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How does Revit MEP calculate circuit wire lengths?

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sbrisk | 3 years, 3 months ago
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It takes the x coordinate and the y coordinate, and the z coordinate, and adds the distance between the panel and the device, traveling only in those directions. It does not account for going around things, or traveling a particular path. But it does not calculate "as-the-crow-flys", but rather calculates the shortest distance in x and y and z directions.

http://revitmep.blogspot.com

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wizeman | 3 years, 3 months ago Report

Thanks for searching, but I had already found those and basically they are just sales brochures (and I already use the software)

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lookacleverusername | 3 years, 3 months ago
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Disclaimer:

Don't know much about this product but I am pretty good at grok'ing tech manuals.

It appears that wire length is totaled based on the wires that you have connected to a circuit as a total of the wiring runs you have created and connected and/or the length of the wire you have entered for each of those wires if they were manually created. It is essentially summing what you have already created.

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http://revit.downloads.autodesk.com/download/RME2009/Documents/ENU/HelpMEPENU.pdf

pages 377, 392-3, 401, 405

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wizeman | 3 years, 3 months ago Report

Thanks, the help manual still does not tell me how Revit calculates the length though (ie.: does it do it in a straight line, through the walls, or using a standard estimation function?).

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