Rope Lights under soffits

[mtldesigns]

I don't know about where you all are, but here in the panhandle of Florida, having permanent LED lights (like ropes I guess) installed all around the houses soffit is a thing.   Yu can change the colors year round, and as my neighbor does, keeps his white for security.  Anyways I have a request to add this to a home that has multiple levels with different gables, planes, etc.  Any suggestions on how to make this work?  It also is considered one fixture..  

[PitMan71]

Would an emissive poly line work for what you are trying to do?

[DBCooper]

You could just use rope lights as long as you don't need to go up at an angle (like to follow a gable).  Rope lights can only be in a horizontal plane.  It would be nice if they could follow any path just like a molding polyline.

 

Other that that, an emissive molding polyline might work although it will glow the same all along the path.   Maybe you could use a symbol for the molding that had alternating parts set to emissive?

 

[Joe_Carrick]

Maybe a "Distribution Line" ?  The light fixture would need to be "ceiling mounted".  I think that woul work.

 

Edited 19 hours ago by Joe_Carrick

[mtldesigns]

I have some minor changes to the elevation after receipt of comments this AM, but the jest is the attached.  The lady of the house likes to decorate for the holidays.. all of them, the man of the house is tired of it.. lol.  So this is a win-win for them both, she gets her lights and he doesn't have to keep putting them up to take right down...

 

9 hours ago, PitMan71 said:

Would an emissive poly line work for what you are trying to do?

 

8 hours ago, DBCooper said:

Other that that, an emissive molding polyline might work although it will glow the same all along the path

Sounds like fun huh!  I don't have this model up to work on at the moment, finishing a small home tonight.  Throw this out there, do you think maybe as another frieze board, but emissive like 1/2" tall right up under the soffit?

 

8 hours ago, Joe_Carrick said:

Maybe a "Distribution Line"

What's a distribution line Joe?

Edited 11 hours ago by mtldesigns

[Joe_Carrick]

Build > Distributed Objects > Polyline Distribution Path.