Reflective Ceiling Plan - Lights
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Hey dear community,
I am trying to figure out how to prepare a reflective ceiling plan for lights in Layout (I will be looking downword onto my floor plan, no flipping of the plan).
I am taking a design course where the instructor has told us to do that. So the students are hand drawing or drawining in Sketchup. We do not study any softwares in the class - we just need to produce the product. I have some experience with Sketchup and know a little bit about Layout. However, I have never learned about the ceiling plan.So, my main questions how to do a reflective ceiling plan (for lights) in Layout:
- Do I just use my Sketchup floor plan model and insert symbols from Scrapebook to show the lights?
- How do I create a squiggly line to link the location of every light fixture to its light switch?
- Do I need to do it in Layout or it is easier to do in SketchUp?
I only have couple of days to create this plan. So I need a quick and easy approach to tackle this task.
Thank you very much!!!!
Elena
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SECTION IN MODEL
looking up
then make LAYOUT VIEW of section
then scale and reverse -1 -
RCP needs to mirror the ceiling like you're laying on the floor AND it needs to be in alignment with the floor plan - so you likely do need to flip it to match the top down (plan) view in the viewport.
then add the LO scrapbook electrical bits as needed.
i made custom components for use in SU to lay it out and then set a scene to use "show_symbol" vs object (so it's 2D). then unless it's some very specific wiring that needs to be shown in SU, i'll add any electrical lines between them using the layout lines to color them, size them etc.
this way i can flip from 3D to 2D quickly once i've positioned everything. do a "bottom" view (might require a section cut if i have flooring etc) from the standard perspectives, then flip in LO to mirror the floor plan.
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Hi everyone,
I wanted to share how I have solved the issue:- I drew symbols presenting various lights on top of my floor plan (in Layout).
- I drew continious lines between each light fixture to the location of each light switch (in Layout).
- I then used a paint bucket sampling a dotted line (I found it in Scrapbook, I think. However if you draw one dotted line by yourself and then sample it with paint droplet (the same as we paint any surface) and apply it to each continious line, you will turn your solid lines into dotte lines within a minute.
- I created a table in Word (a table and the description).
- I then dragged a jpg image of the table into Layout.
- I then copied and dragged a symbol of each light switch into the corresponding tab of the table (I might have used it different layers in Layout for the table and for the symbols but I do not think it is neccessary).
Tha is it. I spent quite a bit of time searching for the solution of creating a RFC and combining it with the description, but I could not find it. I am an interior decorator, not a designer or an architect.
For the final school project, I had to use several software to make a final package:- SketchUp - to draw the model
- Layout to organize RCP and the description of the lights.
- Word - to create the table and the description.
- InDesign - to put all renderings, pictures, RCP, etc together into a 55-page document.
- PDf: I think I addes some arrows at the end here.
I have attached two pages of my Reflected Ceiling Plan submission. These two pages a part of a 55-page document that I then prepared in Indesign.
That is it!
Lena
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