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0:02We have arrived at lesson four of module
0:04one, which is all about streamlining
0:06your drawing process as a solo designer
0:08or even as a studio team. In our last
0:10lesson, we created a furniture and
0:12finished floor plan and reviewed some
0:13methods that help you create your
0:15drawing sets faster to save you valuable
0:17time. Today, we are taking things a step
0:19further and we're going to learn how to
0:20create lighting and power plans right
0:22within Rayon, which as we know by now is
0:24faster, clearer, and more streamlined
0:26than traditional CAD programs. We're
0:28going to cover everything from the
0:29essentials, so think layers, blocks,
0:31aligning fixtures, all the way to more
0:33advanced techniques like creating a
0:35legend, planning switch circuits, adding
0:37notes and dimensions, and even setting
0:39up a spec sheet. By the end of this,
0:40you'll have a professional quality
0:42electrical drawing that's build ready
0:44and clientfriendly. Don't forget, you
0:46can download the free drawing set
0:47template linked below for you to follow
0:48along. Plus, it's fully editable, so you
0:50can adapt it to your own projects and
0:52build a scalable workflow for your
0:53studio. And if you want more
0:55personalized guidance, you can actually
0:56book a one-on-one demo session using the
0:58link below. Finally, if you are enjoying
1:00this series, please like, subscribe, and
1:03drop a comment with any questions or
1:04takeaways. I would love to hear how you
1:06are applying these lessons to your own
1:07workflow. Let's dive in. Let's just zoom
1:09in here to our architectural lighting
1:11and electrical plan, which we're going
1:13to focus on today. If you are not
1:15totally familiar, um, an architectural
1:18lighting and electrical plan is a
1:20detailed drawing that shows the
1:21placement of lighting fixtures, power
1:23outlets, switches, wiring paths, all
1:26within a space. Its purpose is to guide
1:28the installation team, whether it's
1:30electricians or contractors, so they can
1:32implement the design intent accurately.
1:35Now, depending on your project's scope
1:36and complexity, lighting and electrical
1:38plans might be combined into a single
1:41drawing, or they might be separated. In
1:43this tutorial, we are just going to
1:44create one comprehensive plan covering
1:46both aspects. Let's walk through how to
1:49produce a clean, professional lighting
1:51and power floor plan. And along the way,
1:53I will share some best practices to
1:55ensure all stakeholders, designers,
1:57builders, electricians, everyone is
1:59aligned on fixture types and locations.
2:02We will go ahead and just start in a
2:04blank model canvas with our floor plan
2:07and we are going to create a lighting
2:10layer. So over here I have just gone
2:12from our presentation space into our
2:14floor plan. So we've got a model our
2:16model space here. Like I said, I've
2:18turned off my annotations, um the
2:20garden, the topo, um anything that's
2:23kind of like going to be a distraction.
2:24We do probably want to leave the
2:26furniture on because it will help
2:27determine where some of these lights
2:28will be placed. So like I said, let's go
2:30ahead and start by adding a new layer
2:32for lighting. So I'm just going to hit
2:34the plus button over here in layers and
2:37click layer. And I will just call this
2:39lighting. Now, you can also have nested
2:42layers within this layer um just by
2:44creating a layer and dragging it under
2:46the lighting layer. So, if you wanted to
2:48have it broken up into specific types of
2:51lighting um or for instance, we are
2:53going to add in a nested layer right
2:55now. Um just as kind of like a uh
2:58transparent overlay, uh just to kind of
3:01like ghost this floor plan out a little
3:03bit. Um so, let me just show you how to
3:05do that. We will just go ahead and hit
3:06the plus button and go to layer. And
3:09then I'm going to just call it um let's
3:10call it ghost background.
3:13And then I'm just going to drag that
3:15right into my lighting layer over here.
