About Common Lamp Values for Photometric Lights

The color of light emitted by a photometric light can be adjusted using the light's Filter Color and Lamp Color properties. When you adjust a light's Lamp Color property, you can specify a standard color or a Kelvin temperature value. The Kelvin temperature value of a light can be in the range of 1,000 to 20,000.

A light can be set to one of the following standard colors:

Light Tools on Tool Palettes

The Tool Palettes window contains a number of tool palettes with light tools that represent commonly used lamp values. Clicking a light tool on a tool palette allows you to place a new light with a specified lamp value into a drawing. The following is a list of the tool palettes that contain commonly used lamps:
  • Fluorescent
  • High Intensity Discharge
  • Low Pressure Sodium
  • Incandescent