Ceiling mounted lights dont mirror or copy well

[sbrown]

Anyone else notice you almost never can array, copy or mirror ceiling based families and have them land on the right ceiling or even in the ceiling? I've found this with recessed cans. I don't remember this problem in earlier releases.

[Steve_Stafford]

I have noticed this too with the troffer families recently.

[abarrette]

I've had recent issues with this myself. I've noted that it is specifically when copying from one ceiling sketch to another that I have the most issues. When copying within the same ceiling sketch things happen the way they should (or at least how I think they should).

Ceilings have been a point of consternation with me recently. Lack of snap controls, poor shaded view representation, difficult differentiation between new vs. existing, etc., etc. For not carrying that much information ceilings seem to draw an awful lot of processing power. I would have to say it is one of my few complaints with Revit so far.

[sbrown]

my issues are within the same ceiling sketch. If you want the ceiling to be "bright" in a shaded view you need to set its material to "glow" its located as a check box in the materials dialog box in the shaded area.

[bowlingbrad]

Our specific problem with ceilings involves the 2'x4' ACT ceiling.

We place a ceiling.
We need the ceiling grid to read horizontally instead of vertically so we select a grid line in the hatch pattern, pick rotate, and rotate it 90. We move/align the grid to its proper location within the room. Great so far.
We place our troffers in the grid.
We need to mirror this ceiling and light configuration to another location.
We select the ceiling and the lights, pick mirror and an axis. NOT GREAT.
The ceiling grid has reverted back to its original vertical orientation.
We select a grid line, pick rotate, and rotate it 90. An error box appears stating that the lights are now outside of the ceiling host. THEY ROTATED WITH THEIR HOST.

Our procedure is:
Mirror the ceiling and lights.
Cut the lights to the clipboard.
Rotate the grid lines.
Paste Aligned the lights back in.
Align the grid to the lights.
Whew.

Anyone have a more simplified method? Am I missing something?
Brad