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Lesson Summary: LRF-ELEC-01-03 – Cable Tray in Revit
🎯 Lesson Focus:
This lesson walks through how to start a project and properly set up for Electrical Cable Tray design in Revit 2025. It focuses on template selection, component availability, and basic setup steps.
🧠 What You’ll Learn:
✅ 1. Start With the Right Template
Opens a new project and stresses using the correct MEP template.
Warns that architectural templates may be missing cable tray content like fittings and families.
⚙️ 2. Setting Project Defaults
Navigates to MEP Settings to configure angle defaults and other key setup items.
Adjusts the Cable Tray Settings to ensure automatic behavior works correctly later.
📏 3. Adding Cable Tray
Demonstrates how to place straight cable tray runs in a floor plan view.
Shows the properties palette where tray size, system type, and elevation are set.
Highlights modifying elevation and routing behavior.
🔧 4. Cable Tray Fittings
When drawing trays that intersect or change direction, Revit will auto-generate fittings (elbows, tees, crosses) based on the project settings.
Emphasizes the importance of loading the correct fitting families early.
🧩 Bottom Line:
Don’t start designing cable tray until your template, settings, and content are correct. This lesson sets the foundation for clean, automated routing with proper fittings in Revit Electrical.
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