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Lighting System Intro
Electrical · Lighting System · 1m
This lesson introduces the new approach to hosting light fixtures in Revit, focusing on level hosting to simplify the design process. By eliminating the need for ceilings or reference planes, you can easily place fixtures at a specified height without the risk of misalignment.
Key topics include fixture placement, circuiting, control methods, and annotation practices, all designed to enhance your efficiency and accuracy in electrical design.
Transcript
Alright. So this is an illuminating module about light fixtures. So light fixtures used to be very difficult to host. They would want to have a face, so you'd have to work in an RCP, which is a reflective ceiling plan. And sometimes you don't see the equipment underneath. You don't see where the desk is or, you know, the doorway or something. It could be a little hard to coordinate. And they they always needed a face, so you had to mount to a ceiling. And if there was no ceiling, then you had to make a reference plane. And if you drew the reference plane wrong, your fixtures are upside down.
So it was just like one thing after another that just added so much friction to the entire design. Instead, we did away with all that. We just decided to make our fixtures level hosted. And what that means is if you want your fixture eight feet off the ground, you just punch in eight feet, put it in the floor plan. It stays at eight feet. You don't have to guess. If the ceiling moves, it's not gonna be yanked out of view. If you don't have a ceiling, doesn't care. It'll just pop in there and hang at eight feet. So this course is gonna go over placement of fixtures, how to circuit them, how to control them, and how to annotate all that. Alright? Let's go.