March 26, 2026 (Updated April 19, 2026)Tyler Grant/3 min read

Cleaning Up Piping and Aligning Systems in Revit MEP

Pipe Cleanup Checklist

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Run Interference Check

Collaborate → Interference Check finds clashes before submittal.

Use 'Justify' Tools

Align pipes to top, bottom, or center for clean, straight runs.

Add Fittings Manually Where Needed

Auto-routing sometimes misses elbows — verify and add.

Check Slope Continuity

Sanitary and condensate runs must maintain slope across the entire length.

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This Revit tutorial walks through cleaning up piping and aligning systems in revit mep, covering essential tools and techniques for your projects.

Welcome back to the CAD Teacher VDCI video course content for the BIM 321 course Introduction to Revit MEP. In the previous video, we actually went ahead and got our waste system completely dialed in, looking great. But there are a couple of things for the piping that I want to go ahead and clean up.

Really, kind of the locations of these different pipes—I want to make sure that they're all running at the same location. So, what I want to go ahead and do is I'm going to go back to my second floor plumbing plan. I'm going to close hidden windows.

And, I'm going to go ahead and jump into my section, and then do my WT for my window tile. I want to go ahead. I don't want to align the centerline of these; I want to align the bottom edge of these. So, I'm going to go ahead and take my section, rotate 90 degrees. There we are.

And, as you can see, those aren't completely aligned. I need to just go ahead and move my section forward just a little. I'm going to go AL for align, pick here, tab, pick there.

So, now those are aligned. The other thing I want to do is I want to make sure that my sinks are aligned with one another. So, I'm going to go rotate here, 90 degrees, pull back.

I'm going to go ahead and expand my section so I can see both pipes. And, we got to kind of get in close, but it shouldn't be too bad. Tab, align, align, okay, that looks fine.

I'm going to go align here, and align here. There we go. I'm going to go ahead and check my first floor real quick. I think everything should be okay down there.

We might need to align our sinks quickly. So, tab, align, tab, align, tab, there we go, tab, align. Perfect. Now both of those are connected and in the exact same locations.

So, the next step that we're going to go ahead and start working on will be our electrical. I want to go ahead now and actually let's go back to our 3D view. I want to go ahead and turn back on my link by going VV, turn on my Revit link again, apply, and click OK.

So, we see the building there. That was just a short video going through and cleaning up. Feel free to take a look at your plumbing system.

If you feel you need to adjust or change anything, by all means, go ahead and do so. And, I'll see you in the next series of videos. See you next time.