VectorWorks Spotlight: Profile

VectorWorks Spotlight is the gold standard in entertainment, tailor-made to meet the needs of designers in the event planning, exhibition and entertainment industries. It contains everything you need to transform your ideas into powerful and successful productions. VectorWorks Spotlight marries precision 2D drafting and flexible 3D modeling with advanced lighting, visualization, and production tools.

Whether you design lighting, scenery, sets, live concerts, corporate events, theatrical productions or design exhibits, put yourself in the spotlight and create a spectacular show:

• Access a complete library of instruments and accessories from 17 leading manufacturers
• Easily define and manage labels and label formatting for lighting instruments
• Define lighting positions, hang instruments, and create instrument position summaries
• Create multi-circuit instruments, gang instruments, and add accessories
• Assign instruments to focus areas and show light beams in 2D and 3D
• Track instrument and accessory data used in light plots and automatically generate paperwork
• Import data directly to Lightwright™
• Export dimmer and channel information to a USITT standard ASCII text patch
• Automatically calculate and display the illumination values
• Choose from over 3,000 gobo patterns from leading manufacturers or create your own custom gobos.
• Create impressive animations of your scene changes or virtual tours you clients can navigate in real time
• Simulate your Spotlight models in real time with ESP Vision™

Alternatively, if you do set design for television, theatre or film, you can:

• Import venues as DXF/DWG files and use them as base layers in your design
• Recreate venues with intelligent building objects like walls, doors, windows, ramps and stairs
• Draw a variety of curtains in 2D and 3D with intelligent curtain objects
• Easily draw straight and curved trusses in 2D and 3D with truss tools
• Automatically array seats in 2D and 3D and get seat counts
• Easily create 2D shop drawings with sophisticated drafting tools
• Create organic 3D set elements with powerful free-form modelling tools
• Add "pose-able" people to your 3D scenes with new 3D human figure objects
• See exactly where lights will be focused on stage with focus objects
• Set 3D views to illustrate how different scenes will look at different angles and positions
• Easily create storyboards by arranging different view with text and graphics
• Present your ideas in 2D and 3D with high-end presentation capabilities

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