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Creating circuit filters

Creating circuit filters

From the course: BIM Tools

Creating circuit filters

- Today I'd like to look at filters. One of my favorites is seeing which receptacles are actually on a circuit or not. So what we're going to do is we're going to identify them as being red if they're not on a circuit. That way we know they need to be circuited. To get started under projects, let's go new. For the template file, let's click browse. Let's grab electrical default. Then let's hit open. Let's hit okay. Under floor plans, let's go to one, power floor plan. Now let's draw some walls in, so click the wall button. On the draw panel, click the rectangle button. Perfect, hit escape a few times. Now let's go to the systems tab. On the electrical panel let's grab some electrical equipment. We'll grab lighting and appliance panel board. We'll grab a 225 amp one. I'm going to stick it in the wall here and hit escape a few times. Let's select it and make sure it's on a distribution system. It is. Now let's drop in some receptacles. Let's go to electrical again. Let's click on…

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