In this exercise, you add chillers and pumps to the rooftop plan.
Specify the tutorial project and open the dataset drawing
1 On the Workspaces toolbar, verify that Piping is the current workspace.
When the Piping workspace is active, the Piping menu is available from the menu bar, and the Piping tool palettes group is opened.
2 Open the Project Browser by clicking File menu ➤ Project Browser.
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If you are prompted to repath, click Yes.
3 In the Project Browser, double-click Research Laboratory to specify it as the current project.
If the Piping tutorial is not displayed, browse to My
Documents\Autodesk\My Projects. The Windows default location for My Documents is C:\Documents and Settings\<user
name>\My Documents. If the Research Laboratory project is not in this location, it might not have been extracted. See Extracting the Project Datasets on page 1.
4 Click Close.
5 In the Project Navigator, click the Constructs tab.
6 Expand Piping ➤ Lesson 2, and double-click Piping_L02_E01 to open it.
7 Click Zoom Extents . Set up the drawing
8 First, you specify object snap settings to aid you in placing equipment on the floor plan geometry. On the application status bar, select Object Snap to turn it on, if necessary.
9 Right-click Object Snap , and click Settings.
10 In the Drafting Settings dialog, select Endpoint and Midpoint.
11 Click OK.
12 Next, you change display configurations. On the application status bar, click MEP Design, and select MEP Basic 2-Line from the list.
MEP Basic 2-Line is a good display configuration to use for fast layout. No hidden lines are used, so drawing performance is enhanced.
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Add a chiller
13 Pan and zoom to the area with the 2 equipment pads.
TIP A quick way to navigate a drawing is to use the scroll wheel on the mouse. Turn the wheel to zoom in or out, hold down the wheel and drag to pan, or double-click the wheel to zoom extents. You can use these features even if a command is active.
14 On the Equipment tool palette, click the Centrifugal Chiller tool.
15 In the Add Multi-view Part dialog, the catalog in the Part tab opens to Mechanical ➤ Chillers ➤ Centrifugal Chiller.
16 The centrifugal chillers in this location start at 600-670 KW. To find the smaller chillers, scroll to Refrigeration Equipment, expand it, and select Centrifugal Chillers.
17 For Part Size Name, specify 595 Nominal kW Centrifugal Chiller from the drop-down list.
TIP To minimize dialogs while keeping them active, click the pushpin icon in the upper-right corner of the dialog. When you move the cursor off the dialog, it minimizes so that just the title bar is visible.
To restore the dialog, move the cursor over the title bar.
NOTE If you are running Windows Vista, the pushpin icon is not available.
18 In the drawing, move the cursor to detect a snap point on the pad as shown, and click to insert the chiller.
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19 Use the compass to rotate the chiller as shown, and click.
20 Press Enter to end the command.
Center the chiller on the pad
21 Select the chiller, right-click, and click AEC Modify Tools ➤ Center.
22 Note the command line prompts. Press Enter so that you can specify 2 points for the line on which to center the chiller.
23 Select the lower-right corner of the pad for the first point, as shown.
24 Select the lower-left corner for the second point to center the chiller on the pad horizontally.
25 Select the chiller, right-click, and click AEC Modify Tools ➤ Center.
26 Press Enter so that you can specify 2 points for the line on which to center the chiller.
27 Select the upper-right pad corner for the first point, and select the lower-right corner for the second.
The chiller is centered on the pad.
28 The chiller was placed with an elevation of 0, and the pad height is 100 mm. Select the chiller, and on the Properties palette, click the Design tab.
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29 Under Basic ➤ Location, for Elevation, enter 100 mm.
Copy the chiller to the other pad
30 With the chiller still selected, right-click, and click Basic Modify Tools ➤ Copy.
31 To specify the base point for copying, click the upper-right pad corner as shown.
32 Click the same corner on the lower pad.
33 Press Enter to end the command.
Add a pump
34 Pan and zoom to the 4 pump pads.
35 On the Equipment tool palette, click the Base Mounted Pump tool.
36 In the Add Multi-view Part dialog:
■ For Part Size Name, select the 200x200 mm Base Mounted Pump.
■ For Elevation, enter 100 mm.
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37 In the drawing, click on the endpoint snap on the upper-right corner of the left pad.
38 Use the compass to rotate the pump as shown, and click.
39 Press Enter to end the command.
Center the pump on the pad
40 Select the pump, right-click, and click AEC Modify Tools ➤ Center.
41 Press Enter to specify 2 points for the line on which to center the pump.
42 Specify the endpoints for the long edge of the pad as shown.
43 Repeat the previous steps to center the pump along the short edge of the pad.
Copy the pump to the other pads
44 Select the pump, right-click, and click Basic Modify Tools ➤ Copy.
45 To specify the base point, click the lower-right pad corner as shown.
46 Click the same corner on the other 3 pads.
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47 Press Enter.
48 On the File menu, click Close, and click No when prompted to save the drawing.
In this exercise, you learned how to add equipment and place it accurately on the xref. Next, you draw pipe to connect the chillers to the pumps.