3:19And now you can see that it's kind of
3:20like a sub layer within that layer. Now
3:24on that ghost background layer, I'm just
3:26going to create a zone. So I'll just
3:28click zone down here and I'll show you
3:30what we're going to do. Basically what
3:31we're going to do is we're going to just
3:33create a shape here. And right now it's
3:36making it a
3:38wood shape. Um, but we'll change that
3:40here in a second. So, uh, we just want
3:43to basically make this a white box. So,
3:45instead of the texture here, we're just
3:47going to go to a solid fill and just
3:49make it white. Um, and now you can see
3:51that we can't really see anything
3:52beyond. However, we can easily uh make
3:55that a little bit more transparent. So,
3:57just adjust this right here. And you can
3:59see that that's just starting to kind of
4:00gray out the background. Now, because
4:03this ghost layer is on our lighting
4:05layer, when we turn off the lighting
4:07layer, it is going to take that ghost
4:09box off. So, make sure that that ghost
4:12background is underneath the lighting
4:13layer. We do not want a stroke on this.
4:16So, I'm just going to remove the stroke
4:17here. And now, this is basically just
4:20like a box sitting on top of everything.
4:22Um, and we can even make it a little bit
4:24more ghosty if we want. So, if I turn
4:27that ghost layer off, you can see that
4:28it gets crisp. And then if I turn it
4:30back on, you can see that we do have
4:31that transparency. Now, before we go any
4:34further, we should also go ahead and
4:36lock this layer. So, locking the layer
4:38allows me to still be able to affect uh
4:41other properties in uh this model space,
4:45but it does lock that ghosted box, if
4:49you will. So, let's go ahead and lock
4:50that. And that will just ensure that we
4:52don't accidentally edit or move it.
4:54Next, we want to start thinking about
4:56our symbols, our lighting symbols. So,
4:58Rayon makes this super easy because they
5:00do have a block library filled with over
5:0310,000 blocks. So, if we go over here to
5:06our block library and we just scroll
5:08down, we can go look for lighting
5:10fixtures and lighting symbols. I'm going
5:12to go to our lighting symbols because
5:14what we want to do first is grab a
5:16lighting legend. Uh they actually
5:18already have some pre-made for us for uh
5:22the UK, the EU, and the US. So, I'm just
5:25going to type in legend in our little
5:27search bar here, and we'll see them pop
5:29up. Now, I am working from the US, so we
5:32are just going to drag and drop the US
5:34legend in here. It's going to come in
5:36real tiny, but we can easily just scale
5:39that up. And we're just going to dock it
5:42over here. Just kind of get it to a good
5:44scale that we want. And what makes this
5:48so easy is that now, not only is my
5:51legend made, but I can also grab these
5:54symbols from here and just copy and
5:56paste them throughout the drawing um to
5:59start populating my lighting. In order
6:01to kind of make these lighting symbols
6:03stand out on our lighting plan, just to
6:04kind of help us visually see a
6:06difference between these and, you know,
6:08our furniture, I do want to make these
6:10red or some sort of like color that will
6:12stand out. Um, you can always go back
6:14and change that easily just by editing
6:16the style. But just for the visual
6:18purposes here, I'm going to go into this
6:19block that we've imported and just
6:21select. Um, and we'll just go ahead and
6:24edit this to be uh this like reddish
6:27color that we have um or the orang-ish
6:30color. And then you can kind of go
6:31through these symbols and just basically
6:34double click them,
6:37select them, and then you can just ey
6:39the style that you like. So, if I wanted
6:41that to be that orangey color, I can
6:43just eye drop um the style that I like.
6:45So, you can just rinse and repeat that.
6:47I'm going to do that real quick here,
6:48and then I'll meet you right back.
6:54So, I'm just wrapping up here. And
6:56again, it seems a little bit daunting at
6:58first um with some of this stuff, but
7:00once you set it up one time, then it's
7:02like good to go forever. And again, like
7:04you can just see, I'm just picking my
7:06styles just once I find a good one, then
7:08I just ey drop it. um and apply it to
7:10the rest of them. I am going to select
7:12all of my text as well and make it the
7:15same orangey color just to be
7:17consistent.
