Revit: How to run Lighting analysis

Autodesk Support

Oct 8, 2023


Products and versions covered


Issue:

Downloading the pluging to get Lighting analysis tool for Revit the user interface for the Tool is different then what is shown on the video presentation in the Lighting Analysis overview site, which gives just a little insight of how exactly an analysis is done with the tool.

How to run Lighting analysis for a Revit project?

 

Solution:

Please, follow these steps to run a Lighting analysis on your model:

  1. Set project Location in Manage > Location
  2. Go to Ribbon > Analyze > Lighting > Scroll down to “Update”
  3. Click on the Update and Continue to run analysis
  4. Select Study Settings and click on "Start Analysis" when you are ready with your settings
  5. Revit will report that your "Model is uploading, do not close the project until the data is uploaded." > Cilck OK.
  6. Revit will report that "Daylighting analysis is uploaded and running in the cloud. You can keep working while it runs in the background. Notification will appear when the analysis is complete." > Click OK.
  7. Accept the results.
  8. Go to Ribbon > Analyze > Lighting > Lighting in order to generate report from the most recent Lighting analysis

Products:

Revit Product Family;

Versions:

2016;


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