Explore how to place lighting fixtures and achieve symmetrical alignment in the hallway using Revit MEP. Learn how to use the array function to distribute lights evenly down a corridor and how to install wall sconces effectively.
Key Insights
- The tutorial covers how to place 8-inch incandescent recessed lighting fixtures in a hallway using Revit MEP. This includes using temporary dimensions to position the fixtures accurately.
- The instructor demonstrates the use of the array function, an efficient method for distributing multiple lights evenly in a hallway. The tutorial stresses the importance of aligning lights to maintain symmetry and aesthetic value.
- The article also illustrates how to install wall sconces, with careful consideration of door placement and vertical face elevation. Dimensioning between multiple fixtures to equalize their spacing is also covered.
Welcome back to the CAD Teacher VDCI video course content for the BIM 321 course Introduction to Revit MEP. In the previous videos we went ahead and got our different lighting fixtures placed here. I want to go ahead now and actually place some lighting fixtures into the actual hallway.
We're going to be using some down cans, some 8-inch down lights here. So I'm going to go to systems, I'm going to go to lighting fixture, I'm going to go ahead and choose an 8-inch incandescent recessed can, a little bit larger. I'm going to use a place on face and I'm going to go ahead first and place it here.
I'm going to use the temporary dimensions and I'm just going to go ahead and place it about right here and then hit escape. I'm going to go ahead and I want to align or use my align dimension so I'm going to go to my annotate tab, aligned. I'm going to go from the edge here to there, bring it out.
I'm going to go from the edge of the wall to the center of the light to the other edge of the wall and I'm going to equalize this here and then I want to go ahead, I'm going to select this here and I want to change this to 3 foot 6. There we go. So I select the light and then I click on the dimension. Now instead of just taking these down, I'm going to remove these and unconstrain.
Instead of just taking this down and making new ones, I'm going to go ahead and do an array. The array is a very quick and easy way that we can get lights all the way down this corridor. So I'm going to go ahead and hit escape to clear everything out.
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I want to go to my modify tab and I'm going to go ahead and click on array right here. So I'm going to go array. It's going to ask me to select the objects I want to array so I'm going to pick on the light here and then hit ENTER to say that I'm done.
And there we are. Now I need to go ahead and change them and I'm actually going to go ahead and move it to last. So there's a couple of different things here.
We can either choose between a linear or radial array. We want to go ahead and group and associate and let's go ahead and just make this 10 for right now. Okay and then we have to move, I want to move it to the last one.
I want them evenly spaced between my last one. So I'm going to go ahead and click here and I'm going to drag down. Place it about here and there we are.
We have 10 lights there. I'm going to go ahead and I think I like that setup so I'm going to go ahead and hit ENTER to say that I'm done and there we go. Now we didn't really place this in a specific location right so we need to go ahead and move it into a location and we can't use the dimension.
If I went to my annotate tab and I went to aligned and I picked from the wall edge here to here you'll notice that I can, if I select the light I can't change this dimension text. We need to come up with a different way of doing it. I'm going to select this and move it down.
I'm going to go ahead and do a detail line so I'm going to go DL for detail line and I'm just going to draw a detail line along this wall just like that. So as you can see I have that little detail line there. Now I'm going to go ahead and offset that down three foot six.
So I'm going to go to my modify tab, I'm going to go to offset, change my offset distance to three foot six and I'm going to go ahead and offset to the side there. Now I'm going to go ahead and align this to this edge so I'm going to go AL for align, pick here, pick there and it's going to maintain the array but space them out how I need to. Okay so again all I did was I drew this detail line, I offset it down three foot six and aligned the light to that line that I offset it from the wall edge and there we go.
Let's take another look at this array and it seems like that 10 foot distance fits perfectly. Awesome. Now I want to go let's add in some wall sconces and we'll be good to go.
I want to go ahead, let's go to systems, I'm going to go to lighting fixture, I'm going to choose my wall sconce, let's choose a 60 watt 120 volt and remember with the wall sconce we want to place it on a vertical face and we're going to choose an elevation. So I'm going to go ahead and let's change this to seven feet and there we are and then I'm going to go ahead come here, place and it's not showing up right away but that's okay. Now the one thing that we do need to remember when we're working on this is where the doors are located.
So let's go ahead and keep just placing these and we may have to go back and adjust them later. Place one there, one here, one here and one here. I want to go ahead and just dimension these out real quickly.
Now as you notice the same thing kind of happened that happened on the first floor. It picked the wall grid or the grid line before it picked the wall edge. So I'm going to select this, pick new and make sure that I pick the wall edge.
I'm going to come up here, pick new host, there we are. Select here, pick new host, here and there we go. I'm going to go ahead and dimension between all these so I can equalize them out.
So I'm going to go to my annotate aligned. I'm going to pick the center line of that fixture there to the center line here, here, here, here and here. I'm going to go ahead and click that.
I'm going to zoom out, find my equality constraint and equal those out. Perfect. Undo my equality and then I'm going to just select it and delete.
I'm going to go ahead zoom extents, CTRL S and save the file and that's really it that we've all put in for the actual lighting fixtures. So I'm going to go ahead stop this video here. In the next videos we're going to be putting in some electrical equipment and some conduit and some cable tray.
See you then.
