Explore the process of designing a lighting plan in a specific area, including the use of guidelines for placement and the implementation of specific dimensions for light fixtures. Understand the role of various tools and techniques such as annotation, detail lines, and the mirror draw axis for optimal placement.
Key Insights
- The article guides readers through the process of creating a lighting plan using guidelines to help with light placement and providing dimensions for light fixtures.
- Various tools are utilized throughout the process, including annotation, detail lines, and the mirror draw axis function which helps in maintaining symmetry in the design.
- The article highlights the option to customize and adjust the design, like changing the scale view or cleaning the reference planes, to ensure the design is easy to read and understand.
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I'm now gonna go back to my ceiling plan and I'm gonna draw in some guidelines that are gonna help me out with where the lights are gonna go. And this is just a helpful step to do ahead of time. And it also helps us provide the dimensions for the light fixtures as well.
So I'm gonna do annotate, detail line. And I'm gonna start out by drawing some verticals here. And this line style that I wanna use is gonna be the center line.
And so this first one is going to be three foot six from the edge. See that's two foot five right now, but we'll change that to three foot six. Okay, and then I'll draw another one.
That's gonna be three foot six from this face here. Now I want four light fixtures, including this portion and this portion. So I'm gonna copy this over twice.
Not really worried about where it's gonna be because I'll just take another dimension that connects all three of these. And then I'll set it to equal because then it'll hold these two in place and spread them equally between here. So I'll have two more.
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And I'm gonna take this one. And remember how we did that mirror draw axis? We're gonna do the same thing because we want the light to be three foot six away on both sides. We'll use the mirror draw axis at 45 degrees and that'll set the horizontal location for those lights as well.
And so that gives me the three foot six. And we can just double check these dimensions for my lights. And I'm gonna change my scale of this view because I'm seeing it's just getting a little tight now to quarter inch equals a foot.
And it'll be easier for me to kind of read how everything's going together here. The other one I need is gonna be down the middle of this. And that one's easy to draw because I can just find the midpoint here.
And I'm just gonna use the match type tool. And if you're not familiar with that one, that's gonna be keyboard shortcut MA. And then it's gonna be from this piece right here.
So I'll pick the one I want, which is the center line and then apply it to that guy there. If you're having a hard time and you're saying like, man, there's just a lot of reference planes and things going on in here. Feel free to clean house a bit and delete some of them.
You know, we don't need all these ones from the curtain wall that we were using before. Those can all be removed. And so now we can kind of see what the layout's gonna be.
We're gonna have lights at each one of these intersections. And then we're gonna do a specialty fixture kind of down the middle here in the base through there. So the first one we're gonna do is we're gonna go ahead and add our can lights, which are gonna be the perimeter lighting.
And then we'll load in the feature lighting and add those next.
