Will a high school teacher qualify for this? Vectorworks is a pretty detailed program for a 2D lighting plot isn't it?
Yes, any educational user qualifies for the educational package. Also, VW is the standard for 2D light plot drafting, certainly not too detailed, it does exatly waht it was designed to do.
If it is only simple stuff, you could try Google Sketchup. Even though it is 3-D you might be able to use it to do a light plot. There would be no light instruments, but you should be able to use simple symbols (a simple square with a circle in the middle comes to mind for a scoop) to get the point across.
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.
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