I'm having trouble figure out what is going on 'behind the scenes' with Revit 2017 lights and switches.
I've read everything I can find but it still isn't clear. I'm doing residential projects with a single panel,
ceiling lights, and wall switches. I'm not having any trouble with the panel and receptacles and am able
to chain and populate those so they are assigned to the panel correctly, and the wires display as lines.
Here are questions for the items that confuse me:
-The switches available in the provided library do not seem to have connectors. I have added a single
connector for the single switch. What do I do for a double switch, or a three way switch?
- When I place a single switch and a single light, I seem to be able to assign an electrical circuit to
either (or both). The examples I've seen suggest that assigning lights to a circuit is correct and the
switch should not have a circuit assigned to it. Is this correct?
- What is going on behind the scenes for Switch Systems? I think this information is kept separately.
But I can't find anything that displays the information in a table like I can with the load center.
is there something?
- Although I can see the dashed line wire from a light to a switch when I select the light then hit Tab,
I am unable to permanently make it visible (a wire), like I can with circuit wires. How do I do this?
(Is this possibly a view range problem?)
- When I place all of the lights for a level, I connect them using one or two circuits. Do I then separately
connect switches to lights (or groups of lights)? I.E., usually all the lights are on one circuit, but each room
has a separate light for one or more switches.
- When I am Editing a Switch System, and trying to select a switch, they all seem to have the same name,
which is the name of the Switch ID. Can Switch ID's have unique names?
Thanks much!
I've read everything I can find but it still isn't clear. I'm doing residential projects with a single panel,
ceiling lights, and wall switches. I'm not having any trouble with the panel and receptacles and am able
to chain and populate those so they are assigned to the panel correctly, and the wires display as lines.
Here are questions for the items that confuse me:
-The switches available in the provided library do not seem to have connectors. I have added a single
connector for the single switch. What do I do for a double switch, or a three way switch?
- When I place a single switch and a single light, I seem to be able to assign an electrical circuit to
either (or both). The examples I've seen suggest that assigning lights to a circuit is correct and the
switch should not have a circuit assigned to it. Is this correct?
- What is going on behind the scenes for Switch Systems? I think this information is kept separately.
But I can't find anything that displays the information in a table like I can with the load center.
is there something?
- Although I can see the dashed line wire from a light to a switch when I select the light then hit Tab,
I am unable to permanently make it visible (a wire), like I can with circuit wires. How do I do this?
(Is this possibly a view range problem?)
- When I place all of the lights for a level, I connect them using one or two circuits. Do I then separately
connect switches to lights (or groups of lights)? I.E., usually all the lights are on one circuit, but each room
has a separate light for one or more switches.
- When I am Editing a Switch System, and trying to select a switch, they all seem to have the same name,
which is the name of the Switch ID. Can Switch ID's have unique names?
Thanks much!
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