Yep, Listen to Rick on viewports. Create a new sheet for each card you need, that way you can define the print size, then you scale your view-port to that sheet. I do this for almost every show/event, in order to print things on 8.5x11" paper. I often do viewports for each
truss, and squish them into one
page. Or to just see one detailed segment of a design. Sometimes I just need to see
fixture numbers and I could not care less about scale.
Also Look into the lighting tapes plugin.
https://lightningtapes.com/ I do mostly corporate and Music/rock and
roll, and even though this seems to be designed from a theater approach, I find it well worth the money. These hang tapes are pretty sweet, you don't even need hang cards, and you don't ever need to let a
stagehand use a tape measure(huge time saver). I work with mostly moving lights and LEDs; everything that leaves our shop has been addresses and has a Sticker with the
Fixture number as the largest font. The cases are also labeled with the
fixture number.
I make the
Fixture number the Biggest thing on the
Truss tape, hang each tape on the
truss or batons, and then unleash everyone on matching the number on the
fixture with the number on the tape. A lot of stagehands are actually really smart and can be great electricians, but you must provide them with the information to do the job. You can include all of that info right on the lighting tape, from
circuit number to
fixture orientation.
The plugin is $99 is think, the printer is about $130-40, and paper is about $1 per 230ft
roll. It gets paid for quickly.
