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Where's the Title Block? Should be in lower, right hand corner.
Where's the Instrument Key?
That's not how onstage booms are designated/numbered. #1BmRight, #2BmLeft, etc.
Downstage booms are confusing.
Need heights for all boom units.
Is there really no FOH position in use at the venue?

For some reason, My title block and key werent on this export. They exist.

Should boom heights be done with dimension lines?

Beams 1,2, and 3 are our FOH Positions I have to re-export. Some of the plot got cut off.
 
Not bad. I'd say any house with three fore stage booms is unusual to begin with. And I need a section to know if this is a"good design" or not - but a very credible presentation.

Ya, they are unusual, We call them Flippers cause they shut.

Normally used for Diag Front/High Side, But because we added an extension over the pit, Im using them as Sidelight.
 
Not sitting in front of the computer with the final copy, but this is what I'm looking at.
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... Should boom heights be done with dimension lines?
Probably not. +2'-0" , +3'-6" , etc. next to each instrument symbol. Also good to include a general note "All boom dimensions are to lens center" else an electrician may decide it's to the sidearm.

And lose that silly bell-shaped boom base. It's out of scale, and I first that you had a scoop on the bottom of every boom. Just an upside-down T will suffice.

Sorry if I appear overly critical. All in all, a good effort, but one that could be greatly approved by adhering to methods described in http://www.amazon.com/dp/0415812003/?tag=controlbooth-20 or the much older but still (mostly) valid 1974 http://www.amazon.com/dp/0910482470/?tag=controlbooth-20 or 1990 http://www.amazon.com/dp/0896761126/?tag=controlbooth-20 .
 
Oh geeze! I worked (a little, as the "young" person in the consulting firm) on the planning and design of this theatre. I thought the fore stage panels looked familiar. This was in 89 or 90 I think. Curiously I have maintained a relationship with the at-that-time designer there, and actually consulted on another project where he worked. Side light for dance on the forestage was some of the thinking.

This one, correct? Or am I totally confused? This is at what was then called Pomona College. Doesn't look like your plot and I don't know what was renamed what when I think 5 colleges merged.

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Here is my fixed PDF.
Can we not upload VWX to CB?
 

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Probably not. +2'-0" , +3'-6" , etc. next to each instrument symbol. Also good to include a general note "All boom dimensions are to lens center" else an electrician may decide it's to the sidearm.

And lose that silly bell-shaped boom base. It's out of scale, and I first that you had a scoop on the bottom of every boom. Just an upside-down T will suffice.

Sorry if I appear overly critical. All in all, a good effort, but one that could be greatly approved by adhering to methods described in http://www.amazon.com/dp/0415812003/?tag=controlbooth-20 or the much older but still (mostly) valid 1974 http://www.amazon.com/dp/0910482470/?tag=controlbooth-20 or 1990 http://www.amazon.com/dp/0896761126/?tag=controlbooth-20 .
No not at all, The input is exactly what I am looking for.

Its Great.
 
As BTW, you really came a long way from the first posted attempt. You can be proud of the drawing, lots of nice style.
 
Make ALL of the text readable from ONE direction. I don't like "portrait" plots, but in this case I can accept it. However, if I'm looking at the actual paper, it would be annoying to have to turn the sheet around to read the Key.
 

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