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Adding switches

Adding switches - Revit MEP Tutorial

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Adding switches

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- [Instructor] Well, we have no way to turn these lights on or off, so what I'd like to do is add some switches to our model. I want to roll down to my Ceiling Plan Level 1. I want to zoom into these areas where we have lights and we're going to add some switches. I'm going to go to my Systems tab. Now on my Electrical panel I'm going to click my Device drop-down and I'm going to go down to Lighting. I have an M Lighting Switch Three Way. Now if we hit the drop-down here we'll see we have quite a few of them. So I'm going to come down here and I'm going to grab Door. I'm going to put mine right next to the door. Don't worry about that big, ugly DR, we're going to get rid of that. I'm going to pick a spot, like right about here, and I'm going to hit Escape a couple times. Now these automatically tag themselves, but I'm not a big fan of it. So I'm going to select my lighting switch, I'm going to click on Edit Type, and for my Label right here I'm going to get rid of DR. I'm going to hit…

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