That is about all the time I have for now on lights, until next time. All lights can be selected in the model using the Lights in Model palette or in some cases light with the point and spotlights can be selected and manipulated directly in the model using grips. Sunlight is really a specific distant light that allows you to control the time and day of the sun, and its position through longitudinal and latitudinal values. A distant light would be similar to the sun, the angle and direction affects how the light is emitted. AutoCAD 2007 introduced a new way to manage XREFs and to bring up the 'old' XREF Manager, you have to type CLASSICXREF at the command line. A spotlight, would be similar to a flash light as it emits in a specific direction and as the light gets further away from the source it gets dimmer.ĭistant lights are lights that emit light along a specified vector, but the light does not get dimmer the further away from the source that it gets. Tip of the Day AutoCAD 2007 - Where's my old XREF Manager A lot of people using AutoCAD 2007 and above don't like the new XREF Manager, so here's a simple way to get the old one back.
Point lights are lights that emit light in all directions, and are similar to a candle or a common household light bulb and as the light moves further away from the source it gets dimmer. Point, Spotlight, and Distant lights were all available in previous releases of AutoCAD that supported rendering (all the way back to R13). The four different types of lights are Point, Spotlight, Distant and Sun light. In this posting I take a look at some of the new lighting improvements at a very basic level.ĪutoCAD 2007 supports 4 different types of light sources (5 if you are going to count default lighting).
Easy to use visual interface and demonstrational animations quickly introduce all main features of AutoCAD. These changes wouldn't make much difference if they didn't improve lighting, materials and rendering as well. AutoCAD 2007 Visual Course v.1.0 AutoCAD 2007 Visual self-learning course is designed for the beginners wishing to learn AutoCAD sofwtare in a fast and efficient way. I'm sure you have heard by now that AutoCAD 2007 has gotten a major overhaul in its 3D Modeling capabilities.