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How to turn off point light tracking grid (#4497)
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MarkS  
#1 Posted : Saturday, September 8, 2012 11:28:47 AM(UTC)
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In Viacad 2D/3D, how do you turn off the 8-sided grid that goes around a point light source? It looked like Edit/Show points was supposed to turn it off, but that doesn't seem to make a difference.

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MarkS  
#2 Posted : Thursday, September 27, 2012 10:43:42 AM(UTC)
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There hasn't been any reply to this message, and I'm still wondering. It occurred to me that no one knows what I'm talking about. So I've attached a drawing showing the light. The light is surrounded by a grid showing the arrows. The help file says I should be able to toggle those arrows off by using "Show Points" (Control-D). But toggling this switch makes no difference.

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jol  
#3 Posted : Thursday, September 27, 2012 11:15:59 AM(UTC)
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Not sure you can do that Mark

Why do you need to ?

.. To show a client ?
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MarkS  
#4 Posted : Thursday, September 27, 2012 12:55:42 PM(UTC)
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Hi jol,

Its supposed to be a point source of light, which I'm using to give the effect of an illuminated LED. The effect works -- except for the guide-line grid which I don't want at the moment.

Is there some other way to make light appear to be coming from an object?

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lgrijalva  
#5 Posted : Thursday, September 27, 2012 1:10:06 PM(UTC)
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Try to use area light instead

choose area light on the light palet, then select the object to be used as a light source

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jol  
#6 Posted : Thursday, September 27, 2012 2:25:41 PM(UTC)
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I'm not sure that ViaCAD has 'area' lights Luis (!?)

Photoshop afterwards - would be the other answer
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MarkS  
#7 Posted : Thursday, September 27, 2012 3:05:43 PM(UTC)
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There are area lights. They aren't described in the user guide. You access them and 2 other non-described lights from a drop-down in the Inspector for the light.

Unfortunately, all of the lights have the associated light "guides", and no setting seems to be able to turn off that feature.

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Mark
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#8 Posted : Thursday, September 27, 2012 3:06:02 PM(UTC)
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Did you go in the inspector?
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MarkS  
#9 Posted : Thursday, September 27, 2012 4:33:49 PM(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: rockyroad_us Go to Quoted Post
Did you go in the inspector?


As I mentioned, there are several lights available from the inspector, but as far as I could tell they all had the "guides" attached.

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jol  
#10 Posted : Friday, September 28, 2012 2:32:03 AM(UTC)
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Maybe that's a feature request then Mark

What do you think Tim - using CTRL D to toggle these scaffolds ?
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