7:22So, in order to start placing our
7:25fixtures, we're going to go over here to
7:27this block and copy out uh whichever
7:30symbol we want. So, for instance, I'm
7:32going to start with some can lights. So,
7:33I'm just going to copy this and get out
7:35of my block. And then I will paste it.
7:38And you can see that it's plopped it out
7:39here. Uh we are going to move it over
7:42here to our plan and just place it
7:45wherever the first uh block would be.
7:47Now I can tell that this is dumping this
7:50on a different layer that I don't want.
7:52So let's make sure we move that up to
7:54our lighting layer. I can see my first
7:56light has been placed. And now that it's
7:58over here, I can just kind of copy and
7:59paste it anywhere else. So uh maybe we
8:03bring this, you know, over here to the
8:04hallway. We've got a couple here in the
8:07hallway. Okay. And I'll show you here in
8:08a second, too, how we can add some grid
8:10lines to uh kind of make sure that these
8:13are aligned to certain elements. So,
8:17just start kind of populating. Um once
8:20we get a few of these in here, we'll add
8:22some little grid lines to kind of help
8:24guide us. You can see too that these do
8:27kind of like snap to each other, which
8:28is really nice. So, I also actually am
8:31going to go ahead and lock everything
8:33else, too, because I do not want to be
8:35able to move anything here. Um, I just
8:38want to be able to move my lights. So,
8:40I'm just going to keep copying these.
8:42And, um, once you get a few of these
8:44placed where you like them, then let's
8:46put in some grid lines to kind of help,
8:49um, guide these decisions. So, for
8:51instance, if we want to make sure that
8:53this one is centered in the room, we can
8:55just go down here and grab ourselves a
8:58line and just kind of draw the line in
9:02the space. And we'll want to make sure
9:03that it's maybe like a dashed line. So,
9:06um, if we already have that style in
9:08here, it looks like we've got some
9:10dashed lines. Maybe we'll grab that one.
9:12So, again, just kind of throwing that in
9:15there. Using my eyropper to grab the
9:18other style. And then I need to move
9:20this light to be centered there. And now
9:23you can see that that is showing um that
9:26it is centered. You can also add any
9:28text that you need to to further explain
9:31that. And again, just make sure that
9:33you're drawing all of this in your
9:34lighting layer um to make sure later
9:37when we put these on our presentation
9:39sheet that we can um you know turn all
9:42of this lighting information on or off
9:44if needed. So, over into this hallway,
9:47maybe we'd want to draw um a grid line
9:51in the center of this space.
9:54And again, we'll make it that nice like
9:58transparent dash. And then same goes
10:02down here.
10:04We'll do a nice little center line. This
10:08can kind of like help guide your
10:10placement of um different fixtures
10:13because right now we're just kind of
10:14throwing them in here. This can help us
10:17get a little bit more specific. And it's
10:18not just good for you as the designer,
10:20it's good for the contractor as well. So
10:22now we can go down and grab our
10:24dimension tool and start adding in our
10:27dimensions. Now we can make sure that
10:28this is this chained is checked down
10:31here. It's on. Um and that way we can
10:34start doing dimensions like this.
10:38kind of in a row. And so now all of
10:40these dimensions might not equal each
10:42other, but if you want them to be
10:47equidistant,
10:48um, you can always override the text
10:52here. So you can just make this say
10:54equal
10:56and so on and so forth. Just make sure
10:58that you have some sort of dimension
10:59that the contractor can start from so
11:02they're not just making these equal
11:04equal equal in the middle of nowhere.
11:06you know, maybe you would want to have
11:08uh this dimension set. So maybe we
11:11definitely want that one to be 6 and 1/2
11:14ft, but then the rest of these are going
11:15to be equal set off from each other. And
11:17then of course you can always change um
11:20the style as well. So if you uh want to
11:23hold down your shift key or just do one
11:24and then do your eyropper tool, that's
11:26fine, too. Um and then you can select uh
11:30your style or change your style here.
