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Adding air terminals

Adding air terminals - Revit MEP Tutorial

From the course: Revit 2018: Essential Training for MEP (Imperial)

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Adding air terminals

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- [Voiceover] Adding an air terminal is very similar to adding a light, with one exception. We host lights to ceilings, well why not? If the archetype moves the ceiling, our light moves with it, no problem. An air terminal will do the same thing, this is actually not the best workflow. The problem is, a 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. We're gonna add an air terminal, but then I'll establish what the ceiling height is before we place the terminal. Then we'll change the CFM that the terminal is responsible for. To get going, let's go to our HVAC, Ceiling Plans, 1 - Ceiling Mech. Let's zoom in on this area right here. Like I just said, we're gonna put in an air terminal, but we don't know what that ceiling height is. If we go to the Annotate tab…

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