Lighting
Creating a Point Light or Spotlight Tool
1. Click View tab Palettes panel Tool Palettes. (Find) 2. In the drawing, select a point light or spotlight whose properties you want to use for the new tool. 3. Drag the light to the active tool palette. The new light tool retains all of the ...
Creating a Point Light in Photometric Workflow
1. Click Visualize tab Lights panel (expanded) Lighting Units drop-down American Lighting Units (find) or International Lighting Units (find). Photometric lighting is enabled, and American or International lighting units is set. 2. Click ...
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 ...
About Sun and Sky Simulation
A special light is available to simulate the effect of sunlight or moonlight. It can be used in conjunction with sky simulation to provide a dramatic background and show how the shadows cast by a structure affect the surrounding area. Sunlight A ...
About Weblights
A weblight (web) is a 3D representation of the light intensity distribution of a light source. Weblights can be used to represent anisotropic (non-uniform) light distributions derived from data provided by manufacturers of real-world lights. This ...
About Spotlights
A spotlight distribution casts a focused beam of light like a flashlight, a follow spot in a theater, or a headlight. A spotlight emits a directional cone of light. You can control the direction of the light and the size of the cone. In the standard ...
About Point Lights
Point Lights A normal point light does not target an object, but illuminates everything around it. Point lights can be used for general lighting effects and simulate lighting sources such as candles and light bulbs. A target point light has ...
Choosing Natural or Artificial Light for your Renderings
The guidelines for lighting used by photographers, filmmakers, and stage designers can help you set up the lighting for scenes. Your choice of lighting depends on whether your scene simulates natural or artificial illumination. Naturally lit scenes, ...
About Lighting
Default Lighting When there are no lights in a scene, the scene is rendered with default lighting. Default lighting is derived from one or two distant light sources that follow the viewpoint as you orbit around the model. All faces in the model are ...
Applying Materials
Applying MaterialsThe materials for a drawing can be changed using the Apply Materials interface. To access the interface, click on the Visual Style menu icon the tool strip, and then click on the Change Materials icon. The Apply Materials interface ...