Nemetschek launched
VectorWorks 2008, including
VectorWorks Spotlight 2008, the 2D and 3D design software for the entertainment industry.
Whether you're
designing lighting for theatrical events, live concerts, corporate events, or museum exhibits, VectorWorks Spotlight has the technology you need to put on 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™
VectorWorks Spotlight has all the tools you need to
design sets for any show—from your local news broadcast or regional playhouse to a Broadway musical or a major motion picture.
- 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 modeling 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
VectorWorks Spotlight 2008LightConverse software offers real-time, photo-realistic 3D visualization of any type of show. Features include realistic-looking fixtures, photometric rays and gobo visualization, fixture constructor, video inputs, animated objects, animated fog, customizable 3D libraries. Software updates are free of charge for life. The realism and speed are the best in the industry.
Light Converse
