through the wall stuff one easy way is to go up to the discipline up top it's electrical just go to coordination and that will change settings if you hit apply that'll change all the settings so that the walls are not transparent so there we go and that really shows what our kitchen looks like it's a nice view you can also hit f8 right here and you can use the look tool right here click on that and hold it down and you can drag around and look around your model and he can even drag it off the screen and so we can look around and see what this thing looks like in 3D which will really help to visualize the space you're dealing with you can even apply a walk but I warn you that if you barely move the mouse forward like just creep it it moves fairly quickly so let me go just a little bit beyond my circle and you can see that I can do a slow walk through this so this gives you another good idea of what's going on you can also do sections elevations but I find that this 3D view really helps and it depends on how well the architect did it modeling of course but you can see our cooktop here that we hooked up you can see our dishwasher this helps to find those appliances that we had to find last time and there's this Hood that's sticking down from the ceiling exhaust Hood hit f8 again they can look around this shows that we have these two countertops that I'm saying we uh need to get circuited we could share we could put one circuit on this countertop and another circuit on this countertop which is probably the most efficient way to do it and let's go that route I mean you could split two circuits between them but let's just go with the separate circuit so back to first floor so here we are with our countertops and these are are out of the box countertop receptacles let's get started by circuiting these up we're going to hook all four of these countertop receptacles up to one circuit well how do we do that if you click on one receptacle you will see the power button up here this creates a circuit think of it as connecting Upstream if you're thinking about your panels the top and it feeds down to the receptacles so the panel is Upstream from you we're connecting an upstream connection so we can click on this and then we can edit the circuit well right now we just need to connect it to a panel we can select the panel visually by hitting this clicking on this and then find the panel in the model and our panel's close enough where that may work the other thing we can do is just hit the drop down for panel now panels that have the appropriate dis distribution system set up that we can connect to will show up in the drop down if this was a commercial job and we had 4 80 volt panels and 208 volt panels only the panels of the voltage of the receptacle the 120 volt panels 120 208 volt panels would show up in this list so that's an indication also that you have things set up properly so we can again click on that now if you've already hit power and you reclick on it again you can't get to the power button again because it already assigned that to a circuit even though you haven't picked a panel so go back up to the electrical circuit box now you get you get this box again let's go to panel and let's set our panel called panel there and it put a little blue little arrow thing on it which ends up being a home run symbol The Arc with an arrow which we will add later right now we've connected this receptacle to a circuit in the panel M this is still highlighted over here you can see that I'm on circuit number one and it's set up with a breaker type connection the load name the name that will pop up in the panel schedule is just recepticle I like to name these here because it's easiest to do while I'm connecting things up and I remember what area of the building am I in so I'm going to call this receptical kitchen so it's one of the one of the kitchen circuits and then you can set ratings and Frames here for that breaker kitchen circuits or small appliance Branch circuits as they're technically called must be a 20 amp circuit you'll have other circuits in the house that'll be 15 amp this is a 20 so leave it as 20 we don't worry about wire types and all that kind of stuff right now so we will just get the load name and the rating of the breaker and all that right now all this can be changed later but I like to do as much of this as I can as I'm going I find it easy to do as I'm circuiting so that's great now I could just be done with this and have that circuited but I want to add the rest of these receptacles onto this circuit now when I already have this highlighted I can simply go to this electrical circuits and say edit circuit and then it automatically pops up with add to the Circuit so now I'm in add mode and I'm in kind of a sketch mode adding and I can just hover over you can see these receptacles are somewhat grayed out if they're not on the circuit mine is a little darker than these are so this means that these are not on my circuit but as I select and click on one it darkens now that's going to be added to my circuit so I'm selecting the receptacles that I want and I find this a nice easy way to do this and when I'm done selecting those finish editing the circuit and now they're all connected well how can I tell they don't look any different now the way you can get to a circuit is to hover over something that's on the circuit and then hit Tab and it sometimes it takes a couple hits but when I hit tab you can see that the little help button hit tab again says electrical circuits I'm actually hovering over this circuit not the receptacle so now if I click I have