. As I finished reading, I do only unit numbers on my plot. Nothing else. Everything else is in the paperwork. This is what we were taught. I suppose if the ME wants something more, I can activate those fields in Vectorworks.
Of course the ME cannot activate a color class while looking at a printed plot. Too late for that.
Here's why not having color and an indication of a unit having a template ("T") or iris ("I") on the plot drives me nuts and why I believe it's a bad habit.
The plot is printed and is being used for focus. I'll interrupt by stating, yes you can use the instrument schedule, but lets say that you have 2 electrics right next to each other. The electrician in the Genie can reach both electrics as they roll across the floor. It's harder to keep track of what light is next when using an IS, it's easier to use a plot. Which is why we always use a plot to see what channel/addresses are next while focusing. Typically the RRFU operator is doing this. All proceeds as planned.
But maybe you didn't land all color and gobo's while the electrics were on the the deck (or maybe it's the box booms where you can't in any event), so maybe the elec. has an electrics worth of color in the bucket bag. I don't like doing it this way, but our Dept, of Theater does. So now the person running the RRFU, as well as either recalling channels from an IS, or the plot, has to refer to another sheet of paper to find the color to tell the bucket person what gel to stick in a light. That's slow and is prone to error.
But OK, you don't always want to stick a "R77780" template label next to a light, especially when you have a lot of units using templates. At some point you are cluttering the plot up with a lot of info. But color seems pretty easy and as I've seen the "No color on the plot" concept used, and in my mind it's just an excuse for the LD to not make a bit more effort to create useful label legends (assuming Vectorworks) that are effective in placing useful information pertinent to the light, on the light plot.