In the following images you can check the schedules before and after filling the data. Of course, to automatically populate this information, you can use Dynamo to improve the workflow. It is very important to notice that you MUST fill the same values to all elements that compose a Conduit Run to have the information in the schedule.
If, in the schedules you are using Description as main information, you can copy the value from Description parameter to Comments parameter in the Conduit segments and fittings and use this parameter as description for the Conduit Runs. Between Conduit Runs and Conduit Fittings, they only share Comments.
Conduit Runs have a limited number of standard parameters and most of them are the same from the Conduit segments, like Family name, Type name, Inside Diameter, Outside Diameter, Diameter (Trade Size) and Comments. The other thing that I like and its very important in my point of view, is to have control over the minimum bend radius of the conduit.Īnother important point to be aware of when you create the conduit run schedule, is to know which information or parameter values are connected between them and conduit segments and fittings that are part of each conduit run segment. One thing that I particularly like, is that this way, routing is much simpler and faster than using flex pipes for example, especially in 3D views. To make this task easier, a proper naming strategy may make the filtering process much simpler. On the other hand, it will be necessary to exclude the conduit straights and fittings from their schedules to avoid double counting them. The conduits routing created with this category will generate a related element, which is a Conduit Run, which aggregates the conduits segments and the elbow conduit fittings that are connected together, this element will have a length value that corresponds to the sum of the length of the straight segments and the elbow's arc lengths, making it easier to quantify the flexible conduits, otherwise, it would be necessary not only to merge information from two schedules, conduits and conduit fittings, but also generate the bends arc lengths values for the sum, this feature could be achieved by editing the bend families, but it is not necessary. Elbows, tees, crosses, transitions and unions maybe necessary to create the conduits. To create flexible conduits, you should use Conduits without fittings, which, despite its name, is composed by conduit straight segments and conduit fittings, which you need to setup in the type properties routing preferences.
As anything in life, there are positive and negative aspects because of it. Different from ducts and pipes, there is no flex conduits in Revit.
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