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light fixtures as work plane hosted?

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light fixtures as work plane hosted?

Hi all,

I want some light fixtures that are work plane hosted so that I can nest them in ceiling or floor hosted families. This would allow me to use the exact same light fixture in a dropped ceiling as I would use for a ceiling created by a joist floor without having to add a fake ceiling under the joists. I started with the "Lighting Fixture.rft" (because it is not ceiling or wall hosted) but quickly found that it was difficult to bring in all the information from the "Downlight - Recessed Can.rfa" file. I could not copy the "connector element" and the ceiling plan objects did not show. Does anyone know a good way to extract this stuff.....or equally....convert a ceiling hosted family to a work plane hosted family?

Is there a better approch to this?

James LeVieux
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CADdaddy.com
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This whole idea isn't working out so well....I turns out that if you cut the hole in the bottom of the floor of the host floor the hole goes all the way to the top and you can see the hole in the floor above. I guess this would be OK if your floor consists of just joists and subfloor - then the holes could be covered up by another floor layer of finish material.

James (again)
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If you are using the Opening tool to cut the hole, it will go all the way
through the object. You should create a Void that is the size of the hosted
object, and assign it to cut the host.

-MJ


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This whole idea isn't working out so well....I turns out that if you cut the
hole in the bottom of the floor of the host floor the hole goes all the way
to the top and you can see the hole in the floor above. I guess this would
be OK if your floor consists of just joists and subfloor - then the holes
could be covered up by another floor layer of finish material.

James (again)

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