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JNDesign
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Hi Paul

When we are putting say mesh emitters with IES in our scene, does revit take care of normals ?
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JNDesign wrote:Hi Paul

When we are putting say mesh emitters with IES in our scene, does revit take care of normals ?
My memory is not that good with this, but I think IES emitters always point down. So regardless of the emitter direction, the light will point down, and you adjust the "orientation" pin to direct the light.

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Correction - the IES light at 0, 0, 0 orientation will either be directly UP or DOWN (depending on the general direction of the normal).
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thanks
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