Line lights, Area Lights
A few other tricks you can use to spruce up your interior design.
Make a Line Light
This is good for creating effect lighting such as produced by a fluorescent light above a coving, or under a display cabinet. Draw a line corresponding to the light's actual size [1] – e.g., 48" – then Modify > Convert > Convert to Line Light… [2] NOTE: This is a Renderworks-only tool, and only seen in Renderworks modes: it is not part of VectorWorks without Renderworks.
Set Brightness and other settings
500 Lumens is very bright -- you might find 200 or 100 sufficient, but can change it later in the Obj Info palette.
Check the light's parameters in the Obj Info palette
Move up to the required position.
Do this in an elevational view where you can see the line as a line, instead of "head-on" as a dot. In this case, we're moving it to above the coving.
Check its position in plan.
Add a ceiling (if you haven't already)
The easiest way to do this is to create a "floor" out of a rectangle covering the entire unit, and setting its Bottom Z to the required ceiling height.
Assign to a suitable Class, and Send to Back
If you have a "Ceiling-Main" class, assign this to it – if not, make one and assign it. (This will allow you to set its material and/or turn it off when necessary.) Then Send to Back (⌘B ; Windows: Ctrl+B) so it doesn't obscure the plan.
Set a suitable camera view to see the light.
Symbolize the light if intend to duplicate
Display Camera View, and Render FQRW
Click Display Camera View… in the Camera View's Obj Info, click on the Zoom in Selected Objects [2], and render at Final Quality RenderWorks to see the result. NOTE: You can see the lighting effect in any Renderworks mode.
Duplicate Array, perhaps
Duplicate Array… allows you to create several duplicates at once, at intervals of your choosing – e.g., something a little bigger than the size of each light.
Result.
TO MAKE AN AREA LIGHT...
Take (or create) any polygon, in the projection of your choice (in this case, I've chosen an elevation view, to hang it on the wall – but I could have created it in plan, to put on the ceiling as a fluorescent panel).
Convert to Area Light
Move the light in plan more or less into position.
The red arrow projecting from the light object, by the way, indicates the direction of the light projection.
Zoom in and rotate it (if necessary) and position accurately
(⌘L ; Windows: Ctrl+L) to Rotate it Left 90° twice.
Result.