11:33Maybe we want it to be that same kind of
11:35like orangey uh red color. Maybe our
11:39stroke is going to be the orangey red
11:41color. And um that's kind of how that
11:44starts shaping up. So these grid lines
11:46help us kind of align our lights with
11:49our architectural elements. Um and then
11:52coordinate that with our reflected
11:54ceiling plan. Now, when you're placing
11:55these, you also want to consider, you
11:57know, color temperature, whether they're
11:59warm, neutral, cool, and you want to
12:02avoid any like major shadow areas um or
12:05any like awkward fixture placements. So,
12:07with that in mind, let's go ahead and
12:09add in a few other types of lighting.
12:12So, I want to go back to this little
12:13bathroom space over here, and let's just
12:15add in some suspended uh fixtures over
12:18these um sinks right here. So, I'm just
12:22going to go ahead and go into our uh
12:24block over here again. Double click and
12:27copy myself a suspended light. So, we'll
12:30escape out of there. And I'm just going
12:33to paste it on my page. Move it on over.
12:37And we'll just add in two of these right
12:40above the sink. So, just wherever we
12:43want to place that. Again, I can see
12:44it's coming in on the wrong layer. So,
12:47let's just move that up here. And once
12:49we have that on the right layer, now you
12:51can see that it is a little bit um more
12:53crisp. So we can just kind of, you know,
12:56place that right over here. Maybe even a
12:59little bit further back. And then just
13:01go ahead and copy and paste and put one
13:03right up there. And now we've got um two
13:07suspended lights in there. Moving on to
13:10the bedroom. Maybe we want some
13:12wall-mounted fixtures on either side of
13:15the bed. So, let's go over here and see
13:18if we can find a good wall-mounted
13:20fixture. Let's use this guy right here.
13:23I'm just going to click in there. Copy
13:25that and paste it out. Again, I want to
13:28make sure it's on my lighting layer. So,
13:30dragging that up. And we will just move
13:33this over here.
13:36And I'm just going to rotate it. And
13:39we've got it looks like we've got like a
13:41little lamp there, but um we'll just
13:43place this here anyway. And I'm just
13:46going to copy and paste again on the
13:47other side of the bed. And there we've
13:50got um two of our light fixtures in
13:53there. So again, this is just like a
13:55rinse and a repeat uh process for your
13:58entire plan. Next, we want to consider
14:00the switches and circuits and the whole
14:04like functional planning of this
14:06electrical plan. So, um, switches and
14:08sockets are usually placed logically
14:11based on like how a user, um, uses the
14:14space, how the room functions, um, entry
14:17exit points, and we are able to use some
14:20shortcuts to efficiently just rotate and
14:22duplicate those symbols here in Rayon,
14:24kind of like we've done with our
14:26lighting symbols already. So, if I zoom
14:28in over here and go down and look at our
14:31switch symbols, they might look a little
14:33bit different depending on where you
14:35are. Um, but I'm just to keep things
14:38simple, I'm just going to grab um this
14:41uh little switch symbol. So, let's paste
14:43that. And we'll bring it over to our
14:46plan. Now, I am going to place our first
14:50one. Let's start in the bedroom here.
14:52And we'll just kind of keep it in this
14:53small space. And I am going to uh again
14:57make sure that this is on the right
14:59layer. We will drag that up. And I'm
15:02going to rotate this. And I'm just going
15:05to place it right when you walk in the
15:07door basically. So that's pretty typical
15:09is right when you walk in the door. Um
15:11the switch for the lights would be right
15:12there. Um there might be some other
15:14logical places to put them. Um but
15:17that's what we're going to go with. So
15:18I'm going to just then copy and paste
15:21this and uh move this one over to my
15:25bathroom. And we'll just use our rotate
15:28tool. Um place it on whichever wall
15:31seems like most logical. And those are
15:34just going to be the switches that
15:35control the space. And again, just rinse
15:38and repeat that with any other space
15:40that you have. So, you know, for this
15:42hallway, I would maybe have a switch on,
15:45you know, this wall. And then I would
15:47also probably have a switch on the
15:49opposite wall. So, you know, copy and
15:52paste that over here. So, just kind of
15:54continue doing that in your space with
15:57uh what makes sense. There are also
15:59other symbols over in our um block that
16:02would indicate maybe it is a two-way,
16:05three-way, four-way um different types
16:07of switches. So, just make sure to keep
16:09that in mind when you are placing them.
