Apply Light Info to Beams

Overview

This command will utilize data attached to your symbols to provide you with a library of beam angles, field angles, and peak candela to apply to your BeamViz Objects. The data is extracted from the Light Info Record in your symbol definitions. The symbols that shipped with Spotlight as well as those commercially available, like Soft Symbols , have photometric data already attached to them.

Data will be shown for symbol definitions in your current document as well as those in your Spotlight Default content folder.

Instructions

1. Select any mix of BeamViz and Section objects. 
2. Choose the Use Light Info for Selected menu command. 
3. You will see any photometric data attached to the symbol resources in your drawing as well as those in the Spotlight Default content. 
4. BeamViz computes the brightness, in footcandles, for the first selected BeamViz object in your drawing. 
5. Select a symbol whose data you want to use. 
6. If you only want to use the field angle, click Ignore Beam Ang , otherwise, click OK . 
7. Your beams will now use the data you selected.