Stage Lighting Design Software – Choose Your CAD

With an updated article on a popular topic at On Stage Lighting, we look at stage lighting design software and CAD options when it comes to planning and communication in our lighting world in an extended Guide To Choosing Stage Lighting Design Software.

You might also be interested to know that at Learn@OnStageLighting we teach CAD for production lighting.

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AutoCAD To VectorWorks To AutoCAD – A Guide

VectorworksWhile tools in lighting planning continue to develop, there are still key professional CAD tools in professional stage lighting.  On Stage Lighting seeks to help Vectorworks users to transfer their learning to AutoCAD.  Meanwhile, AutoCAD users can quickly pick up skills in Vectorworks using their own prior knowledge.

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Vectorworks Spotlight Tutorial For Beginners

Vectorworks Spotlighting Lighting Plan CAD Detail

A series of video tutorials on using Vectorworks Spotlight to draw a simple theatre plan with lighting equipment and fixtures data. Produced for beginners, by a beginner.

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Stage Lighting CAD – Theatre Lighting Symbols – DWG Blocks

Stage and theatre lighting design uses your technical and artistic skills to specify equipment and create the look of a production. Planning lighting positions and communicating your ideas by drawing a lighting plan used to involve what was called technical drawing but pens and paper have given way to CAD – Computer Aided Design. So, where do you get some FREE stage lighting CAD symbols…?  Plus a new lighting symbol library for Open Office Draw.

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