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Adding air terminals

Adding air terminals - Revit MEP Tutorial

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Adding air terminals

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- [Instructor] Adding air terminals is very similar to adding a light, with one exception. We host lights to ceilings. Well, why not? If the architect moves a ceiling, our light moves with it. No problem. An air terminal would do the same thing, but this is actually not the best workflow. The problem is the light has nothing physically hooked to it. If it moves up a foot or two, no problem. An air terminal, however, has a duct hooked to it. If the air terminal moves up to the point where Revit can't make the duct connection, you'll get errors all over the place. So let's do this. Open Mechanical Project One. I'm going to zoom into this area here. Let's make sure, however, we're in ceiling plan level one. Zoom into this area here. Go to the systems tab. Click air terminal. I want a supply diffuser, so let's click the drop-down here and see what we've got. Scroll up. All we have is 24 24 Face 12 by 12 connection. I don't really like that one, so let's click on load family. I'm going to…

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