Hey there Bryant! Appreciate your feedback. Interesting topic you bring up - wire size in Revit. I plan to do a full video about how Revit handles wire sizing (spoiler - it's not quite perfect!). But basically, wire size is first selected by the size of breaker you select, and then it gets adjusted by the voltage drop in relation to the "maximum voltage drop" thresholds that can be tweaked in the electrical options. So TLDR (short answer) - YOU cannot directly select the wire sizes! If you want larger wire, you must use a larger breaker (or fake it by making the length longer, load higher, or even voltage drop threshold lower). So as you can see, not really per industry practice. Hope this helps!
@ thanks for the feedback. I will definitely look for that video when you post it. I really tried to find a way to get it to work but haven’t been successful yet, so I’m using our excel schedule for now. Your video on panel schedules helped me create a good template I’m hoping to use in later projects, but only when I’m able to fix the wire size problem. Thanks again.
So it sounds like you would like to indicate wire size within your panel schedule. You can add a column to your panel for Wire Size, and then just manually enter a Text for the size (i.e. #12), and thus not rely on Revit's wire sizing system. Would eliminate the need for those Excel schedules!
@@ElectricRob Yes. We usually show the # of wires, wire size and conduit size. I did try the text as you suggest. However something I just remembered now as you mentioned this. The bottom of the schedule that shows the total connected loads. Unfortunately, our mechanical engineers are only using CAD, so I can’t connect any of their loads to the schedule which means those loads won’t be accurate. I tried to put text in there but there was no option for text. That’s probably a whole other problem.
Ahh I see! So it sounds like you model and connect things like receptacles, lighting, etc. that you actually design, but not the mechanical equipment. You can easily (and this is how we do it) put a mechanical equipment connection into your model that contains all of the electrical information (that you get from their CAD plans, schedules, and even cut sheets) so that you can circuit those to your panel as well, and all of your loads will end up on the schedule, and classified by load (and associated demand factor). Even when we have a linked-in mechanical model, we add our own "connection" with the data that we control, for circuiting to our system. Hope this helps!
hello I have been following you for a while and I have learned a lot. thank you for the videos do you need someone to assist you in your projects? I am perfectly proficient in revit and I would like to work with you, I am also proficient in autoCad, Dialux... you can give me a test currently I am in Beijing
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Hey Rob. Thank you for making great Revit videos like this. Is there a way to change wire size on the panel schedule?
Hey there Bryant! Appreciate your feedback. Interesting topic you bring up - wire size in Revit. I plan to do a full video about how Revit handles wire sizing (spoiler - it's not quite perfect!). But basically, wire size is first selected by the size of breaker you select, and then it gets adjusted by the voltage drop in relation to the "maximum voltage drop" thresholds that can be tweaked in the electrical options. So TLDR (short answer) - YOU cannot directly select the wire sizes! If you want larger wire, you must use a larger breaker (or fake it by making the length longer, load higher, or even voltage drop threshold lower). So as you can see, not really per industry practice. Hope this helps!
@ thanks for the feedback. I will definitely look for that video when you post it. I really tried to find a way to get it to work but haven’t been successful yet, so I’m using our excel schedule for now. Your video on panel schedules helped me create a good template I’m hoping to use in later projects, but only when I’m able to fix the wire size problem. Thanks again.
So it sounds like you would like to indicate wire size within your panel schedule. You can add a column to your panel for Wire Size, and then just manually enter a Text for the size (i.e. #12), and thus not rely on Revit's wire sizing system. Would eliminate the need for those Excel schedules!
@@ElectricRob Yes. We usually show the # of wires, wire size and conduit size. I did try the text as you suggest. However something I just remembered now as you mentioned this. The bottom of the schedule that shows the total connected loads. Unfortunately, our mechanical engineers are only using CAD, so I can’t connect any of their loads to the schedule which means those loads won’t be accurate. I tried to put text in there but there was no option for text. That’s probably a whole other problem.
Ahh I see! So it sounds like you model and connect things like receptacles, lighting, etc. that you actually design, but not the mechanical equipment. You can easily (and this is how we do it) put a mechanical equipment connection into your model that contains all of the electrical information (that you get from their CAD plans, schedules, and even cut sheets) so that you can circuit those to your panel as well, and all of your loads will end up on the schedule, and classified by load (and associated demand factor). Even when we have a linked-in mechanical model, we add our own "connection" with the data that we control, for circuiting to our system. Hope this helps!
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I have been following you for a while and I have learned a lot. thank you for the videos
do you need someone to assist you in your projects? I am perfectly proficient in revit and I would like to work with you, I am also proficient in autoCad, Dialux...
you can give me a test
currently I am in Beijing
Thanks for your support!