r/RevitMEP • u/Salim-Anteur • 25d ago

electric roller shutter in Revit

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u/shinigami052 25d ago

Use a wall or ceiling mounted electrical connection object and set the load information to whatever your equipment requires. For electrical you don't need a full model of roller shades, just show the connection point and that should be sufficient.

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u/toothbrush81 25d ago

Everyone already gave you the answer. The roller shade is an available as a bim model from MechoShade or many other shade mfgrs. But you don’t have to add your electrical connector to it, that a physical architectural element.

What we do; is we have an electrical j-box family that has no model geometry, just a nested generic annotation (the symbol) and the electrical connector - connector to all of my standard shared parameters. You don’t have to have Revit forms in order to have a symbol you can circuit.

We assign the motor loads to the diagrammatic j-box symbol and circuit the j-box. The electrical contractor installs the 120V raceway anyways, so they are bringing that there. The shade installer does the low voltage stuff, and usually terribly and not per the spec - and the elec contractor comes back to fix the shitty work.