How Do You Simulate Light?

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 18:42:03 GMT

I am modeling a room filled with furniture. In the ceiling of the room are can lights (small spot lights). How do I show cone shaped rays of light coming down from the ceiling?

Your advise would be greatly appreciated.

Dave...

Re: How Do You Simulate Light?

paul.clauss — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 22:30:59 GMT

Hi @Anonymous

Thanks for posting! While the ability to add lights is in the rendering teams backlog, it is not yet available in Fusion 360. I hope to see this feature added soon as well.

The way to work around this limitation is to create emissive bodies - this has been discussed in this forum thread as well as in this thread. I hope this will help! Cone shaped light is a little trickier - you may need to consider modeling the basic form of the lights and applying the emissive material only to certain faces on the light.

This video may also be helpful.

I hope this helps! Please let me know if you have any questions.

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How Do You Simulate Light?

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