taylord Posted December 7, 2017 Share Posted December 7, 2017 Hi all, Fairly new to drawing lighting plots and looking for some basic software to get started. I'm using a mac. I'd also like to eventually do some 3D visuals too. Can anyone recommend any please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Young Johnstone Posted December 7, 2017 Share Posted December 7, 2017 Capture is probably the most common, all round design software that's reasonably priced. There are Wysiwyg and Vectorworks that are the industry standard bits of software, but these are both rather expensive. All have demo versions available for you too try so download them and have a play. I personally use Capture a lot for any design and preprogramming work, and also produce decent plots with it.It has different pricing structures that vary in a the amount of universes that can be controlled for visualisation. The lowest price is around £300 ish.This doesn't limit the amount of fixtures you can add onto the design if you're just going to use it for plots though. There are some other bits of software like LX Free, but I'm sure others will mention more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex-c-johnson Posted December 8, 2017 Share Posted December 8, 2017 I personally find vectorworks my go to software for both 2d and 3d drawings, as mentioned above this is the industry standard software. and for 3d renders I will usually do a data export to Capture Nexum along with my 3D model and use that for the lighting render. it is worth mentioning that one can render stage lighting within vectorworks its self however I have never found this the most intuitive thing to do. so after trying out both WYSIWYG and Capture I just found capture far easier to use and I personally felt it gave the best results in the least amount of time! Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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