Plan, Front and 3D
Three drawings of the same rig, all live: change a trim in the Positions dialog and every open device redraws. None of them needs a gaming laptop — they're deliberately lightweight so a phone at the dimmer beach and a years-old FOH machine both keep up.
Plan
Top-down, in metres, with the centre line and the downstage edge marked.
- Drag a position to move it — it snaps to 0.25 m and syncs live to everyone.
- Zoom with the −/+ buttons, which keep the middle of the view where it is; unit numbers appear once you're in past 120%.
- On a phone or tablet, drag anywhere off a position to move around the plan, and pinch to zoom. A drag or pinch that starts on a fixture doesn't select it.
- Click any fixture to select it — the app flips to the Fixtures tab with that unit highlighted.
Front
The audience's view: width across, height up, everything drawn at its position's trim. Upstage positions draw dimmer and slightly smaller so depth stays readable in 2D. On a phone it pans and pinches like the plan.
3D
An orbitable view of the rig over a stage deck — drag to orbit, and Reset view brings back the default angle. When the box is receiving live DMX and a fixture's profile provides real pan/tilt ranges, moving heads grow faint beam cones pointing where the desk is pointing them — the live page covers switching that on.
What the drawings need from your data
The drawings are only as good as the plot's numbers:
| You see | Because |
|---|---|
| Fixtures in a neat line | Their position has a length and they're spread along it |
| Sensible heights in Front/3D | Positions have real trim heights |
| Beam cones in 3D | Live levels are on and the fixture has a GDTF profile with pan/tilt ranges |
| A dot at stage centre | The fixture has no position — it's parked in "No position" |
An MVR import fills nearly all of this in one go — positions, real coordinates along the truss, profiles. A CSV import gives you the list but not the geometry; see the import comparison.