How to Efficiently Add P-Traps in Revit: A Step-by-Step Guide

So I'm going to reset it again, select, I'm going to go through and do all my first four ones, draw a pipe. I'm going to kind of stay in the same orientation here. Oh, it looks like I missed a P-trap.

That's fine. We can fix that. That one did not like the angle I was at.

90 degrees. There we go. I forgot my P-trap.

That's fine. So what I'm going to do is go over to my Systems, go back to my Pipe Fitting, and then I need to make sure I choose the correct one. Oh, I accidentally detached this.

Let's see if I can get it back into location. Sometimes if you accidentally detach this, it's kind of a weird spot. I think I have found that making this a little smaller and then bringing this back over helps.

And there we go. Then re-maximizing—for whatever reason—it doesn't like to do it when it's right on the edge there. Let's find our P-trap.

Let me find my P-trap. Where is it? There it is. Standard.

There we go. Pick. Ah, perfect.

Select. Right-click. Draw a pipe.

Oh, it didn't like the angle. You just have to make sure that you're very specific with those angles. There we go.

Make sure you get that 90 degrees. Looks like I missed a couple of P-traps. That's unfortunate.

It happens, especially when we're doing as many as we did. So I'm going to go to my Pipe Fitting. I still have my P-trap selected.

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Let's see here. I need to rotate this guy. There we go.

Right-click. Draw a pipe. Boom.

So sometimes working in 3D can really work out well, as long as you have started to align things. You notice that when we did this—hold on, I’ve got to find the right angle. Let’s see.

There we go. You notice that when I did this—man, I missed a couple of P-traps, didn’t I? All right. Let's spin this.

And then it looks like I missed another one over here. It's very simple to add them. There we go.

Draw a pipe. There it is. But I’ve found that sometimes once I’ve aligned everything in Plan View, it makes it very simple to go through and do the drawing in 3D.

And I find that, for myself, to be a bit more efficient. I feel like I can work a little bit faster that way. Oh, I need to reset this.

So select it. Right-click. Draw a pipe.

And if you don’t want to run into any issues with any of the—you know—let’s say you just don’t want to run into any issues with the elevation or anything, you can always escape out. Again, I forgot some P-traps, but you can always escape out. Let's go find one with a P-trap real quickly.

You could select it, right-click, draw a pipe, and then find that 90 degree and the snap. There we go. Let's find my P-trap.

So I'm going to go to Pipe Fitting. I can see a couple. Sometimes being in the 3D view is actually really nice to double-check things.

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So like this—this P-trap—I need to flip it around. Let’s see. Are there any others that are missing? I missed a couple, huh? But turning off that architectural link really helps us start identifying this system and examining it.

So I'm going to go to my P-trap. I think that one was actually in the right orientation, so I'm just going to undo. Okay, we got them all.

Now select, right-click, draw a pipe. 90 degrees. It didn’t tie in.

That’s okay. We’ll just redo it. If it doesn’t tie in the right way the first time, that’s okay.

Just redo it and keep working on it. You won’t break the system. You won’t break the software.

I will say though, when you are doing some more advanced tasks, I highly recommend saving often. It can save you when Revit decides to say, “I don’t want to do this, ” for whatever reason. And if you ever feel like you need to reset the command, just reset the command.

Now it's kind of doing something weird. There we go. Come here.

There we go. Come here. There we go.

And awesome. Let's go ahead, pause the video here, and we'll see you in the next one.