2009
Table Of Contents
- Autodesk NavisWorks Simulate 2009
- Contents
- Part 1. Welcome to Autodesk NavisWorks Simulate 2009
- Part 2. Installation
- Chapter 3. Quick Start to Stand-Alone Installation
- Chapter 4. Move to NavisWorks from a Previous Release
- Chapter 5. Install NavisWorks for an Individual User
- Chapter 6. Install NavisWorks for Multiple Users
- Quick Start to Network Installation
- System Requirements for a Deployment
- Creating Network Deployments
- Preliminary Tasks for a Network Deployment
- Use the Installation Wizard to Set Up a Deployment
- Start the Deployment Process
- Create a Deployment
- Enter Product and User Information
- Specify Log File Locations
- What Is Silent Mode?
- Customer Involvement Program (CIP)
- Select a License Type (optional)
- Select the Installation Type (optional)
- Final Review and Complete Setup
- Register the Product
- Modify a Deployment (optional)
- Point Users to the Administrative Image
- Uninstall the Program
- Chapter 7. Installation Troubleshooting
- What are the minimum system requirements?
- How can I check my graphics card driver to see if it needs to be updated?
- What is the difference between a stand-alone license and a network license?
- What is the benefit to using a network licensed version of the software?
- When performing a Typical installation, what gets installed?
- Where are my product manuals?
- Deployment Issues
- Networking Issues
- Maintenance Issues
- Part 3. Basic NavisWorks Functionality
- Chapter 8. Overview
- Chapter 9. File Management
- Chapter 10. Converting Files
- File Readers
- NWF Files
- NWD Files
- NWC Files
- DWG and DXF Files
- DWF Files
- Bentley AutoPLANT Files
- 3DS Files
- DGN and PRP Files
- MAN Files
- PDS Files
- IGES Files
- STEP Files
- Inventor Files
- VRML world files
- Riegl Scan Files
- Faro Scan Files
- Leica Scan Files
- Z+F Scan Files
- ASCII Laser Scan Files
- STL Stereolithography files
- AVEVA Review RVM and RVS files
- IFC files
- Sketchup SKP files
- File Exporters
- CAD Previewing
- File Readers
- Chapter 11. Publishing
- Chapter 12. Navigating
- Chapter 13. Selecting Items
- Chapter 14. Finding
- Chapter 15. Editing
- Chapter 16. Display Modes
- Chapter 17. Viewpoints
- Chapter 18. Sectioning
- Chapter 19. Animation
- Chapter 20. Reviewing
- Chapter 21. Object Manipulation
- Chapter 22. Interface
- Chapter 23. Tools
- Chapter 24. Options
- Chapter 25. DataTools
- Chapter 26. Getting Help
- Part 4. Using Presenter
- Part 5. Object Animation
- Part 6. Using TimeLiner
- Glossary
- Index
Chapter 30. Presenter Lighting
In this section you will learn how to apply, remove, and manage lights.
Lighting Tab
Like the Materials, Effects and Rendering tabs, the Lighting tab is divided into two panes - the archive on
the left and the palette on the right. The archive contains individual lights, as well as light studios. A light
studio is a combination of lights that work well together. The palette contains all the lights that are active
in the scene.
To apply a light to the scene, you drag it from an archive into the palette, at which point you can edit its
parameters if required. The light is added to those already in the scene.
To apply a light studio to the scene, you drag it from an archive into the palette. All the lights in the light
studio replace those already in the scene. Light Studios are applied to the scene intelligently. The light
studio is oriented and scaled to match the scene to which it is being applied. You can also expand a light
studio in the archive and drag the lights into the palette individually. If you do this the lights are not
oriented or scaled to match the scene.
Each light in the palette has a check box, which can be used to turn the light on or off in the scene.
The following sections will describe how to manage and edit lights for insertion into the scene.
Adding and Positioning Lights
Lights and light studios can be taken directly from the archives and applied to the scene by simply
dropping them into the palette. These can then be repositioned as you wish.
The Recommended archive contains five lights (Ambient, Distant, Eye, Point and Spot), a Standard
Light Studio, an Environment Light Studio, an Environment folder containing two Environment lights
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