# Camera and Light placement in Visualization

**URL:** <https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/camera-and-light-placement-in-visualization/28489>\
**Category:** Feature requests\
**Created:** [October 19, 2023, 7:00pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/camera-and-light-placement-in-visualization/28489 "2023-10-19T19:00:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![woodbytes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/woodbytes/32/17195_2.png) [@woodbytes](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/woodbytes)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2023, 7:00pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/camera-and-light-placement-in-visualization/28489/1 "2023-10-19T19:00:32Z")

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At the moment, only the environment can be set very spartanly in the visualization. A few light and a few dark themes. There is nothing more.

To be able to make nicer screenshots, I would like to be able to position the light. It would also be great if I could place multiple light sources in both color and brightness.

Furthermore, it would often be very handy if I could not rotate the camera around the object, but if I could rotate the object in space and the camera stays still.

What do you think about that?

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**Author:** ![udokr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/udokr/32/14506_2.png) [@udokr](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/udokr)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2023, 6:54pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/camera-and-light-placement-in-visualization/28489/2 "2023-10-20T18:54:51Z")

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You can do most of these in Cadmio.

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**Author:** ![woodbytes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/woodbytes/32/17195_2.png) [@woodbytes](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/woodbytes)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2023, 4:50pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/camera-and-light-placement-in-visualization/28489/3 "2023-10-21T16:50:53Z")

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Ah, thanks for the suggestion. I never heard of that software. And I see it’s an iPad app. However, I’m using Shapr3D only on my Mac. And it would be really nice to have that features built in the tool I’m using.