If the object belongs to the wall category the light should host.
Revit wall light host on column.
On the ribbon verify that.
Convert between hosted wall face ceiling floor and non hosted families in revit january 30 2017 january 1 2018 luke johnson fellow expert elite karam baki has posted an interesting workaround for converting between differently hosted revit families.
Painfully architectural walls in a host model often occlude the cut pattern settings for structural columns in a linked model.
Open the family in family editor and save or load for your actual project.
Link that file into a new blank mep project and use copy monitor to copy the light family into the new project.
You may have to tab around to get to the correct face but it can be done.
As it s being fixed to the wall i ve set it up as a wall based family.
If you build the light as a face based family it can be placed on any face of any object.
I believe this is what you are wanting.
All three views are copies.
The revit files we offer are developed with flexibility in mind.
No wall material isnot relvant in hosting.
In the type selector select a fixture type.
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To place a lighting fixture in a view in the project browser expand views all floor plans and double click the view where you want to place the lighting fixture.
Only 1 is visible.
In the first view both lights are placed in the project.
I ve had someone going round placing these families in the model and all was going great until we came to one that is actually being fixed to a column and not a wall.
I see that in the liight family a 2d symbol is included.
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If you have mep you can create a new file place your wall and light and save.
Convert a hosted family to face based or non hosted family this is a short excerpt from revit.
Hi all i have a family of a fitting which is being mounted on a number of walls in my building.
Click systems tabelectrical panel lighting fixture.
You may be able to see the edges of the structural columns but any view overrides to the revit links tab and even filters do not show the structural column cut pattern.
Hereunder i placed both families in a project.
It gets extremely finicky if you are trying to host a recessed light on objects thicker than a typical ceiling though.
For more details on what you can copy and monitor in revit see about copy monitor.
The copy monitor process converts all the families to face based.
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