Freeware Cad Program

[thelightingmancan]

Originally Posted by gafftaper

Although Van is the Sketchup king around here, I've been messing with it a bit too. You could do light plots in Sketchup... but it wouldn't be the most fun. It would be pretty easy to show fixtures hanging on battens. The hard part would be noting gel color and dimmer info. But it could be done if you had to do it that way.

You could change the colors of the "instruments," I believe I've seen some CAD programs that have that function. Could you store the instruments to your computer and label them with their wattage, weight, and etc. and create your own library? You could then draw lines off of your grid and label numbers to designate channels.