As I have mentioned my company has a set of standard ways they want to see their ductwork represented. OOTB the ductwork drops in with concentric (centered) fittings, our company uses eccentric. Also OOTB shoe-taps/beveled taps show up automatically for round duct. Our company likes to use spin fittings. While I have not found an acceptable spin fitting in the catalog yet, for the time being I have chosen to change the fitting that is automatically dropped in to a round duct straight tap. This way my people can just draw a line to represent the other portion of the spin fitting symbol we typically use until I can create one. I have listed below the steps that I took to accomplish these settings.
For Round Duct:
Click on the "Add duct" button on the Duct palette.
Choose Round duct.
Under Justification set Horizontal to "Left", keep Vertical set to "Center".
Go to the black down arrow at the bottom of this pop-up and click it once and WAIT.
Under "Takeoff" make sure "Round duct take off US imperial" is checked.
Under "Transition" make sure "Eccentric round duct transition US imperial" is checked.
Then draw a couple of ducts to make sure this setting stuck.
For Rectangular Duct:
Click on the "Add duct" button on the Duct palette.
Choose a Rectangular duct.
Under Justification set Horizontal to "Left", keep Vertical set to "Center".
Go to the black down arrow at the bottom of this pop-up and click it once and WAIT.
Under "Takeoff" make sure "Rectangular duct take beveled tap US imperial" is checked.
Under "Transition" make sure "Rectangular duct eccentric transition US imperial" is checked.
Then draw a couple of ducts to make sure this setting stuck.
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