Revit 2020 - Spools

By Justin Doughty

I was recently asked how to produce Spools or Spool drawings in Revit. Below are 3 suggestions you may wish to explore.

1. Revit Assemblies

Create an assembly for the spool and then create views from there. This will automatically create views from the assembly:

They can be dragged and dropped onto the sheet. Obviously they would need annotations and dimensions, but should get something close:

2. CADmep Spool
Use Fabrication parts and convert the Revit design parts to Fabrication parts:

Then export the Fabrication parts to CADmep using the extension:

Then in CADmep use the spool tool:
Define and Create Spools

3. PCF
As per suggestion 2, convert the Revit design parts to Fabrication parts, but then use the following macro to create a PCF File:
https://blogs.autodesk.com/revit/2017/07/26/exporting-pcf-files-from-revit/

Finally in Plant 3D run PCF to ISO with the resulting drawing: