Loading electrical equipment into families

Question 1

How do you load electrical equipment into a project?
(should be three steps)

Answer 1

switch to the insert ribbon and in the load from library panel click Load Family

click load family

go into the folder that contains the specific family you want to insert an click enter

Question 2

what is difference between surface mounted and recess mounted?

Answer 2

A surface mounted element is able to be placed on a wall or some surface, a recess mounted device is required to be placed in a wall or surface.

Question 3

you can see the families loaded into you project if you click ?

Answer 3

type selector

Question 4

To place a panel on a wall what should be selected in the modify ribbon

Answer 4

Place on vertical face

Question 5

Can an a piece of equipment from a face based family be placed in the middle of the room without a surface selected

Answer 5

no

Question 6

When you select a panel board their will be many options in the properties palette. what will elevation from level do ?

Answer 6

It will adjust the height of the panel board

Question 7

How does the offset from host parameter in the parameters pallete affect the chosen equipment?

Answer 7

a link will be placed between the equipment and the place the equipment is placed on which will act as the host. You can use the host parameter to input the distance from the host you want your object to be placed at.

Question 8

Can a piece of equipment that is not in a host family have a host parameter?

Answer 8

yes, it can be placed in a host it does not have to be

Question 9

What is the difference between equipment in host families and equipment in non-host families ?

Answer 9

equipment in host families need to be hosted on the plans while equipment in non-host families can still be hosted but are able to be placed in the plans even if not hosted

Question 10

When you have selected a piece of equipment and are about to place it on the plans, what happens to the the selected equipment if you press the space bar?

Answer 10

The equipment will rotate 90 degrees

Question 11

When you have selected a piece of equipment and are about to place it on the plans, what happens to the the selected equipment if you press the space bar on a wall in the project?

Answer 11

The equipment will become parallel to the wall you clicked space bar on

Question 12

How do you place electrical equipment in revit?

Answer 12

Go to systems under electrical press electrical equipment, the options should be on the left

Question 13

When selectin families to load into Revit, what key allows you to select multiple families

Answer 13

the shift key or the control key