Working with Lighting Settings
Set a Drawing to Photometric Lighting
Choose one of the following:
- To enable International lighting units, click Visualize tab Lights panel Lighting Units drop-down International Lighting Units.
- To enable American lighting units, click Visualize tab Lights panel Lighting Units drop-down American Lighting Units.
Starting with Toolbox 2016-based products, the renderer calculates all standard lights as photometric lights. It is recommended to update all standard lights in a scene to photometric lights. Starting with Toolbox 2017-based products, you can no longer set a drawing to standard lighting.
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