
You may not want to mix those nits in the same systems. This is really important if the venue owns some units and you’re renting others of the same type. If I need to mix inventories, I can color code different shops’ gear so the electrician know where I want specific units. I can stroke the outline of specials in a Rep Plot in a dark red or blue so it is clear what can be refocused. I really like to be able to to use the Color Filed option and the pen color option. Less so the color by Color Field, Lights that are stroked with Bastard Amber are hard to see on the Plot. I do like all of my lights classed, as shown, as Lighting-Device. It’s then also easy to select by class (I guess that’s another post) and quickly see where you have placed what instruments. So if you want the Specials classed together, or the side light classed differently from the front light, this is really easy to set up. By using a Class name with a prefix, you can gather all of the lights classes clearly in the hierarchal menu. Either an overall class for all units, or classes for specific units defined by parameters from the OIP. Then you can establish classes for the Lighting Devices. Looky, looky at all the things that are possible here.įirst, you can easily force placement of units on 18″ centers, the default, or any fixed increment you choose, like 17 125/128″ if you hate the electrician. In a Vectorworks document, go to File>Document Settings>Spotlight Preferences. Select the left tab Lighting Device. You might want to make that clear on the plot, right?

How do you quickly Tag those units on the plot? Possibly you have a plot that uses a mixed inventory of house gear and rental gear, or rental gear from different vendors. So you have a Rep Plot and there are a certain number of units for special.
