A short but very packed one. It was Fourth of July weekend so that meant a three day weekend, and that the office would probably be empty pretty early on Thursday as well. But all jokes aside there was still work to be done and of course for me, more things to model.

My week consisted of working mostly on underground conduit runs. A new challenge and underground is far different from overhead. The pipe is typically bigger for underground. The paths you can model are more flexible than the overhead. You can have bigger bends and not everything has to bend at 90 degrees to get where you want to go. This is because the underground conduit is ran through ducktbanks that are dig before hand and then filled with concrete once the pipe is in place.

Thanks to my more than helpful manager Tim Viau and his underground wizardry. I was able to model some of the underground pretty well. I learned new tools, such as the trim connect tool. A tool that allows me to connect the pipe without having to be exact on lining it up. Revit is able to auto draw the bends and connections using this tool. I also learned how to isolate exactly what I wanted to see using the Hide/Isolate tool in the bottom of the tool bar. This enabled me to focus just on the pipe and get a better picture of exactly what I was doing. Week six was a new experience and one that I learned a lot from. I will post pictures of the software and the new tools below.

This is what it looks like after using the Hide/Isolate tool

The goggles are the the Hide/ Isolate tool on the bottom of the tool bar

This is a picture of the distant after using the trim connect tool to auto make the bends