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I am finding the component libraries a bit sparse in the building services technical components as there are just two 2D components for soil and rainwater stacks. As will as no 3D drawing components for power sockets and light switches. This causes quite a few problems with designs for disabled persons adaptations to bathrooms, kitchens and other areas. As you can easily show plumbing and electrical fittings on plan. But when it comes to large scale sections it is rather difficult to indicate to the contractor the position and height of light switches, power sockets and other electrical fittings. Which is rather important when you are designing a building for use by a disabled person using a wheelchair who has a limited reach.
This also produces a similar situation with the soil stacks for foul drainage from sanitary appliances. That without the section drainage details you cannot precisely plan a bathroom, as you cannot fix the intersection point of the toilet waste where it connects the stack in comparison to the other sanitary appliance’s waste pipe connection. I have yet to discover any library components that relate to below ground drainage in 2D and 3D modes. This could also cause problems as it very difficult to design drainage layouts without a section 40 drawing down the run of the drainage pipe showing all the invert levels of each and every manhole, the side access branches, drop manholes and tumbler bays.
In fact I would like to be able to use 2D and 3D drawing components for the following elements:
 Carpentry carcass - Trussed rafters, stair construction (strings, risers, treads, wedges, etc), floor and ceiling joists (tusk tenon joints, joist hangers, crocodile teeth bolt connectors, birds mouth joint to rafter wallplate joist configuration, etc.), springs (fixings to window and door frames), door linings, stops, architrave, door and gate hinges, locks (mortice, latch, nightlatch, traditional and euro-profile, barrel bolts, expanding bolts, ragbolts, etc.
 Brickwork carcass – brickwork bonds english and flemish one brick thick walls and 11/2 brick thick walls (flemish and english garden wall bonds) stretcher bonds, Bonding detail using king a and queen closers, snap headers, bull nose ariss brickwork, coping bricks and other coping details.
 Plasterboard dry lining – showing different thickness’ of plasterboard and also combined with different thermal insulation materials, with plaster dab or batten fixings to masonry walls.
 Use of acoustic insulation materials to floors, ceilings, walls, doors and windows.
 Plumbing – service pipe runs to be able to draw full axonometric pipe runs of central heating, drainage, hot and cold water services.
 Electrical cable runs and trays.
 Slate and tile roof cladding capable of being adjustable to represent the different tile sizes and types of tile.
 Flat roof construction of warm and cold decks using a variety of different materials for insulation, waterproof membranes, and fabric structural elements.
 Foundations – different types of foundations ( traditional strip, reinforced concrete raft, deep strip, pads, pile caps, ring beams, short and long bored piles, etc.
 Public utility services – overground and under ground (TV, telecom, power and street lighting cables, gas, water and sewage pipes, etc).
 Drainage – vent stacks, puff pipes (early vented traps), soil stacks (in elevation and section), waste branches, bottle traps, anti-syphonage traps, P and S traps, roof collars, birdcages, grevas anti-flood valves, interceptors, fresh air inlets,
Obviously this list is by no means exhaustive and could be added to by other components of the building industry.
Such components will make it easier to use Rivet 8 for full plan applications to the local authority building control and also showing the contractor what is required with full working drawings of a particular project.
Please help.
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We show our electrical symbols all the time in section and elevation. The stock ones in the Revit library are what we started with and added our own 2D symbology. Same with sinks etc., just a matter of finding and adopting Revit stock or from this site. I agree it could be better with regards to content, but it can be overcome with a little creative digging and modification.
As for plumbing, Revit Building 8.0 is for architecture. You can model things like risers if you want, but they are not smart objects (yet). Rumor is that a MEP version of Revit will be released later this year.
Tom
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