The Visualization palette allows you to edit the lights directly from the palette. Right click on the light in the Visualization palette, then choose Edit… This will open the settings where you can edit the light. This means that you do not need to changes layers or classes to look…
This is the second session for the Landmark Special Interest Group for April 2013. The people who attended the session were extremely interested in creating a report that listed all the garden lights and information about the lights.
Vectorworks can be used for quick 3D modeling. You can use Vectorworks for lighting. If you combine both of these, you can use Vectorworks to create a solar study.
Placing a Sun. If you are using an earlier version of Vectorworks, you will have to use the lighting option, Set Sun Position, from the Lighting Menu. This command requires you to input the latitude and longitude of your location. Since Vectorworks 2012, you have a new tool to place a sun called the…
Heliodon. In Australia and New Zealand we have had the Heliodon tool for several versions. But for people outside Australia and New Zealand, this is a new tool and it replaces the Set Sun Position command from the View > Lighting menu.
In the past we used to use area lights to replicate light coming in window, and Vectorworks 2011/2012 we don’t have to do this the other, more realistic ways of creating lights.
I think rendering is one the fun parts of Vectorworks. Appropriate rendering will bring your buildings and objects to life, but without good lighting, all your good work will be wasted. A clever lighting design will even make a dull model come to life.
Rendering and Lighting Tips. Keep the number of lights you use to a minimum. The more lights you add, the longer each rendering will take. Do not add every light that would be in the scene in real life. Rendering does not replicate real life, it is your interpretation of it….
Start Batch Render Job. When you have all your batch render jobs, you can set Vectorworks to export them all.
Batch Render. This is the trick to make sure you do not tie up your computer when you want to be using it. After you have assigned the light, cameras, models and textures, and you have used the Render Bitmap tool to check everything, you can set up batch render jobs…