In this article, the focus is on the Introduction to Revit MEP course at CAD Teacher VDCI, particularly the steps involved in configuring light fixtures on the second floor of a building model. The content details a step-by-step procedure of how to use various tools and options in the software to accurately place and align light fixtures in a model.
Key Insights
- The article explains how to utilize the 'Lighting Fixture' option to select the appropriate light fixture for the model, in this case, a 'downlight recessed can, 6-inch incandescent, 120 volt'.
- A significant part of the content is dedicated to demonstrating how to accurately place the selected light fixtures on the ceiling using the 'Place on Face' option and align them correctly with the 'Align Dimensions' tool.
- The author emphasizes the importance of continuously checking for potential issues in the architectural model, such as missing walls, and ensuring that these are communicated to the architect for rectification.
Welcome back to the CAD Teacher VDCI video course content for the BIM 321 course, Introduction to Revit MEP. In the previous video, we went ahead and actually got all of our light fixtures for the first floor done, so I want to go ahead and let's go up to the second floor and take care of our light fixtures there. So, I'm going to go ahead under my project browser here, I'm going to go to Ceiling Plans, I'm going to go to Level 2, I'm under Electrical, Lighting, and then Ceiling Plans, and I'm going to go to Level 2. And here we are.
We've gone ahead and got this guy all dialed. Now, I'm going to go ahead and start the same place I started with our bathroom. So I'm going to zoom in here.
I'm going to go ahead, I'm going to go to Lighting Fixture. I'm going to pick from, I'm not going to use the sconce light here, I'm going to go ahead and pull this down. I'm going to choose the downlight recessed can, 6-inch incandescent, 120 volt.
And then I need to choose my placement option as Place on Face, not on Vertical Face, but Place on Face, because I want to place it on the ceiling. I'm going to go ahead and pop this guy in here, here, and here. I'm also going to pop it in here.
I'm going to go ahead and pop one in here, and here, and also one here. Same layout that we had before. Now, you may notice that the wall here is not showing.
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That's probably because the architect has an issue in their model. So I'm not going to adjust my model really to show that, but we may want to let the architect know, hey, this wall is missing, and so we actually can't see that there. I'm going to go ahead and place one here, here, and here.
I'm going to go ahead and place one here, and here, and last one here. I'm going to go ahead and hit Escape, and I'm actually going to go ahead now and actually do my aligning, and make my equality constraints. So let's go ahead, let's hop over to the Annotate tab.
I'm going to choose Aligned, and I'm going to go from this wall edge here, to here, to here, to here, and then I'm going to go ahead and choose this wall edge. I can still use that to align. There we are.
Hit my EQ, and it evened those out. I'm going to go ahead and hit the Delete key, and then remove that there, and just hit Unconstrained. I'm going to go ahead, go back to my Annotate tab, Aligned, pick here, here, here, here, and here, and that wall edge.
I'm going to go hit EQ, equalize them out, remove the EQ, and then delete the dimension. I'm going to go ahead now, Aligned, I'm going to go here, and here. Actually, remember, we need to go here, to the light, and then to here.
And then I'm going to hit my EQ, and then delete the dimension. I'm going to go Aligned again, here, here, and here. Actually, I want to get that wall edge, so I need Tab.
Pick here, Wall Edge, Tab there, EQ, undo it, there we go. I also want to go ahead, and I'm going to go Align Dimension. I'm going to also align this guy in this direction.
And that is going to give me a piece to align to, for all of these lights here. So, I want to go AL for Align. I'm going to check my Multiple Alignment.
I'm going to pick on this edge here, and again, maybe turn on my Thin Lines. After I've done this, it makes it a little bit easier. There, there, and there.
Perfect. I'm going to hit Escape. I also want to go ahead and align this and this, so I'm going to go grab this guy here, and here.
I notice that I just forgot to put in one light, so all I'm going to do is, I'm going to select this, go Create Similar, choose my place on face, and then use those snaps to align it to the ones I need to. There we go. I'm going to go ahead and align here and here.
I'm going to align here. Oops, see, what happened was, I had that Multiple Alignment on. So, I'm going to hit Escape, Control Z, to undo.
I'm going to go AL for Align, and uncheck my Multiple Alignment. There we are. I want to go ahead, I'm going to use my Align Dimensions again to align these lights.
Here, here, tab to get the wall edge, equal, and then uncheck the equal, and then I can just delete the dimension. I won't have that little warning box come up. I'm going to go Align, pick here, here, and actually pick here again, and then align those together.
I'm going to go ahead and Zoom Extents, and we've got those lights dialed for the bathroom. I'm going to go ahead, stop the video here, and I will see you in the next one.