16:11And then once you get all of your
16:13switches placed, that's when we can draw
16:15our fun little squiggly lines to
16:17indicate which switch controls which
16:19light fixture. So again, let's make sure
16:22that we are on our lighting layer and we
16:24can go down here and just grab a curved
16:28line and just kind of like start with
16:30our switch. And then you're just going
16:33to curve it to the uh different fixtures
16:38that it is going to affect. And then of
16:41course you can always change your style.
16:43You can also always double click in here
16:45and kind of like move your um different
16:48vertices, make them more curvy, less
16:51curvy, however you'd like. Let's see
16:53here. Maybe we want the style of this to
16:57be orangey line. So, or maybe we want
17:01like a dashed orangey line. So, let's go
17:03see if we have a dash orangey line in
17:04here. Okay, all the way here at the end
17:06is our dashed orange line. And again, if
17:08you need to create one, all you would do
17:10is um just detach this style and we'll
17:13just create a new one. Um I am going to
17:16make this a dash line. So, we'll go to
17:18add dash. And maybe we want the dash to
17:21be bigger. And that looks good. And if
17:24you like it, then you save it. So, I'm
17:26just going to say dashed
17:29orange. And that has been saved. So, um,
17:34now we're going to continue to do that
17:35for these other, um, fixtures. So, I'm
17:38going to grab that curved line again,
17:41and we'll start with this fixture and
17:44just kind of rope it between these
17:48like that. When you're done with one,
17:51you just kind of hit escape. I'm going
17:52to do the pick style and I'll grab that
17:54orange dash line. And then we're also
17:57going to have this switch control this
17:58light fixture in here. So again, we'll
18:01just grab that curve, start here,
18:04and just kind of like make our little
18:06curve and hit escape. I drop the line,
18:12and there you have it. So again, you
18:15would just continue doing this
18:16throughout your um entire project. So if
18:20you like to add some more guidelines or
18:22information on your sheet, you can
18:24always add a little box um with some
18:27notes. This is just helpful to the
18:29contractor to understand um anything
18:32specific that maybe isn't super clear on
18:34the plan. So, in order to do that, you
18:36would do that similar to how you would
18:38draw a legend. And that would be just by
18:41um selecting your shape and
18:44um you know, going up here and doing the
18:46same kind of thing as we did with our
18:48legend, just adding in a little area um
18:51for your general note. And then you
18:53would just go ahead and add your text
18:55box that would say general notes. And of
18:58course we already have our style that we
19:00have um started. So we'll just eyero
19:03that uh which takes away that work. And
19:06then you just add in more text notes
19:09here. So you know you would just say
19:12like
19:14one note one two note two um that type
19:19of thing. And again, we'll just eye
19:22drop, you know, another style that we
19:23already have. This can just help provide
19:26some more context without making the
19:28drawing even more cluttered. As far as
19:31any other information that you can add,
19:33again, we did talk about dimensions. Um,
19:36you can also add these dimensions on
19:37their own nested layer. So, that could
19:39be a layer that you could turn on and
19:41off within the lighting layer. If there
19:43are any like height dimensions that you
19:45need to note, you could just do that
19:46with um either an annotation right here
19:49on the plan or in your general notes. Um
19:52so down here, Rayon makes it really
19:54easy. They've got um little like leader
19:56lines that you can add. So um for
19:59instance, if we have, let's see here,
20:01these wall-mounted fixtures. I can just
20:03add this little leader line that says
20:05like mount fixtures
20:08at 7T above finish floor. um and just
20:12hit check there. And then if you have a
20:15style or something selected that uh
20:17looks better than this, then you could
20:18just add that in there. You can easily
20:20adjust the placement or the size of it.
