Event planners may not be aware that a series of commands and interactive objects make it simple to document commercial events, such as business meetings, in a straightforward manner. This functionality includes tracing out and scaling the venue from an imported image or PDF, creating the stage, populating it with video screens and lecterns and creating various seating layouts. This is topped off by an automatic command to create plans, side and front views and a perspective of the entire event. Vectorworks has two-way database worksheets that capture the information from the light plot that is necessary to produce all the standard lighting paperwork documentation that lighting designers need. The software also lets users visit the default content that comes with Vectorworks Spotlight to add interactive versions of the paperwork worksheets as favorites in the Resource Browser. In addition to these functions within the software, users can take advantage of several third-party products, such as pre-visualization tools and interactive lighting paperwork management on top of the onboard paperwork functionality mentioned earlier. Examples include ESP Vision, Lightwright, Cinema 4D and Light Converse.
—From “Focus on Fundamentals” by Nemetschek Vectorworks’ Frank Brault, PLSN, March 2013, page 54.