selected the cir the little dashed blue arcs and the little blue arrow and over here it says electrical circuits so now I know that I have selected the circuit and up top now I have the option to add an arc or a chamford wire to this now they call it wire it's really conduit or a cable a multi-wire cable in this case but they call it wiring so if I click on that Revit will automatically connect these with arcs now if that's the way you want to show your plan this works great we do a lot of arcs in our commercial work I think it helps to convey what's on what circuit the other thing you can do of course is have no arcs and just put a tag on each receptacle to say what circuit it's on so either way now I must say that Revit doesn't have a built-in circuit tag for the receptacle so you would have to make that but in this case we're going to use arcs and you can modify these arcs I modifying the arcs is kind of a whole trick in itself you can change the center point of that Arc so you can bend it to whatever kind of shape you want and you can actually add more of these points if you right click on it and say insert vertex it will put another vertex now I'm going to say where to put it right there so now I have another grip for a Vertex so I can make this complex if I need to get around something if I'm going around a lot of times outside the house you want to go around corners to show lighting you can bend this to your will now can I can also get rid of a Vertex rightclick and delete a Vertex let's delete this one and now I'm back to a single vertex you can change where this attaches to the receptacle now it's hard to see with these thick lines so often times I will jump up to the top to this thin lines button and if you make it thinner then you select it then the little circle shows up a little better and you can move that's the attachment point you can move it around so if for some reason I was going across this aisle to this other one I could you know move it like move this where I want it to hit on here personally I like an arc to be kind of like that I like it to hit as if it's going to the center where would it intersect the outside of the circle again you'll probably have your own standards you want this to meet you can make it show in the middle if you want I showed it at the edge but a lot of options now there's a plus and minus here this would be for adding conductors inside this cable or conduit now I have this set up in my options to only show wires on the home run the home run back to the panel but you can set this show it shows wires everywhere but even in this home run if I click on it there's a plus and minus I can add additional hot conductors to this it would automatically do that for multiple circuits in one home run but even in my case if I had let's say in a bedroom I had some of these switched and I needed a switched hot and a a non-switched hot I could show multiple Hots so you have the option to Show additional hot wires in there this is the ground symbol you can change it to different symbols if you want we just use the circle so that's the Home Run and even the Home Run you can move this around how you want change the shape of this Arc lots of variety I like to try to point it somewhat in the direction of my panel board that's my preference some places do things differently and there's a lot of variety here so there I have that circuit go back to normal lines now I want to tag this home run to indicate what circuit this is again you can tag each receptical if you have the right tag but we have a built-in tag for this so let's go back up to tag by category and see what the default tag is right click on that it puts all in parenthesis panel-1 maybe that's not the way you want to show it and I'm going to change this panel name just because it I think it gets confusing being called panel so we're going to put it back to P1 that way we know that we're getting the name of our panel do we have options here if you click on that tag and go up to properties you'll find that there's sometimes multiple types types of wire tags so this is a wire tag panel and this is just a wire tag this wire tag is just the circuit now this may be more appropriate for this residential project when we only have one panel so I think that works if you want different kinds of tags I'll point to a video above that I've done on customizing your tags you can have different kinds of tags for the same kind of equipment or in this case for the home run you could have different kinds of tags that you choose from but that's the basics of wiring and so we're going to go through here and just wire this place up I'll do the other kitchen the same I'm not going to go through all this here but let me show you a 240 volt connection let's review this cooktop over here edit the type we set this up for 240 volt two pole connection and we set it up as a 5kw load and we set this up for 5kw load and I think we meant to make this one at 3,000 and we changed it when we were doing the other range so let's make this smaller 3,000 again it would depend on the cut sheet for the cooktop so that's set up now we just need to Power It Up here's the power button powered up we want to go to panel it remember it's the last panel you connected to so that's P1 and there's no other receptacles on this circuit it's only going to have the cooktop so we from here can easily just say Arc that wire one thing I forgot to do is put in all the data here so Escape out of here again if I hover over this receptacle hit Tab and this is going to take a couple tabs before I get my circuit now I'm hitting