Placing hosted components

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And we're looking at the conference area ceiling plan,

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which is where we will place the lights

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to place a light fitting in.

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The model will go to the architecture ribbon tab from the build panel,

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which is the placer component tool.

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Looking at the type selector here,

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we can see that we have various components with this

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including some planting and an elevator here but no actual light fittings.

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So first we'll need to load those light fitting

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families into the project for us to use.

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So I'll choose modify to cancel the placer component tool

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and then to load the light fittings, we'll go to the insert ribbon tab

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and from the load from library panel

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would click load Autodesk family.

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This will open up the cloud based Autodesk content browser.

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And before we look for families, we just need to check the locale settings

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to ensure the region is set to United States Imperial

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looking at the browse folders. On the left hand side,

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we'll click on the lighting folder

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and then from the sub folders, we'll choose the architectural internal folder.

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Now we can see we have some light fittings in the results panel here,

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scrolling down,

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we'll choose the pendant

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lamp, arc glass led

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and scrolling down to the bottom.

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We choose the troo

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light two by four parabolic

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or then click load. And this will be downloaded into our project for us to use.

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So now that we have those loaded, we'll go back to the architecture ribbon tab

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and from the build panel, we'll click on the closer component tool

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straight away in the type selector. We can see we have the troo

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like two by four parabolic as one of the ones that we downloaded.

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If I click on the type selector here,

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we'll look at the search bar and we'll type in lamp.

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And then we can see we also have dependent lamp and the other truffle lamps too

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to replace the truffle

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light two by 44 lamp 1 20 volt type.

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And now as I move my cursor over the window, we can see we have the symbol that

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shows we need to place it into a ceiling as it's a hosted family.

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So as we go over the ceiling here, we can see the preview of the light.

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We can also see that we're not actually getting any object snaps for the grid. So

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we'll just have to place this into the ceiling

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and then would align it into the correct place afterwards. So

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we'll click modify to finish placing the lights

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and we'll align this to line up with the ceiling grid.

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So from the modify ribbon tab on the modify panel, we'll choose the align tool

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and then we'll click the upper horizontal grid line as the reference and

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then click the top of the light fit in to align to that.

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Now we'll click the vertical grid on the left side

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and then the left side of the light fit in

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to align that into its position.

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So now that's aligned to the ceiling grid,

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we'll choose modify to finish the aligned tool

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and we'll array the light fitting across the

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conference room to create the light and layout.

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So first we'll select the light fit in

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and then from the modified lighting fixtures, ribbon on the modify panel here,

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we'll choose the array to

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now looking at the options bar, we can see it's set to a linear array.

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We'll uncheck the group and associate option

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and we'll change the number from 2 to 3.

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And we can see we have the move to option set to second.

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So now we can go down into the view and we'll click

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on the vertical grid line on the left for the start point

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and then we'll leave a gap of one tile here.

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So we move across to the second and then click

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and then we'll get the three light fittings rayed across the room.

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So now we'll do this in the opposite direction. So

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we'll select these light fittings

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and I'll just use the control key to multiple, select them

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and then we'll go back to the modified tab and choose the arrow tool once more.

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And they're looking at the options bar,

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we need to set the number to three again.

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And this time we'll change the move two option from second to last.

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Now we're ready to array these.

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So we'll use the lower grid line but the light fit in here as the base point.

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So we'll click here

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and now we'll go to the last

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grid line. So moving down to the bottom of the room

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and we'll click on this grid line here to be the last point

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so that we then get the three light fittings erode between those two grid lines.

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You can see we have one that's outside of the room due to the shape of the room here.

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So I'll select this one

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and then from the modify ribbon tab, we'll just click delete to get rid of it.