topic Re: Power Sockets and Light Switches in Libraries & objects

Power Sockets and Light Switches

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 11:31:29 GMT

Hi, i seem to be having some trouble finding an elements that i can use as a power socket and as a light switch. I've seen the ones in "2D" but they are only usable in plan view and i need to make some renders. I usually do my renders in Artlantis so it's not like i know how to model them.

Thanks

Re: Power Sockets and Light Switches

Erich — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:54:33 GMT

Try these Electrigon

Re: Power Sockets and Light Switches

vistasp — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 09:24:12 GMT

If the symbols in plan are not required, try this modular Switchplate Object.

Re: Power Sockets and Light Switches

Anonymous — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 14:37:28 GMT

Picking up AC for the first time in 10 years, so apologies if I'm missing something obvious! Is there no intelligent object for sockets and switches? I can't find it within the standard library, but it seems like a glaring omission...

On the residential work we do, we use interior elevations (and now Visualisation with TM) where we'd like to locate sockets and switches, while also having them show as electrical symbols in plan. I realised that light objects can be changed to show as symbols in plan, and we can set up the MVO to show them on RCP's; but I can't find anything for sockets and switches? Would also be really helpful if there was a way to link switches to lights, for production of simple electrical plans...

Thanks for any help

Re: Power Sockets and Light Switches

Nader Belal — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 14:52:38 GMT

@SiRo_Arch

Adding my two cents, and the most impressive is that there is no minimal number of standard parameters for electric current circuits.

Re: Power Sockets and Light Switches

Ralph Wessel — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 15:16:17 GMT

SiRo_Arch wrote:
On the residential work we do, we use interior elevations (and now Visualisation with TM) where we'd like to locate sockets and switches, while also having them show as electrical symbols in plan. I realised that light objects can be changed to show as symbols in plan, and we can set up the MVO to show them on RCP's; but I can't find anything for sockets and switches? Would also be really helpful if there was a way to link switches to lights, for production of simple electrical plans...

Take a look at the CI Tools Electrical add-on – it should do everything you're looking for.

Re: Power Sockets and Light Switches

Brad Elliott — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 20:39:58 GMT

SiRo- Where are you? Switch US 22 Under custom settings 3D Detail Level change it from off to Detailed. It will update the number of switches in plan to match in 3d. You can also change the switch type between Toggle, rocker and button. Same thing for outlets.

Re: Power Sockets and Light Switches

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 17:23:40 GMT

Thanks for the explanations, I'm planning the work I'll have to do (or have done, that is) for the one of these houses in Greece I want to get for the holidays, and I couldn't find how to deal with power sockets... I'm alright now, it all works.

Re: Power Sockets and Light Switches

Anonymous — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 08:53:56 GMT

Yunker45 wrote:
...I'm planning the work I'll have to do for the one of these houses in Greece ...

Try this smart object for European sockets and switches "Electroblock 1.6"

Re: Power Sockets and Light Switches

Richard Morrison — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 22:17:50 GMT

Ralph wrote:
Take a look at the CI Tools Electrical add-on – it should do everything you're looking for.

Sadly, the one very simple thing it doesn't do is let you change the text for switches. (Maybe receptacles, too.) For example, we need the ability to change the text label "D" (or whatever it is) in a switch to VS (for Vacancy Sensor) or a "3" or "4" (for 3-way or 4-way switch) I sent a support ticket on this and was simply told "it's not possible." I downgraded my subscription as a result, and CI lost hundreds of dollars annually. Too bad, as it would likely take someone like you about 20 minutes to fix, if that.

Re: Power Sockets and Light Switches

Lingwisyer — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 01:23:31 GMT

Richard wrote:
Too bad, as it would likely take someone like you about 20 minutes to fix, if that.

Maybe who ever scripted it did not follow any standards / annotate anything and has since left the company, so no one has been able to figure out how it was done...

Re: Power Sockets and Light Switches

Ralph Wessel — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 08:17:13 GMT

Richard wrote:
Sadly, the one very simple thing it doesn't do is let you change the text for switches. (Maybe receptacles, too.) For example, we need the ability to change the text label "D" (or whatever it is) in a switch to VS (for Vacancy Sensor) or a "3" or "4" (for 3-way or 4-way switch) I sent a support ticket on this and was simply told "it's not possible." I downgraded my subscription as a result, and CI lost hundreds of dollars annually. Too bad, as it would likely take someone like you about 20 minutes to fix, if that.

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding the problem, but the labelling options are quite extensive and should easily solve that - take a look under the label panel in the object settings:

Re: Power Sockets and Light Switches

Richard Morrison — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 13:39:25 GMT

Ralph,
That is exactly the issue and how I would have expected it to work. However, this did not work with the U.S. switches (the label was apparently hard-coded), and tech support merely confirmed that there was no way to get it to work. I didn't even get a "oh, this is a bug, we'll get it fixed." You should be able to find the issue & response in your past support logs. All of my closed support tickets have evaporated off of the CI website, so I can't help with this.

Re: Power Sockets and Light Switches

Ralph Wessel — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 13:58:02 GMT

Richard wrote:
Ralph,
That is exactly the issue and how I would have expected it to work. However, this did not work with the U.S. switches (the label was apparently hard-coded), and tech support merely confirmed that there was no way to get it to work. I didn't even get a "oh, this is a bug, we'll get it fixed." You should be able to find the issue & response in your past support logs. All of my closed support tickets have evaporated off of the CI website, so I can't help with this.

The localised objects all use the same underlying scripts for the UI - they just vary in how they render the 2D/3D representation to suit each country. Therefore the labelling is exactly the same for all countries (a snapshot of the US version is attached).

I'm disappointed to hear about the support response. If you could PM details of roughly when this occurred I'll see if I can follow up with the support team to discover how/why that happened. They should have been able to point out that it works exactly as you expected - we don't have hard-coded labels for electrical components.

Re: Power Sockets and Light Switches

AEP - Jochen Eggert — Sun, 03 Apr 2022 08:54:51 GMT

The German Subscription Service ArchicaRd offers smart gdl sockets and light switches to add into the library.

Re: Power Sockets and Light Switches

qingdom — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 17:55:04 GMT

So we are basically almost 2023 and still can't find a basic outlet/socket in the standard library for AC26?

Re: Power Sockets and Light Switches

nhelal — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 06:32:12 GMT

Sadly, I have to agree... These are very basic objects to include: power sockets (1 gang / 2 gang / 3 gang), IT sockets, light switch (single, double, triple)... So basically the electrical drawings can only be done in 2D.