March 26, 2026 (Updated April 19, 2026)Derek Cutsinger/2 min read

Cleaning Up Level 2 Piping Plan for Mechanical and Ductwork Visibility

CD Set Quality Checklist

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Coordinate disciplines

Architectural, structural, MEP must align — clash detection helps.

Check sheet index

Every callout reference exists on the referenced sheet.

Specify everything

Don't leave decisions to the contractor — name products, finishes, sizes.

Verify code compliance

Egress, accessibility, energy — before permit submittal.

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This tutorial walks through cleaning up level 2 piping plan for mechanical and ductwork visibility, covering essential tools and techniques for your projects.

Let's go ahead and open our Level 2 piping plan and continue with the same process. Before we do that, we don't want to show any of this mechanical piping here, so let's open our Visibility Graphics by typing VV. Then go to Model Categories and look for any Mechanical and Ductwork elements.

Let's turn off Duct Accessories, Duct Fittings, Duct Insulation, Duct Linings, Mechanical Equipment, Flex Ducts, Flex Pipe, any MEP equipment, and Air Terminals. There we go. We don't have anything on Level 1, so that's fine.

If we had multiple projects, we could go to our View Template and set up a template to hide those elements, but since we only have two levels, it's fine to just hide them in this case. So let's go back to Annotate > Tag by Category, and let's continue to tag this pipe here. I'm going to move this section of main pipe down, and I'll tag my main here as well.

Try to find a spot that doesn't block anything else, cleaning up as I go. Okay, now the piping that we're seeing here and here is actually on the Level 1 system, but because of our view range, we're also seeing it here.

So let's go ahead and hide that in the library area, and in the kitchen/cafeteria area, let's hide that section as well, including the main. Okay. Take a quick look. All right, when we continue, we'll add some annotations to our piping plans.