Enhance your office's look by illuminating it with some ceiling grid lights. This article offers a step-by-step guide on how to select, copy, and place lights in different parts of the office space for an improved aesthetic.
Key Insights
- The article provides detailed instructions on how to select a light from one location, in this case, the restroom, and how to CO2 copy it to place in another location.
- Specific instructions are given on how to position the light correctly, including using commands for rotation and selection of specific grid corners for placement.
- It is highlighted that the size of the lights and the number used can be adjusted according to the size of the room, with larger rooms requiring larger lights and possibly more fixtures.
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Now let's light up our offices with some ceiling grid lights. Let's go ahead and first grab a light from the restroom. Select it, CO2 copy.
I want to grab the bottom right corner. Click. Go to this junior office and grab the bottom right corner of the bottom center grid.
Click. And we'll put one up in the top center grid as well. Click.
Hit escape and that looks lovely. We've got our ceiling lights. Let's go ahead and go to the conference room.
We'll select one of these big two foot by four foot lights, CO2 copy. Click and bring it down to our executive office. Let's just place it somewhere randomly for now.
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Just click. Hit escape. Select it and type in the command for rotate.
R-O, enter. Click in the middle and type in 90 and enter. And there it is.
Now let's move it into place. We'll grab the top right corner here. Click.
And we'll go to this open spot right there. And now we will copy it around. CO2 copy.
Grab its corner. Now these are larger lights for a larger room. And we're doing four instead of two.
All right, that looks really good.
