Lighting in Configurations

Manual Method

You can suppress and unsuppress (turn off and on) lights in Lights and Cameras for selected configurations as follows:

• Right-click a light and select On in SOLIDWORKS or Off in SOLIDWORKS to turn it on or off in the active configuration only.
• Right-click a light and select Properties. In the lighting PropertyManager, click or clear On in SOLIDWORKS and select This configuration, All configurations, or Specify configuration.

Design Table

The column header in a design table for controlling lights uses this syntax:

$STATE@lighting_name

For example, to control the suppression state of a directional light, the column heading syntax is $STATE@Directional1.

The column header is not case-sensitive.

In the table body cells, type S for suppressed or U for unsuppressed. If a cell is blank, the default is Unsuppressed.

Example of a design table that controls lights: