Add light fixture tags to your reflected ceiling plan to help identify the placement of different lights. This includes copying existing light tags and pasting them in the appropriate locations in the office, the big office and the document room.
Key Insights
- The process of adding light fixture tags to a reflected ceiling plan begins with copying an existing light tag, such as the L2 light tag, and pasting it in the desired locations.
- L1 and L2 light fixtures are labeled accordingly and placed in the office and the big office. The L4 light fixtures are labeled for the document room lights.
- Once all light fixtures are labeled and placed appropriately, the layout can be viewed in its entirety in paper space, providing a clear and organized visual of the light fixture placements.
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The last step for our reflected ceiling plan is to add light fixture tags to our lights. They will help tie our lights to our light fixture schedule and identify which light is which. Let's start by copying this L2 light tag.
We'll select it, CO to copy. I will select the base point as the bottom of that light and I will paste it two times in the office. That is our L2 light fixture.
Now we need our L1 light fixture which is right here in the big office. Let's just copy over the L2 again, CO to copy. Grab the bottom of this fixture, click there and click one time at the bottom left corner there.
Bottom left corner light and we'll just double click and change it from L2 to L1 and say okay. Select it, CO to copy and now we'll copy it around. We'll pick a base point at the bottom of this light, paste it at the bottom of each of these lights and last one right there.
Perfect. We've got our L1 and L2 all labeled up. Now we need to label our document room lights.
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Luckily we've already done that for our reception room so we'll select one of our L4s, CO to copy, click one time right in the center of the light and then click in the center of each of our document room lights. One, two, three, and four and they're all L4s. With that let's go back to paper space.
We'll type in P space and we can zoom Z, E for extents. We'll see that whole sheet and everything is looking really good.