the circuit see it says electrical circuits 24 now I can click on my electrical circuit and I'm editing this the breaker type is a connection now it could be a a feed through lug things like that but breaker is what we want and then a again I'm going to call this receptacle cooktop so that it's labeled on the panel schedule and it's going to be a 30 amp connection apply that and then I want to move this home run away from this and get this arked and if I need to I can move where this guy hits this is adjustable now the only trick is if this guy was down here you've got got to be careful because this little square is the actual electrical connector point and you don't want to pull a wire off of that because then you lose its connection you lose the Home Run and this wire is just floating in space so you have to be careful that you leave that guy connected to the receptacle connection point but there it put our two Hots in there and our neutral and let's label this we changed this tag after we installed it so it still remembers the default tag now you can change the default tag a few different ways if we go to annotate here's the tag panel so if you go to the tag dropdown right here loaded tags and symbols you can take a look at all of the tags that are loaded and set up as default tags when you tag by category let's go down to the wiring wires wir tag panel was that one that has the panel and the circuit we want to change it to wire tag by default and say okay now we set the default for when we hit tag by category now we get our little circuit tag that we can drag around the other thing you can do is if you have different kinds of tags and you you want to be able to choose between different ones you can just find a tag you like rightclick it create similar and you will create that tag also so a couple different ways to do this and once you've attached the tag then you click on this and move around the tag goes with you so there you can go around decide how many circuits you want now typically in residential we're going above and beyond what is typically shown for a house usually the electricians take a plan like this of just receptacles and they will apply it's a design build type thing where they will apply the circuiting and divide things up but you know in house they would probably have to produce a plan like this showing the circuiting so that's kind of the level of detail we're going to here is we are showing the actual circuiting for the receptacles the loads for these recepticles aren't done on a on a per receptical basis they are done more on a square footage basis but that is the basics of how you circuit this up now let's take a look at the panel schedule that Revit automatically fills in for us and that's another huge benefit to Revit for electrical is that it does our panel schedules for us no more Excel panel schedules so if we go under the analyze tab it's under the analyze tab it's kind of an analysis of loads is the way I think of it that's why it's up here schedules are analysis we go to panel schedules right here click on there and panel schedules are created using in the default templates now there's templates for everything in Revit there's panel schedule templates so it's listing all of our panels we only have one and it's put in check mark yes we want to create a panel schedule for panel P1 say okay and it made it and it brings it up for us so it uses a default panel schedule which looks like this this can be customized in fact what happens is some of these panels are are too wide when I throw them on a a sheet so you can narrow them up and that's a whole another lesson is how to edit panel schedules there's also separate schedules for switchboards and other kinds of equipment like that but we're going to stay with the the basics it's a 12240 single it calls it single phase here Revit gets confusing because it says single face here but as you saw before when we clicked on the panel it showed a two so it depends on where you look you have to understand that it's a single phas three wire system meanss are at 225 and and you know we may end up having just a 200 amp circuit breaker which is the case for residential and what it did is it circuited up our circuits that we connected in numerical order one and then it applied went to two two and four because it's combined next one would be three then it would jump to four it's already filled jump to five that can also be customized in commercial work we like to Circuit 1357 we like to go this way first and then jump over to the other side of the panel again there's ways to set all that up we're going to go with the default for now and the other thing it does is it gives you a load classification at the bottom by load type that we set up and we have these all set up as receptacle now we could change the C cooktop to be more of a a range type connection so that it would show up separately it also applies a demand Factor now right now it's just 100% but commercially if you end up with over 10,000 watts of receptacle it will only take 50% of the rest so that's all done for you as well but anyway this gives us a running total of how many amps we have calculated Comm commercially on this panel and we already have our 30 amp trip set up in our 20 amp we have this name set up that's why I do it when I connect them so that shows how the system is interconnected between loads and panels another thing I'd like to show is a diagram of this electrical system now residential again it's very simple but it's still worth having a little bit of a single line or oneline diagram so how do we do that let