Placing a Lighting Schedule
Quick video
You can easily generate a schedule of lighting fixtures, wires, and equipment you've used in a lighting design you've created using our Lighting Manager. You can place a Lighting Schegule within either Model Space or a Paper Space Layout tab.
How to Place a Lighting Schedule
Open our Lighting tool:
F/X Site ribbon, Lighting flyout
F/X Site menu, Lighting option
GRAPHICS toolbar
Graphics RefNotes toolbar
or type FX_Lighting_Manager in the Command line
The Lighting Manager will open.
Click Schedule.
The Lighting Schedule is now powered by our Reference Notes (RefNotes) Schedule feature, which we improved with some major updates as of August 2024. More information
1. Select a destination for the schedule:
- Table: Place the schedule in your drawing as a table.
- Gridlines non-plot: Check this option if you want the lines separating the table cells to be non-plot. Uncheck this option if you want the table lines to plot.
We've replaced the Drawing and Table options with this single Table option and the Gridlines non-plot checkbox. If you select Gridlines non-plot, the schedule will place with gray gridlines that will not show up when you plot your drawing (essentially the same as the former Drawing option). Deselecting this option will result in a schedule placing as a table with gridlines set to plot (essentially the same as the original Table option). This updated system allows you to edit your schedules much more easily.
- Spreadsheet: Export the schedule to a spreadsheet program such as MS Excel.
2. Options to:
- Include your Entire Palette of lighting equipment in the schedule
- Include lighting equipment from your Xrefs
- List the Detail associated with each piece of lighting equipment
- List the Cost of each piece of lighting equipment
3. List the lighting equipment data fields:
- Below the equipment's description
- In their own columns
Schedule Text in Uppercase (or Upper and Lowercase)
You can control whether the text in any of your schedules in in all uppercase, or in upper and lowercase, from the General Preferences. For instructions, see our Schedule Text in Uppercase article.
This setting will apply to all schedules you place in your drawings, including:
- Plant Schedule
- Irrigation Schedule
- Details Schedule
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Site schedules such as:
- Reference Notes (RefNotes) Schedule
- Lighting Schedule
- Concept Schedule
- Zoning Schedule
- Site Development Schedule
- Grading Schedule
Work Areas and Lighting Schedules
Functioning essentially as drawings within a drawing, Work Areas allow you to divide your site into a number of distinct areas. In this way, you can break up your design into separate regions, phases, scope-of-work requirements, and virtually any other way you can imagine. This feature makes it possible to limit any of your site schedules, including the Lighting Schedule, to specific Work Areas. You can also break up your schedule to show separate summaries of Site Development items in each Work Area. For information on dividing your Site Development schedule (or any other site schedule) in this way, see our Limiting Site Schedules With Work Areas page.
Related Webinars
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Troubleshooting
Issue: You are unable to send your Lighting Schedule to an Excel spreadsheet
Issue: Bad DXF group (10) error when placing lighting equipment
Issue: Text in the Lighting Schedule columns is overlapping
Contact
- Land F/X
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