How to Create a Residential Plumbing Plan

Planning a construction, or making a building plan you have taken into account the plumbing and piping factors. Making detailed Plumbing and Piping Plan will save time and costs. Also, drawing the Plumbing and Piping layout helps you to preview the project in detail, which may enable you to detect things that were probably missed. A clear, professional-looking Plumbing and Piping Plan also will make your communication with a building contractor more productive. Making a plumbing floor plan that shows the location and connection of pipes and plumbing equipment involves many plumbing plan symbols that can be managed using ConceptDraw DIAGRAM. The ability to design Plumbing and Piping plans is delivered by the Plumbing and Piping Plans solution. This solution supplied with four libraries that contain more than 100 vector stencils of plumbing and piping plan symbols.

1. Run ConceptDraw DIAGRAM.
2. Reveal the Plumbing and Piping Plans solution on the Solutions panel.
3. Activate libraries from the Plumbing and Piping Plans section on the Libraries panel.
4. Set the measurement units for your document by clicking on the intersection of the vertical and horizontal rulers.

5. Set the scale for your floor plan using Document Properties panel

6. Add objects to the drawing by dragging them from the libraries panel to the document page
7. Use Line and Fill tools to show on your plan the piping and plumbing layout for different purposes.

8. You can use a multiple layers when creating different parts of your Floor Plan. To move an object to another layer, simply drag and drop it from your document into the desired layer on the Layers palette.

Result: With ConceptDraw DIAGRAM you can easily create and communicate residential plumbing plans of any complexity.