Recent content by allenj2489

I just joined. I am a professional Lighting Designer, Production and Stage Manager, and educator. Been bouncing around in the business for the last 25 years, retired, then got talked into teaching again.

When designing my set up is with three monitors. VW on one, LightWright one, Vision one, and ETC Nomad on my laptop screen. As I create the light plot the info is automatically entered live into Lightwright. Once i have it pretty much done LightWright will export the patch to Nomad, and I send...

create a macro to turn on and off the lights when the board is on or off. Then it will be automatic.

You should use VectorWorks - it is pretty much the industry standard for entertainment and it interfaces with LightWright, and now Vision for previz. AND FREE TO EDUCATORS AND STUDENTS!!! We do our ground plans in VW then export to Sketchup for finishing. Sketcuhup IS NOT a CAD program and as a...