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Tyler Grant/4 min read

Creating Slope Pipes in Revit: Best Practices and Tips

Pipe Slope Tips

Set slope on the pipe type defaults so all sanitary pipes auto-slope when drawn. Standard slopes: 1/4″ per foot for pipes ≤ 2.5″, 1/8″ per foot for ≥ 3″. Verify invert elevations at fixture connections to avoid backflow issues.

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This Revit tutorial walks through creating slope pipes in revit, covering essential tools and techniques for your projects.

Now what we can go ahead and do is do the same thing for the other side. So I'm going to go pipe, inherit elevation, slope up, three-inch diameter, at a quarter-inch per foot. There we go.

Make sure you're sticking to a 45-degree increment. So in that instance, it's 135 degrees. And then you just kind of work your way around.

Remember, always select that inherit elevation, work my way back up there, 30 feet. There are ways that I could go ahead and like create groups or copies of these. I'm not a huge fan necessarily of doing that with sloped piping because of how sloped piping works and how specific it very, very much is.

So, you know, similar to what we did, like with the hot and cold water, where we created our drops and everything, you know, those were all staying at the same elevation. When you're changing the elevation with like the sloped piping and this inherit elevation tool, I haven't found that it really is a time saver or the most efficient way to create these pipes just because of the fact that I'm having to go back and redo a lot of work and then the slope gets messed up and I got to fix it. And that just becomes more of a headache.

So it's, I know it seems like it's a tedious process to do this, but I have found that this is probably the fastest and most efficient way to make sure that your pipe slope and everything is correct right off the bat. So pipe, inherit elevation, slope up three inches. There we go.

I'm going to drag up over here. I'm getting the snaps. I'm not exactly sure what's deciding when I get snaps and when I don't.

Um, I'm just kind of letting it roll and do its thing. The other thing is, when I draw that little portion off to the side, if I go like here, it's not giving me the snaps again.

When I draw that little portion, when I go up to my 30 feet, I'm overexaggerating it cause I know I'm going to delete it, but I don't want to underestimate or make it super short because then the pipe may not draw because the fittings don't fit or for whatever reason. So that's another reason to kind of overexaggerate that inherit elevation. Boom.

This one's actually giving me the snaps again. I'm not sure why Revit is like, "Oh, I'll give you snaps here, but I won't give you snaps there." Again, it's one of those things.

There's that. And we got two more on this pipe, inherit elevation. Remember to click on that.

If you don't remember to click on that, it's not going to work properly. 30 feet. 30 feet.

There we go. And then here and inherit elevation. And if you want like a really short 45-degree run, you could always do something like that to where you're just closer to the fixture.

30 feet. There we go. And there we go.

Let's take a look at it in our 3D. So I'm going to go to my 3D view. We can go ahead and turn off our section box and you can see we have some vertical risers.

I'm going to come back into here and delete the top of that 30-foot pipe. So it does seem kind of time-consuming. And I will say that it is to make sure that your pipe slope and everything stays correct.

There are ways that, you know, you could potentially draw one, but then to always get this at the right elevation, you still have to go on a pipe-by-pipe basis. So it's still kind of a pain, but there we go. There's a good stopping point for this video.

When we come back, we'll continue with our system. See you then.