Mastering Autodesk® Revit® MEP 2011

Chapter 21. Creating Lighting Fixtures

Lighting fixtures can be anywhere in a building. They hang from ceilings and structure; are mounted in floors, walls, and stairs; and even stand on their own. With Revit MEP 2011, you can make any shape or form into a lighting fixture family so that if your project requires it, you can create a unique fixture. However, the majority of lighting fixtures used in building design are of a few basic shapes. Unless your project requires it for visualization, there is no need to go into great detail when creating the geometry of your lighting fixture families. Keeping their design simple will enable you to focus more on the computable data within your fixture families.

Lighting fixtures are unique Revit MEP families ...