us go up to a drafting view now we don't have any drafting views here because we need to make some there's none out of the box in this template so let's go up to view and you will see here there's our plan views here's drafting view drafting view is a view showing details that are not directly associated with the building model they're just like dumb lines just like cat that's what we're going to do for our on line diagram because there's no way in rabit to automatically generate a oneline diagram now I must say that there are third-party applications that you'll find out there that can produce a oneline diagram from your model if you want to go that route and that may be good for you you know there's licensing and all that for those things so if you just want to do your own you can just draw your own they need a name for this drafting view I'm going to call it on line diagram now some people call it single line same thing and it applies just a random scale I like to just go these at 12 in to the foot one: one and there there's my blank drafting view not much to it there's no symbols in Revit for doing single line diagrams like if we go all results even if you go to annotations and go down to electrical you'll find a number of switches a lot of tags conduit size tag conduit fitting size tag uh receptical annotations but you won't find any panel board or switchboard or circuit breaker any kind of symbols that we can really use in a oneline diagram so we just have to draw it ourself you can either draw it like for example if you go up to annotate we're in annotative mode now and go to detail line over here you have a choice of different kinds of line types or line styles that are built into Revit and right now there's not many we have a thin line a wide line an MP hidden a medium line these are all built in medium line seem seems to be okay now you can create your own line Styles but for now we're just going to use again out of the box medium line and then you have a number of tools that you can use to draw these lines and you can just start drawing lines or let's create a box we want to create a on line symbol for our panel you click here and then you start drawing and it's giving you some Dimensions now what size do you want this well if you look at a piece of paper and you know you want a panel to be a certain size on your sheet you don't want it huge we're talking real units here real inches so I like a symbol that's maybe a/ in wide so you have to zoom in to get that small a half in wide and and it's kind of giv us some Dimensions at the bottom and it's in the it's going by 256 of an inch which is pretty fine you can change that around too the further out you go the less precise it gets so there's a/ in and then I want 3/4 down so/ inch wide by 3/4 you can also just draw this click on it and then you can click on here and change the dimension of 3 in that's sometimes easier and let's throw some text in here now this tells you how you can justify the text top and then left Justified we can also go middle up and down a line middle a middle line bottom and we can Center let's go ahead and do top but let's do a center and let's put that here and let's write panel put that right right here here and then we need a name for that panel again we're going to be centered let's call it P1 so there panel P1 that's our panel and then we can draw just I just detail line I just clicked on the line tool which is default I'm still in medium lines and I can go up here and we're going to say that the meter the self-contained residential meter is here so we need to draw another symbol so go to text and let's put an M somewhere here and then we can draw a box around it detail line use our Square use our rectangle tool now if you get too close to a text the text itself will blot out your lines unless you go over here now here's here's the text tool on the right you'll see that there's a few different types we have 3 30 seconds aerial and a/ Quin aerial built in then there's something used for a schedule so we're going 3 30 seconds this like most things can be changed you can create your own type we can go to x edit type duplicate this 33 seconds aerial and we will call this 33 seconds aerial and it applies a two automatically I'm going to call this transparent and we can change the background from open opaque to transparent and say okay there's a bunch of other things here you can do okay now what that does is it makes the background opaque so it doesn't obscure our line work the other thing we can do is make make our box bigger or sometimes the meter will just be shown as a circle and when you're selecting these lines you have to make sure you're not selecting the text you got to get in here and it highlights if you hit hover over line and hit tab now you will select the entire chain it's called of lines you can delete that let's put a circle in say we decided our symbol is a circle so Center it somewhat there draw a circle and there's a minimum size like this is too small minimum size you can draw let's just draw it like that and now this is all pieces so if you want to window it and move the whole thing you can move pieces like that and then we want to draw we can rightclick and do create similar for this line again get it somewhat close and now we want to go out to our Transformer which is we're going to say it's a little pad Mount like a ranch Runner they call Little 12240 pad Mount so we can draw a symbol for a padmount Transformer and so we can do something like let's just say like this is the the the pad and then we will do some lines to make it look like a