LED light strip - can't find it?

[cocoloco]

Hello! As we use LED strips almost everywhere,: every cabinetry, every builds in, every shelf, ceilings, and all,  I am looking for archicad object to add them. (ideally they look linear and they can be adjusted in thickness and lenght and represent in floor plan/elevations per settings. 

Until now I have been adding them into elevations and floor plan manually (drawing lines) to indicate them but it no longer works this way for me as it's a full time job and hard to keep track on it, especially if something change, I have to adjust both floor plan & elevations manually. 

I have seen many posts about led strip lights, but the problem is I can't find any object in archicad library or CI tools library.  I tried searching led light, led strip, strip.... and nothing comes out. 

Below is how I need them to look (I really mostly care just to indicate them) are and I need this to be a light object so it reflect both in elevations and floor plan as per settings. 

  

Thanks! 

[cocoloco]

I feel like anything would be better than managing 2D as long as it is easy to adjust in lenght and heights, and is light object - because there is just so many led lights.  I will try meanwhile the railway or beam. (whichever will be quicker to customize .

We are using 3ds max (I model in archicad but it is finished/detailed there as far as visuals, and archicad is used for documentation). Speaking of rendering engine, do you work in some free edgine inside of archicad that you would recommend? (it would be cool for ordinary rooms that we don't render in 3ds max and I just need on the go... I tried the generic renderings in archicad but 

[cocoloco]

potentionally - can the line be customized to color and type of line (dotted etc.)? And if so, would it show also from top view or just elevation? 

[cocoloco]

thank you SOOO much! could you share here the link? Would love to give it Like 😍

[cocoloco]

1 feels best but I get it. 😄 I will be looking into the railing and bean options today and will figure the light later. 

[jl_lt]

Hi. with more reason a  humble beam would be more than enough, just make sure you put them in their corresponding layer and with corresponding ID and you wont have any problem. with the adecuate layer combination, youll be able to see them in elevation, section and plan, with the color and linetype you need.  In max you just assing any light emiting material to it and that would be it. 

For reasonably good and super fast renders, i cannot recommend twinmotion enough.

[cocoloco]

Hello! I have tried the beams! howeverrr! the aesthetic setting. I have set it up that both floor plan and elevations shows the dashed orange line. It works ok for floor plan but in elevations it shows solid line instead. I checked elevations setting view, model views, and I have no overrides are on. 

 Could you share if you have some magic setting that could show the beams on elevations dashed instead of solid?

 

[Emre Senoglu]

Here's a complex profile I've done for LED Strip: Complex Profile LED - download 

It can be used with a column or beam. I found this to be the most useful way of inserting led strips. 

I've also done a GDL version of it, but as far as I can see it's kind of half-baked, so don't expect too much: GDL LED - download 

It is a light object, so it's not in the objects toolbox but rather in the lamps. I can try to finish the GDL object if there is enough need for it 😊

[Patrick M]

I almost always only need this for plan views; so a line type is sufficient. if a 3d object is necessary; it would be very simple to script a cube or even just model/save as, or use a beam (complex profile if you really need it to be LOD 350+)

[Barry Kelly]

Elevations are just axonometric 3D views, and there is no such thing as dashed lines in 3D.

So if you are using a beam to represent the lighting strip, you can not show it as dashed.

You would have to place a separate dashed line.

Or you could script a lighting strip object and that would allow you to script a dashed line in 3D.

Which is actually a trick of dividing the entire line into short lines with gaps.

But if you are not into GDL scripting, I would just add your own dashed line in the elevation.

No, it will not be linked to the light object/beam, but at least you can easily represent what you want to see.

Barry.

[Yves]

With a Graphic Overrides