20:22Things do kind of start um getting a
20:24little bit messier when you start adding
20:26in annotations. So just kind of be
20:28mindful of that as you're doing that. If
20:30we want to keep that same kind of color,
20:31we can select that there. Maybe our
20:33stroke we want to be the same color as
20:36well. And um if you you know like that
20:38style then you would just save that
20:40style and you would say like you know
20:42orange annotation or something like that
20:44annotation and then um that's saved
20:47within your styles. This kind of helps
20:49keep everything super cohesive. Now to
20:51help clients visualize the products that
20:54we've selected once we have gotten all
20:56of our light fixtures in there. We can
20:57create a little mood board featuring the
21:00lighting fixture references. So we do
21:03this by just using tools that we've
21:05already talked about so far. So like uh
21:07you know our rectangle shape tools um
21:10text and then I will also show you how
21:12to import images here. Now this is all
21:16just done within a separate model space.
21:18So we've got you know our floor plan
21:20that we were just drawing our lighting
21:22information on. Um our specs and our
21:24mood boards are just on a separate model
21:26canvas. But we can then dump this view
21:30with the floor plan view on the same
21:32presentation canvas. So I'll show you
21:34how to do that here in a minute. So in
21:36order to import our uh furniture images,
21:40all you have to do is just go find your
21:41image um probably somewhere on the
21:43internet. Right? So if I like this light
21:46fixture or maybe I've, you know,
21:47selected this light fixture for my
21:49project, all I have to do is just go
21:51ahead and copy that image and go back to
21:54my rayon project. And then I'm just
21:57going to literally paste it and it's
21:59going to just come right in. And you can
22:01just resize it and go ahead and place it
22:03wherever you want to. I've got this nice
22:05little spot here um ready for it to be
22:08placed. Uh another cool thing that you
22:10can do in Rayon is you can actually
22:11remove the background. So if you want to
22:13be able to kind of like stack items on
22:15top of each other, like for a mood board
22:17or something, um we can go to edit image
22:20right here and just say remove
22:21background. And it's going to use AI to
22:24remove the background. It will also
22:25upscale it for you if you'd like if it
22:27comes in at a really low resolution. Um,
22:30you can also make some adjustments over
22:32here. But once you get it the way you
22:33like it, you just hit done. And now you
22:36can see it's can stack neatly on top of
22:38other objects. For right now, I'm just
22:40going to place it right here in our
22:41little lighting fixture setup over here.
22:44You can also use numbers to tag them to
22:48their mate in the floor plan. So, um you
22:52know, if you have lighting type one, uh
22:54and you want to call it out as number
22:56one here on your floor plan, you can
22:58also add that tag um to your lighting
23:00symbol and just say like, you know, this
23:02is lighting type one, this is lighting
23:04type two. And then that kind of like
23:06helps that communication between floor
23:08plan, mood board, legend, and helps kind
23:11of explain everything. You can also see
23:14over here that we can refine the legend
23:16to show the fixture counts, um, optional
23:20specs such as pricing, delivery times,
23:23and Rayon actually has a tables feature
23:25that can automate and organize this
23:26information super efficiently. We're not
23:29going to dive into that on this class,
23:30but we do dive deeper into that in
23:32another class that's dedicated entirely
23:35to FFN specs. And finally, I know that
23:38was a lot of information, but now we get
23:40to take all of that and put it onto one
23:42presentation page. So, let me go ahead
23:44and show you how to do that from
23:46scratch. So, we will add a page over
23:50here in our presentation space. So, I'm
23:52just going to um click new page and then
23:57it's going to throw a page over here. Um
23:59we are using an A3 page. So, I'm going
24:02to make sure that this page is the right
24:05size. So over here we'll just put a
24:08three.
