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Old July 31st, 2008, 11:52 AM

 
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Does anyone know where i can obtain inexpensive or better yet free lighting plot software. I need just basic stuff, as I only rehang about 2 or three times a year.
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Yep, pencil and paper works, and its about 95c's. If you are a student, vectorworks is available for students for free. Do a search, this question comes up about every 6 months. Remember, you get what you pay for.
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I use Field Template, Desk, Scale Rule, Triangle, Pencil, and Eraser. Works well enough for me.

In my college years I used Autocad. Much easier to move a light than with the other stack, but it also takes having access to Acad. It also takes having a plotter to export useful data off of the system.
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The IT guys here just installed AutoCad on my computer so I can do plots.
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The IT guys here just installed AutoCad on my computer so I can do plots.
Look into LD assistant if you actually want to use AutoCAD for lighting.
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Any lighting supply store will have them, I order mine from Babizon.

Field Templates&#8482: THE Source for Theatrical Lighting Symbols! - Also has a list of vendors by location, although I'm guessing online stores would sell them cheap as well.
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Any lighting supply store will have them, I order mine from Babizon.

Field Templates™: THE Source for Theatrical Lighting Symbols! - Also has a list of vendors by location, although I'm guessing online stores would sell them cheap as well.
Steve gave me one of his business-card templates at USITT '05; it's always with me and has come in quite useful a few times. The local theatrical supplier (Norcostco) stocks his regular ones as well as somebody else's blue ones. They're all slightly different, but they all work. The blue kind also has a section version with Leko field angles on it, which is very handy.
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I'll check into that. Thanks!
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I dont know whetere this may be a wee bit late but i recently discovered a technique i use a program called Turbo CAD andf i downloaded the symbols free at modelboxplans.com

Its not as good as programs such as vectorworks or wysiwyg or softplot, but for a freebie, it does its job.

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