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Sunday, October 18, 2009

Tutorial - Recessed Lighting Fixture

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A quick tutorial in response to an email I received.

This tutorial addresses the issue of a recessed ceiling light (usually fluorescent) that is not built into the Revit families. It is very simple to make the typical 2 foot by 4 foot ceiling light that is seen in every acoustic tile ceiling.


Topics Covered:
  • Editing a Lighting Fixture Family.
  • Creating Parameters.
  • Editing Parameters.
  • Testing Parameters.
  • Aligning and constraining family elements.




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Confusio · 806 weeks ago

Nice tutorial, but why does the glass extrusion go above the ceiling line at the end? Both extrusions seemed to share the same face until the drop went to 1/4" ?
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TheRevitKid 72p · 806 weeks ago

I believe the glass was recessed into the extrusion by 1/4" initially. They do not share the same face.
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St. · 793 weeks ago

Beautiful tutorial but i could not download tobe go over all the layers of steps. Pls how may i download it? Thanks
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zasdf · 745 weeks ago

great tutorial but can you do the same thing with the other type of ceiling light that revit has provided
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Mike · 710 weeks ago

Ugggg! I followed the tutorial 4x's and can't get the light source to show properly when rendering. Either the box is dark like there is no hole in the ceiling or the the light is leaking through. In both cases there is low light in room coming from somewhere.

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