24:09And once we have the right page size,
24:12now we can add our view. So in order to
24:15um add in our lighting plan first, let's
24:18go ahead and go to the plus sign over
24:20here and we'll go to view from floor
24:23plan because we want to add in our floor
24:24plan view. Now, if it comes in at the
24:26right scale, great. If not, you can
24:28always change that over here. Um right
24:31under scale. Mine did come in at the
24:32right scale, so we'll just leave it as
24:34is. Um, I'm also going to hold down my
24:36command key and just kind of scrunch
24:38this in a little bit just to keep it
24:40kind of uh contained here. And then we
24:43will tell this what layers we want on
24:45and off. So, we are just going to make
24:47sure that we start turning off things
24:49that we do not need. So, for instance,
24:52like the topography,
24:54uh, the garden. I think we probably want
24:57to leave furniture on. There's probably
24:58some annotations that we don't
25:01necessarily need. And I think that's
25:03looking pretty nice. nice and clean. So,
25:05you can obviously see all of our light
25:08fixtures. If we had any sort of notes or
25:10anything, um you'd be able to see those
25:12because those would be on our light
25:14layer. Now, we can also add in that
25:17little spec sheet um right here to fill
25:19the page. So, to do that, we'll just hit
25:21the new um view and then FF and E specs
25:26and mood boards. And you can see that
25:28that's placed um a view on here.
25:30Obviously, this is not the scale that we
25:33want. But if we double click in here and
25:35actually just like zoom in, we can get
25:39it looking the way we want it. So maybe
25:42we want it like about that scale. And
25:45then I'll hit done. And we'll do that
25:46same hold down the command um just to
25:50kind of scrunch this in because we don't
25:51need to see anything else in this view.
25:53We just want to see this um little spec
25:57sheet that we set up. So now we've got
26:00that here. And you know, in theory, your
26:05numbers of your lights would align with
26:08any numbers that you have called out on
26:10the floor plan. And then this sheet um
26:13tells the entire story for the
26:15contractor, the electrician, whoever is
26:17doing the work. Of course, you probably
26:18have your title block in here, too. So
26:20eventually, what your sheet should end
26:22up looking like is this um sheet that we
26:25have here and our drawing template set
26:26that we're using. Now finally we prepare
26:29the drawing set for export by setting
26:31our scale and paper size in the page
26:33panel and organizing multiple layouts as
26:36needed. So our export options are PDF,
26:39PNG, DWG and DXF. For collaboration, we
26:43generally um generate public sharing
26:46links or invite team members as viewers
26:48or editors making real-time feedback and
26:51coordination across disciplines more
26:53seamless. So, in order to share this
26:55file, all we need to do is either click
26:58our share button over here where you can
27:00just share this with other team members
27:01and then make them either an editor or a
27:04viewer. Or if you want to have a hard
27:06copy, you can go over into your pages um
27:09over here. And we are just going to hit
27:11export. And you can export all of your
27:14pages into whichever format you'd like.
27:16I typically do PDF. You can adjust the
27:18file size. And then you'll just hit
27:20export. and then it will export to
27:22wherever you want to save it. That's a
27:24wrap for class 4 of the interior design
27:26playbook. By now, you have learned how
27:27to create a complete lighting and power
27:29plan right inside Rayon. From placing
27:31the fixtures and switches to building a
27:33legend, adding dimensions, and even
27:35setting up our spec sheet, these
27:36drawings not only guide contractors on
27:39site, but also give your clients
27:40confidence that every detail has been
27:42thought through. Don't forget, you can
27:43download that free editable template
27:45linked below to save you time and keep
27:47your workflow consistent. And if you'd
27:48like extra support, you can book that
27:50one-on-one demo for personalized
27:51guidance. If you're enjoying this
27:52series, please like, subscribe, and
27:54comment with your biggest takeaways and
27:56any questions that we can answer for
27:58you. I'd love to hear how you're
27:59applying these tools to your own
28:00projects. Up next, I'm so excited. We're
28:02going to be creating sections and
28:03elevations. So, stay tuned and I'll see
28:05you in the next lesson.
28:09[Music]

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