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Looking at mechanical settings

Looking at mechanical settings - Revit MEP Tutorial

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Looking at mechanical settings

- Let's take a look at some of our mechanical settings, shall we? Let's open up workflow seven. Let's go to the systems tab. Notice that we have HVAC settings, P&ID, we'll get into that later, and mechanical. Click on mechanical settings. Notice that if we had clicked on HVAC it would've just made that current. Let's just start with the top: hidden line. When an item is below another item, like we saw with our duct work, we can show these at .5 millimeter inside/outside gap single line. That's about right, I think that looks good. We click right on the main duct settings. I like to use all of these defaults, really. Round duct size I like the diameter. These are all good. Air density, we can change these units. For angles, we use any angle, I'd rather not constrain ourselves. Our conversions, duct type, rectangular duct. We can change our different duct types and set the middle elevation as a default. Rectangular, these are the sizes in rectangular. We can add or delete. Oval, round…

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