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Light emitting diode glow?

et.teljemo — Sat, 04 Nov 2017 13:26:41 GMT

Is there any way in fusion 360 to make component glow?

I am placing out were to up some leds to make them light up behind a logo.

I was thinking that this would be useful to get them evenly spread if I could somehow see the light spreading and bouncing on the background wall.

tried appearance > emissive LED

but my led just turns all white.. now glow

Re: Light emitting diode glow?

SaeedHamza — Sat, 04 Nov 2017 13:58:08 GMT

Hey there ET,

Check the Emissivity Filter Color by going to Appearance > edit material > advanced

Regards

Re: Light emitting diode glow?

TrippyLighting — Sat, 04 Nov 2017 14:53:24 GMT

There re several emissive LED materials. Some of them are white LED's. Which one did you try ?

Also very important! Depending on what lighting environment you are using in your scene you need to likely turn down the Brightness of the lighting environment to see light emitting from the LED.

Re: Light emitting diode glow?

et.teljemo — Sun, 05 Nov 2017 19:36:43 GMT

To bad it takes time to render.. Would like to have some kind of preview on how the light will spread.. well I cant have it all..

It takes a couple of renders to get it to look ok.

A bit too darkThis was better 🙂

Re: Light emitting diode glow?

SaeedHamza — Sun, 05 Nov 2017 19:25:23 GMT

Use the incanvas feature in the render environment to get an initial result
to help you understand what you will have

Re: Light emitting diode glow?

et.teljemo — Sun, 05 Nov 2017 19:40:40 GMT

What is that exactly.. a lot of particles making the image higher and higher resolution..

Is this another way of rendering or just a preview future??

in canvas render

Re: Light emitting diode glow?

TrippyLighting — Sun, 05 Nov 2017 19:45:38 GMT

Fusion 360 progressively refines the rendered result. How far depends on what you've set the slider to once the render has started.

The Canvas render engine and the cloud render engine are the same (supposedly). I'd use the cloud render only for the final render so as to not burn my club credits.

Edit: Oh and I am a LED lighting fan and like where this is going, so keep asking if you run into trouble!

Re: Light emitting diode glow?

SaeedHamza — Sun, 05 Nov 2017 19:52:23 GMT

You can call it a fast local render which keeps getting a better resolution
on time

We use it in order to get an initial idea of how the render is going to be