This manual serves as the User Guide for all TurboCAD LTE 8 / DoubleCAD 5 Products

Sun Position

Owned by Brian Carter (Unlicensed)
Jul 30, 2014

The Sun control  is designed to provide a universal control for the display of sunlight in all draft and quality renders.

Use Sun – If on a Sun light is used in all draft & quality renders.  The direction of the sunlight points to the 0,0,0 point of the drawing.


Intensity: sets the power of the sunlight It takes values from 0 to 9999, with a default of 1.

Shadows – If checked the sun light casts shadows.

Use System time and Geo-Location: If selected the date and time is derived from the computer clock and the location is specified by Geo-Location

Use Specified time and Geo-Location: If selected the date and time and time zone (GMT+/-) are user specified and the location is specified by Geo-Location

Date: Sets the date.

Time: Sets the time.

Timezone: Sets the timezone as relative plus or minus to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)

Custom: If selected the uses may directly specify the Azimuth and Angle.

Azimuth: The user can specify the Azimuth from 0.00 to 360.

Angle: The user can specify the Angle from -90 to 90.