pad Mount whatever ever symbol you want to use for this some people will use an actual kind of a Transformer symbol that has windings and the core and all that you can draw whatever you want this is simple so that shows a Transformer to a meter to a panel and then we can apply notes to these things we can call this utility Transformer or utility of pad Mount now again this is being left Justified I can change this back to to that this is still Center Justified I can change it to left Justified or actually when I create a new one I can make it also left Justified you can stretch your window to make this fit how you want and then also you click on there up here you can add a leader like we did on the plan this the same as the plan view leader and get down here utility Transformer and you can start labeling on your on line so again there's no symbols built in this gives me an opportunity to for a Shameless plug for a set of on line single line diagram symbols that I'm offering for sale if you don't want to have to make all these you can just buy them for reasonable price and use them so I will just point you to where that is in the description below I'll have a link to the whole oneline diagram pack that's on the MEP guy webs site for sale and as you can see here it includes circuit breakers and fuse switches and Transformers and panels and all the pieces you would need and you just drag those in so let me show you really quick how that would go again if you're interested in not having to make all of your own you can simply go that route so what we do is we would open up the library and it's going to convert it up because they were done in 2020 so that the compatible with 2020 and above open this up and you can see here it's one giant group I also in here have a sample drawings that can be brought in so a variety of complexity even this is kind of like what we're doing now and you can see here these are dashed because they're existing now we're not using existing but this whole setup right here is pretty much what we need but let's go ahead and just bring in the whole thing if you open up the groups at the very bottom on the left you'll get to the symbols and the samples if you click on line symbols right click and say copy to clipboard now if I go back into my oneline diagram and just hit control V paste and it says the following types are already here fill patterns and some materials it's okay now that whole group is put in and all of the symbols associated with that are in here now so if we go up to annotations you will find all of the ER or electric Rob all the on line symbols so for example now I just take on line panel main lug only drag it in there it is it's a label base system where now I can just type this P1 now what about a meter on line meter drag this in there's our meter it's kind of a box and a square and then we need a Transformer on line pad Mount they're alphabetical pad Mount Transformer drag that in it's a little bigger but there it is so now I just have to throw my lines on and we have in just seconds uh completed one line and these are copyable if this was an existing panel click on it over to the right it says up here under Graphics it says existing click on existing and it's dashed automatically for you if I was to bring in that whole group of existing then I would also it would give me an existing line type but again just a little plug for that system if that's something that interests you if you're going to be doing a lot of these diagrams for even something more complicated than like a house that may turn out to be a quick way for you to get up and running on your symbols because because it takes a lot of time frankly it takes a lot of time for you to draw these symbols even if you create these as families if you learn the family editor and all that it can be done so there's a couple a couple ways you can go so we will uh just go with the out of the box and that's our on line diagram start of it we will be sizing these wires and such later as we go but this gives us the basics so back to our first floor not in this video but elsewhere we will get all the rest of this connect connected and the same with the second floor we'll go through and we will just connect all of these to that panel that we have in there and get that all done I highly recommend that you jump in and actually practice this if you're learning Revit get in here like I said before you can download this architectural model directly from Autodesk you can use the built-in Revit families to start showing receptacles bring in that panel like I showed you start connecting it and get familiar with how to connect and another thing is you'll need to get familiar with how to connect how to add recepticles how do you remove a receptacle let's say we want to get rid of this receptacle well if I hover over this and select the circuit like I did I can go up to edit circuit now instead of the default add to Circuit I can do remove from circuit click that button now I will be UNH highlighting these so that just showed that I removed it finish editing now the wire stays here which is tricky and that can mess you up so you want to make sure you manually get rid of the wire but this is no longer circuited to that panel and as you can see I have my power button back again and the load on this panel if we go back to our panel schedules which are over here the load on the panel has changed I don't know if you paid attention but now it's only 540 so that's the basics of circuiting and getting a oneline diagram started I hope this was helpful to you until the next episode [Music] n