Lighting Options
Lighting Options
Lighting Options
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The Lighting tab will allow
you to adjust settings that are common to accent lighting design.
To set the lighting preferences:
Click on the Lighting
tab.
When automatically sizing lighting wire or cable,
wire must be connected within a set distance of the insertion point
of a fixture or transformer symbol, or the end point of another piece
of wire or cable. The default setting is 3 inches. If
the wire is not connected properly, the software will not consider
it connected to the symbol or another piece of wire. If wire
from two different circuits end within the connection distance, the
software will consider the two circuits to be connected.
The only exception to the rule is at the transformer location. Wire
from two or more circuits can meet within the connection distance
at the insertion point of the transformer symbol. The software
will ignore the connection distance at the transformer.
To change the default distance setting, click on the Wire
Connection Distance drop down menu and click on the distance
of your choice.
In the Symbol Scale
Factors area, type in the desired factor
in the text box associated with each different type of symbol. This
scale factor setting will increase or decrease the size of the symbols
when they are placed on the design screen. To increase or decrease
the size of existing symbols on the design, enter the Symbol Scale
Factors and click on the Apply
button.
Under the Wire Size
Label Settings header, adjust the characteristics for the wire size labels as necessary.
If the Color Code
Wire by Zone check box is enabled when sizing wire using the
Lighting Calculations
command, the color of the wire will be based on the settings under
the Auto Wire Colors area.
If the Color Code Wire by Zone check box is disabled, the wire
will be colored based on the settings in the Wire/Cable
placement command. To set the alternating colors for the wire
zones, click on each color button one time with the left mouse button
to open the Color dialog box.
Select a color and click on the OK
button. There are nine alternating colors used in color coding
each wire zone.
Click on the Close
button to exit the dialog box.
Note:
You can change the line type, width and scale of the
Lighting Wire layer in the
Layer Manager.
The lighting symbol scale factors will automatically
increase or decrease in size based on the output Scale
setting in the Drawing Page Setup
command.
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