Hosting a Revit family to a Linked Ceiling?

miked •
As far as I remember you can host a ceiling hosted lighting fixture to a ceiling in a linked model. Is my memory correct and is that still possible? Because I can't seem to accomplish it. We're able to put a face-based fixture in the linked model ceiling, but can't seem to get the ceiling hosted fixture to take.

Is there a button I need to check? Or am I doing something wrong? Or is it just not possible in Revit?

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Answers (2)

BIM G • 2012

Scott is correct. If you want to use a linked ceiling as host, you have to use a 'face-based' family, not ceiling-based.

Scott, Architect • 2012

I think most of them are face-based.

However if you have Revit 2013 One Box, from the Lighting folder of the library, simply continue to the MEP folder instead of the Architectural folder. The MEP folder contains basically the same fixtures, even with the same names, with one important difference : the MEP fixtures are face-based while the Architectural fixtures are ceiling-based. So hopefully that solves the issue for you.

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