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    Default Starting a lighting plan

    This will be my first project using Revit MEP. I had some training, but it was a little over a year ago. My question is on lighting. The project is an office building. What is the best way to insert light fixtures? Do I want to use a reference plane for ceilings? One at 8', 8'-6", etc. Or do I want to make a ceiling in each room and just hide it when I print. I heard that you don't want to host it to the linked model because if they delete the ceiling you loose the fixtures. What should I do.

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    if you are using MEP 2009 then you want to create reference levels for each unique height of the ceilings and place them on those levels ( you will have to name the levels in-order to place fixtres on them), this is because of a bug that would throw your fixtures out into space if the architect significantly altered the ceiling. in MEP 2010, I heard it is ok to place them on the ceiling that the architects has provided through the link. I have not had a arch completely delete a ceiing on me, without puting one back in it's place. The archs are slowly learning to modify walls, ceilings and floors as much as possible without deleting unless absolutely necessary.

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