Explore the detailed process of setting up electrical lighting plans for a second floor in BIM 322 course. Learn how to initiate wiring, adjust them, tag them, and make necessary adjustments to ensure a well-structured lighting plan.
Key Insights
- The article provides a step by step walkthrough on starting a second-floor electrical lighting plan, beginning with setting up the actual wiring.
- It emphasizes on the importance of adjusting and tagging the wires in the plan. This process involves selecting specific wires that have the arrowhead on them and tagging them.
- The article concludes with the process of adjusting tags and saving the work. The writer also mentions the next steps, which include tagging and adjusting lighting fixture tags for the first and second floor.
Welcome back to the CAD Teacher VDCI video course content for the BIM 322 course. In the previous videos we went ahead and actually got our sheet view for our electrical lighting plan done. So let's go ahead and start on our second floor.
So in your project browser, I'm going to go ahead, let's jump over to the sheet view second floor electrical lighting, beautiful. And everything here is ready and set up to go. And so what we're going to go ahead and do now is, is I'm going to go ahead and start with my actual wiring like we did previously.
So I'm going to go ahead and start in these bathrooms again. Tab here, pick, and I'm going to go ahead and do arc wire. And as you can see, if you hit escape, this is really cool.
As you can see, because we changed it in object styles, our wire type, it automatically generates that line type and line weight for all the rest of our wires. We don't have to go back and change that setting again. Let's go ahead, tab here, arc wiring, tab, arc wire, tab.
You can also get arc wire up here. Same exact thing, arc wire, tab, arc wire, tab, arc wire, tab, arc wire, tab, arc wire, wire, tab, arc wire, tab, select, arc wire, tab, select, arc wire, tab, select, arc wire. And then these two guys here.
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And there we are. I'm going to go ahead and pause the video and what I'd like you to go ahead and do is once you've already placed all those wires, go ahead and adjust them and then we'll come back and tag them once you finish adjusting. All right? See you then.
I've gone ahead and gotten all of my tagging done, or excuse me, not my tagging, but I've adjusted all my wires. So what I want to go ahead and do now is actually go through and tag the wires.
So let's go to the annotate tab, go to tag by category, again, liter, half inch is fine, and we want to go ahead and then just go over the specific ones that we want, pick. And you only really need to tag just the ones that have the arrowhead on them. And again, they've already all been circuited, already given to panels, so there's no need for you to go ahead and do that.
Just go around and tag the specific ones. And I'm just going to go ahead and then adjust these once I've placed them all. Very simple, very easy to do.
I think I've actually got them all. Just one quick look over. Again, one of these things that you should be doing as you're doing this stuff is just making sure you've tagged everything that you need to before you start adjusting.
I'm going to go ahead and hit escape. And then all I'm going to do is I'm just going to go ahead and start adjusting some of these tags. Again, I kind of want this to point more to the middle of the line.
I can always move the tag slightly and get it to point to the middle of the line, or I could just turn it into a free end and I would accomplish the same thing. If for some reason you
happen to accidentally select the architectural link like I just did there, just hit escape before you do anything else and it'll deselect it for you. No reason to freak out.
And again, just go ahead, check all these wire tags and make sure that they're in the correct location where you want them. Just adjust them manually very quickly and very fast. Again, that one, I kind of want it to go more to the line, so I'm going to go free end and just change the layer from attached end to a free end.
There's no real big downsides to doing that. The only thing that can happen is that it will not, if I move that wire, I have to make sure I go back and actually move the tag also, or adjust the tag. So it's kind of one of these, do it if you can, but it's not a horribly big deal if you do do it.
You just have to make sure that you remember to go back and adjust that tag later on in case you move that light. And then here, I'm going to go ahead and make that a free end. And then if you accidentally do that, just hit escape.
Didn't tag one. All I need to do is go back to tag by category. Select here, and there it is.
I'm going to go ahead and place this guy in here. Again, I do not want to stack these wire tags because they're not all having the same. This is LP1A9, LP1C5.
So I want to make sure that I'm not stacking these tags because they do not contain the same information. Let's go ahead and do a free end here on this one. And again, there's no real rhyme or reason to where I'm putting these guys.
I'm just trying to find an open area, place them, and we're good to go. Go to the free end here. And I think I've got them all adjusted.
Just one more quick look over. Just to make sure that you got them all how you want them, which I do. I'm going to go ahead, zoom extents, control S, save the file.
In the next video, we'll be going ahead and tagging and adjusting our lighting fixture tags, and then we'll be done with the first and second floor lighting plans. See you then.