COES HDPE Revit Families

I noticed recently that a local Australian company is charging for COES HDPE pipework fitting families – do not buy them.

You can download them for free either via COES themselves or ProductSpec. Link to the COES site and preview of the families below.

COES – Download Revit Pipework Families

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5 thoughts on “COES HDPE Revit Families

  1. avatar Ian Smit says:

    Very Nice!

    Thank you

  2. avatar tuan says:

    do you have ppr family? can you shared them with me, I’m looking for them for a long time. thanks.

  3. avatar Ryan Lenihan says:

    Hi Tuan,
      
    You can get Aquatherm PPR fittings in a few places
      
    Revit 2013https://www.mepcontent.eu/Product/Detail/16659/aquatherm%2bppr?type=article_&localizationId=2&ref=mepcontent#.VKtD-SuUfhl
      
    Revit 2014http://www.productspec.net/products/201/aquatherm-nz/aquatherm-green-pipe-system-fusiotherm-ppr.aspx
      
    If you don’t need the 2013 files, the 2014 files are much nicer and laid out neatly in an RVT file. Only problem I have with the 2014 files is that there are individual 45 and 90 degree families which is great for quantities, but it’s painful to model with. This can be fixed up though so that the family is flexible which allows for more seamless modelling.
      
    Another alternative is to take a copy of the Autodesk generic pipe fittings and modify them and their associated lookup tables to dimension in accordance with your PPR manufacturer.

  4. avatar tuan says:

    I downloaded Aquatherm PPR fittings ver 2014, but there weren’t lookup tables for each fittings so when I load these ones in to my project, I can’t draw any pipes as my mind. Can you help me solve this problem? Thanks for reading.

  5. avatar Ryan Lenihan says:

    Hi Tuan,
      
    Revit 2014 does not require lookup tables in the same way that you would be used to from the 2013 and previous versions of Revit. In 2014, the lookup tables are embedded into the family themselves.
      
    To check this, open up the family and then go to the family types dialogue. You can see highlighted in yellow in the image that the reference lookup table is defined, and on the left hand side of the window you have a manage lookup tables button. The manage lookup tables dialogue lets you import and export lookup table files.
      

      
    As for not being able to draw pipework with the fittings, you need to configure pipe routing preferences within your Revit template or model. In the project browser, find the pipes section, find the pipe type you want to modify (or create a new pipe type) and then right click and select type properties
      

      
    That will open the type properties for the pipe. Open the routing preferences dialogue (1) and then configure your pipe by changing the sections that I have highlighted in yellow.
      

      
    The top line named ‘Pipe Segment’ is where you choose the material. These are the materials defined in the MEP settings in Revit. You need to select a minimum and maximum size for this material. This is good for systems like fire services where pipework smaller than 50mm would use galvanised pipe with threaded fittings and pipework 65mm and larger would use galvanised pipe with roll groove couplings (i.e. victaulic)
      
    Each of the remaining lines you simply need to choose which family is used for each elbow, junction, transition, union, flange and cap. Again you can choose different families for different size ranges.
      
    I hope that helps.

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