REVIT - NONCEILING BASED LIGHTS

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1 TUTORIAL C-29C: REVIT - NONCEILING BASED LIGHTS This Tutorial explains how to create your own light fixture that can be placed anywhere. Most lights in Revit are ceiling based/hosted meaning that you have to place them within a ceiling. Not all spaces always have a ceiling and sometimes lights want to be on walls, columns, components, etc. The following tutorial will make a light that does not rely on a host. By Jeremy L Roh, Professor of BIMethods UNC Charlotte s School of Architecture

2 This tutorial will walk you through the steps to create a wall sconce that is not required to be hosted to any walls or ceilings. Load Revit and select the Light Fixture.rft template file.

3 2) Select the Light Source Definition tool icon. 1) Select the light source on the plan view.

4 Change the light source to a halfsphere and click OK.

5 2) Click the Home tab and then the Set tool icon above the Work Plane ribbon. 1) Select the Light Source Definition 3) Select the (F/B) work plane from the pull down menu

6 Then select Front and press Open View

7 3) Click the Rotate command 4) Drag or select Place to move the rotate Origin point to the intersection of these reference planes 2) Click the Light Source Definition 1) Open the Left elevation

8 Rotate the Light Source Definition to the right 90-degrees.

9 1) Select the horizontal reference plane named, Light Source Elevation 2) Click the dimension text and change it from 4-6 to 5-0

10 1) Click the Align tool icon. 2) Select the horizontal reference plane that was just moved to 5-0 3) Select the center horizontal line of the light source definition.

11 Click the Lock button

12 Select the horizontal reference plane again and click the dimension text to change it from 5-0 to 4-6. This is to test out that the light source moves with the reference plane.

13 Select the dimension icon on the temporary dimension string to turn this dimension into a real dimension.

14 2) Select <Add parameter...> from the pull down menu next to Label. 1) Select the dimension.

15 Create a new parameter as shown below. Make it an Instance parameter.

16 The parameter is added to the dimension string.

17 Click the Extrusion tool icon under the Home tab.

18 Click the Centerends Arc tool icon and draw a half circle with the center point at the intersection of the two reference planes

19 Pick the vertical line and select the lock icon.

20 1) Click the Trim/ Extend tool icon 2) Trim the top and bottom so that this a closed half-circle shape

21 1) Make the Extrusion End and Extrusion Start settings as shown here. 2) Click the white space in the Material portion of the Properties dialog box. Then click the gray button that appears. 3) Click Duplicate in the Materials dialog box.

22 Give the new material a unique name

23 1) In the Appearance tab and under Appearance Property Sets, select Glass 2) Scroll down until you find the material Luminous - Translucent White

24 1) Expand the Self Illumination portion of the Appearance properties. 3) Change this value to ) Select under the Luminance drop down menu, the option for a Dim Glow

25 Click the Check box.

26 A Warning occurs indicating that this light source is in a solid. Do the next steps to fix the issue.

27 Use the Trim/ Extend command and the Split Element command to create this lens shape.

28 The result is a light mode that looks like this in 3D. Click Load into Project for placement.

29 Place the light in plan and then look at it in 3D. Change the Light Height elevation as desired.

30 Place all the lights as necessary, then click the View tab and Render

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32 TUTORIAL C-29C: REVIT - NONCEILING BASED LIGHTS This Tutorial explains how to create your own light fixture that can be placed anywhere. Most lights in Revit are ceiling based/hosted meaning that you have to place them within a ceiling. Not all spaces always have a ceiling and sometimes lights want to be on walls, columns, components, etc. The following tutorial will make a light that does not rely on a host. [COMPLETE] By Jeremy L Roh, Professor of BIMethods UNC Charlotte s School of Architecture