Lighting Fixtures in opposite direction

[MiguelGT17]

Greetings to everyone,

I wish to place lighting fixtures at the top of mirrors. So far, I've achieved to placed them in the opposite direction

Manually workflow

C# macro:

...
XYZ mirrorLoc = new XYZ(centroidMirror.X,centroidMirror.Y,bb.Max.Z)
FamilyInstance famIns = doc.Create.NewFamilyInstance(mirrorLoc,vanityLight, wallMirror, firstLevel,StructuralType.NonStructural);

What would it be the best approach for this matter, look into the rotation parameters, mirror, etc. Which one do you suggest?

All the best,

Miguel G.

[jeremy_tammik]

Rotate them into the correct position and orientation manually in the user interface.

Compare their element properties and relationships before and afterwards using RevitLookup and other database exploration tools:

https://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2017/01/virtues-of-reproduction-research-mep-settings-onto...

That can give you a hint of what properties to modify to achieve the desired orientation programmatically.

[sragan]

Also, are they just rotated wrong, or are they actually on the wrong side of the wall?

[MiguelGT17]

I see the hand orientation and facing orientation having a negative value although those are only read parameters and when using fliphand(),flipOrientation(), rotate() it retrieves a false bool operation.

[MiguelGT17]

Regarding the first point, I'm using rotate() command but it can not be rotated neither the fliphand() or fliporientation() works

For the second scenario, how is it that I can set the right side of the wall?