How to install lighting in eaves

[Tommy Blair]

Some of the ceiling lights do work for eaves too but not the recessed down lights. What I do is copy the recessed light from Chief's library to your Users library. Then open it (open symbol) and make it sit on the floor. Now you can place it and adjust it's height to fit the eaves and manually place it.

[dshall]

Some of the ceiling lights do work for eaves too but not the recessed down lights. What I do is copy the recessed light from Chief's library to your Users library. Then open it (open symbol) and make it sit on the floor. Now you can place it and adjust it's height to fit the eaves and manually place it.

I like Tommy's solution

[Joe Carrick]

I like Tommy's solution

What don't you like about mine? You do know that it's easy to create a single flat ceiling plane to act as the soffit and then break/stretch it all the way around the house. Now you can actually control the material and the lights actually snap right to it?

This also works for cantilevered floors, etc.

[Tommy Blair]

Joe, there's nothing wrong with how you want to do it. I just posted how I have been handling that situation. I have the 6" & 4" recessed cans already set up in my library ready to use whenever I want. All I do is place one and copy it where ever I want.

[dshall]

What don't you like about mine? You do know that it's easy to create a single flat ceiling plane to act as the soffit and then break/stretch it all the way around the house. Now you can actually control the material and the lights actually snap right to it?

This also works for cantilevered floors, etc.

I am not sure if I realized that if I create a ceiling plane in the middle of the desert, the light would snap to it. I will give it a try. But with Tommy's solution, the plane is not necessary, and we already have a soffit created with eave. Tommy's solution is less work.

[mkennedy]

i'm on the fence - i don't like having things drawn that i wouldn't normally display, otherwise I forget they're there, so i'd rather not draw an eave soffit unless i was going to draw it on every job, in which case I'd like it to be automatic?
on the other hand, i don't like manually setting the locations of things that could\should be placing themselves automatically, so i'd rather not calculate\manually enter the clng ht in the light - i will inevitably leave one or two at an incorrect default height and waste 5 minutes scratching my head trying to figure out why I've got no light in that rendered scene.
I'm not on my 'puter rite now, but...I'm gonna try using the roof overhang - isn't that a pline, can't I change it to a clng plane?