Fittings doing no slope or back slope at 1/16" per ft

[Tye Austin]

I have a project where there has been a special design allowance to run these mains at 1/16" per ft.  but when I cut in a fitting or snap on a fitting, the branch will not do slope or will show it grading down.  Maybe there is slope settings on the fittings in the database or something?  I've never had this problem but also never needed to grade at 1/16" per ft either...

[Tye Austin]

I'm trying all kinds of stuff.  still no luck.  really hoping someone has run into this at some point and knows what it is or if it's a database setting or something...

[PipeFitter72]

will it slope at other slopes , like 1/8" or does it not slope at all?

[PipeFitter72]

If your in Revit, you may need to go to Manage<<<Mechanical settings and add in the 1/16 slope

[Tye Austin]

will it slope at other slopes , like 1/8" or does it not slope at all?

Yes.  It works fine at 1/8" and at 1/4".  Just starts acting crazy at 1/16"

[Tye Austin]

If your in Revit, you may need to go to Manage<<<Mechanical settings and add in the 1/16 slope

Yup.  Adding 1/16" was the first thing I did before drawing anything.  the problem is that when modeling at 1/16", the fittings will not cut in with no slope (or backgraded) on the branches (the 90s and 45s also come in with the open end flat or backgraded)

[rjdonahue]

One thing I've found, when you are placing a single fitting with the slope on, the end facing away from you will slope down (as you can see with the green node) and when you rotate it to put the end toward you, it will slope up (blue node). A little hard to explain so take a look at the pictures. Just go to a 3d view and check which way the node is saying that the fitting will slope, and if that's not right, rotate the view to the look at the other side of the pipe.

This works for cutting a fitting in on a vertical run too.