topic Re: lighting plans in Revit Architecture Forum

lighting plans

rwdesign1 — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 19:50:36 GMT

I'm trying to bring light fixtures into a lighting plan. When I try placing them they get placed on the floor, and cannot be modified or deleted in ceiling/lighting plan view.

I'm also trying to grey out furniture etc.

Re: lighting plans

ToanDN — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 19:52:18 GMT

@rwdesign1 wrote:

I'm trying to bring light fixtures into a lighting plan. When I try placing them they get placed on the floor, and cannot be modified or deleted in ceiling/lighting plan view.

I'm also trying to grey out furniture etc.

Shouldn't you be creating ceiling plan views and placing lighting fixtures in those views?

Re: lighting plans

rwdesign1 — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 20:02:19 GMT

I am bringing them into a ceiling plan, but thats whats happening. Can you help?

Re: lighting plans

ToanDN — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 20:03:02 GMT

Share your file here.

Re: lighting plans

HVAC-Novice — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 20:17:10 GMT

Do you see the ceiling in the ceiling view? Are those fixtures face or ceiling based? Try the oob fixtures if they give you the same trouble. if not, find out what is different on your families.

Share your family and I can try to place it in my project.

Re: lighting plans

RobDraw — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 21:57:29 GMT

Going by you other post, it sounds like you need some tutorials or a Revit Essentials course. Without some basic training, you are going to continue to struggle.

Re: lighting plans

rwdesign1 — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 22:52:20 GMT

Thank you Rob

I actually did have advanced training, yet I'm pretty new in the field. After trying all avenues and before bothering my

revit school teacher (who ultimately had real difficulty solving this issue in my file somehow, via zoom meeting)I placed this question here on this autodesk forum hoping to get this problem solved. Unfortunately, the only answer you had to give me was that I'm undertrained. Seemingly you cant help with simple beginner questions. You seem to appreciate answering only advanced upper class questions. This is definitely unprofessional, and is causing me to think long and hard before I post my questions I have difficulty finding answers to.

Thank you

Re: lighting plans

ToanDN — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 22:55:05 GMT

Again, share your Revit file here.

Re: lighting plans

rwdesign1 — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 23:02:56 GMT

When you previously offered that I share my file, I tried and my file was too large to share here. Thankfully, with lots of trial and error I think I solved my issue.

Thank you so much

Re: lighting plans

RobDraw — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 23:07:25 GMT

I'm not a professional in these forums. I only play one in real life. Here, I'm just another user that can see you are missing some basic stuff that would be covered in some free tutorials for any of the trades. If you focused your search appropriately, you would have your answers and, as a bonus, some tricks of the trade. Much more than can be offered by direct answers to your problems.

I'm sorry you're offended by good advice.