From the course: Revit 2020: Essential Training for MEP (Imperial)

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Looking at mechanical settings

Looking at mechanical settings - Revit MEP Tutorial

From the course: Revit 2020: Essential Training for MEP (Imperial)

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Looking at mechanical settings

- [Instructor] There are many settings in Revit. We can never really go through all of 'em, but let's go through the important ones and locate where all the settings are at. Some settings such as symbology and scale are important to know, especially if you're working at a picky firm. Jump into Revit Workflow-10. On the Systems tab, you will see these little arrows. These all basically go to the same spot, but let's go ahead and click on Mechanical Settings right here. Let's just start at the top. Hidden Line, line style is MEP Hidden. You can hit the drop-down. There's a bunch of 'em in there. So MEP Hidden is, I guess, appropriate. Small gaps, that's good, 1/64 of an inch, that works. We definitely want to draw MEP Hidden lines. So in 3D, if something's overlapping something, yeah, we should show it hid. Duct settings, annotation scale, all these details are good except for I don't want an 1/8, I want 3/32 of an inch for duct fitting annotation size. Air density, that's fine…

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