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| 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, 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. |
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Features
 An array of 2D and 3D architectural objects provide intelligent ways to create sets and scenic elements. Objects include: - Custom tables and chairs
- Podiums
- Columns and campanile’s
- Walls, doors, windows
- Stairs and ramps
- Cabinets
- Desks
- Shelving
Unlike other programs, Spotlight enables you to create stunning presentations right out of the box. Some of the presentation features are: - Unlimited color choices
- Color palettes from Pantone®, Benjamin Moore®, Sherwin-Williams®, Resene®, Pittsburgh Paints®, Rosco®, and more
- Gradients
- Image fills
- Hatches
Intelligent 2D and 3D lighting instruments provide you with the flexibility to: - Create shutter cuts
- Attach light accessories
- Use Multi-circuit instruments
- Layout focus points
- Draw 2D and 3D light beams
A unique Label Legend Manager allows you to easily layout custom instrument legends in rotated or non-rotated formats. A photometer and photometric grid allows you to accurately display foot-candles or lux within specified lit areas and elevations. Parametric straight and curved truss objects allow you to design any style of trussing with complete control over custom attributes such as: - Chord style
- Configuration
- Length
- Rotation
Automated paperwork functionality in Spotlight allows you to seamlessly generate paperwork from your designs. With Spotlight paperwork you can generate: - Inventory reports
- Magic sheets
- Color cut lists
- Instrument schedules
- Channel hookups
- Dimmer hookups
- Circuit hookups
- Color schedules
Sharing your drawings is simple with these import/export options: - DXF/DWG
- ESP Vision
- Lightwright 4
- PDF
- ASCII
- .3DS
- Image files, including .jpg, .tif, .psd and more
- EPSF
- QuickTime and QuickTime VR
- .skp (Sketchup)
- .kml (Google Earth)
- .stl
Creating spectacular sets or scenes is easy using our custom tools and symbol libraries: - Curtain objects
- Seating layout tool
- Entourage library
- Human figure tool
- Scene and set library
Live sectioning tools make it simple to create multiple types of section views that update live as changes are made to the design. A suite of powerful free-form modeling tools make it easy to design custom objects and shapes using tools like: - Boolean operations
- NURBS curves
- Loft surfaces
- Extrusions
- Extractions
- Protrusions
- Shells
- Solids
Extensive instrument symbol libraries ship with Spotlight from all the major manufacturers, so you don’t have to draw your instruments from scratch.
- Altman
- ARRI
- Chroma Q
- City Theatrical
- Clay Paky
- Coemar
- ESP Vision 3D
- ETC
- Hardware
- High End
- Lighting Positions
- LSD-Icon
- Lycian
- Martin
- Mole-Richardson
- Morpheus
- NSI Colortran
- Powerline
- Robert Juliat
- Scenic Elements
- Selecon
- Steel Shapes
- Strand
- Strong
- USITT
- Varilite
- Wybron
- Xenotech
A custom gobo tool allows you to create your own gobos in addition to gobo catalogs from these manufacturers: - Goboland
- Lee
- Rosco
- Gam
- Apollo
- High End
Visualizing scenes in Spotlight is a breeze using a series of commands and rendering options available with the RenderWorks add on. Specifically you can: - Manage scenes
- Animate scenes
- Create atmospheric effects
- Take advantage of volumetric lighting
- Make presentation boards using non-photo-realistic rendering options
- Render physical light with true light distribution files from major manufacturers
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