wpg3121
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Planning Software
#878242 - 30/11/10 12:06 PM
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Hi,
Does anyone know of any good software for creating stage plans? I'm looking for
some software to show Microphone /Speaker placement and cabling. After searching for a
while I still can't find any so can anybody help?
Thanks,
William
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Mike Stranks
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Loc: Oxford, UK
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Re: Planning Software
[Re: wpg3121]
#878246 - 30/11/10 12:15 PM
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I use the drawing facilities in MS Office and make it up as a one-page Powerpoint in A4
format for printing. Does me fine, but maybe you need something more.
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MarkOne
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Re: Planning Software
[Re: wpg3121]
#878258 - 30/11/10 12:48 PM
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I wouldn't be surprised if Visio didn't have some templates for stage gear, they have all
kinds of stuff like that
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seablade
Joined: 21/11/04
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Re: Planning Software
[Re: wpg3121]
#878259 - 30/11/10 12:51 PM
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Quote wpg3121:
Hi,
Does
anyone know of any good software for creating stage plans? I'm looking for some software
to show Microphone /Speaker placement and cabling. After searching for a while I still
can't find any so can anybody help?
Thanks,
William
OpenOffice Draw, Google Docs Drawing, any
2D capable CAD software, pretty much any illustration program... the list goes on. If you
need very basic, there is an online solution called Sketcher IIRC that does basic stage
layouts.
As a side note, I wouldn't try to show cabling on a stage plot.
Assuming this is a tech ryder and you have an engineer, label your inputs via a key, and
on a separate spreadsheet make your patch list so that the inputs are going to the
channels desired on the console, assuming that is what you are looking for.
If this is an install you should be doing a signal flow diagram separately anyways.
Seablade
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wpg3121
Joined: 21/11/10
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Re: Planning Software
[Re: wpg3121]
#878363 - 30/11/10 06:19 PM
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Thank you all very much for your responses. I'm surprised theres not dedicated software as
I presumed the demand is there. I am the engineer but I'm doing a gig on Friday where I'm
being forced to use a horrible mish mash of different speakers and I wanted somewhere to
collate my thoughts about the cabling. I do also have a selection of shreadsheets which
the information is in but I find during setup its easier to have a proper image plan than
just the spreadsheet.
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Breimefont
Joined: 04/03/11
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Loc: Manila, The Philippines
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Re: Planning Software
[Re: Mike Stranks]
#899215 - 06/03/11 06:59 PM
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Hi! Hoping this might help..try iSketch. 
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lightman
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Loc: Gloucestershire, UK
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Re: Planning Software
[Re: wpg3121]
#899225 - 06/03/11 09:13 PM
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There is Stardraw:
http://www.stardraw.com/
it costs rather a lot though......
if you don't need too much detail any drawing/CAD package will do the job fine;
and this is what most people do 80% of the time.
-------------------- Cheers, Ben Gummery, Techie
Edited by lightman (06/03/11 09:43 PM)
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JonSSH
Joined: 19/07/10
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Loc: Yorkshire
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Re: Planning Software
[Re: wpg3121]
#899300 - 07/03/11 12:54 PM
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I have always used the now sadly discontinued Appleworks. I do a stage drawing using the
drawing part and then click on the numbers box do add a spreadsheet for the channel list.
I have drawn little pics of monitors and mics that I have saved in the library..You can
still find it on the net but it is Mac only. Microsoft used to have a similar programme
called Works but I haven't seen that for a while...
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seablade
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Re: Planning Software
[Re: JonSSH]
#899311 - 07/03/11 01:36 PM
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Quote JonSSH:
I have always used
the now sadly discontinued Appleworks. I do a stage drawing using the drawing part and
then click on the numbers box do add a spreadsheet for the channel list. I have drawn
little pics of monitors and mics that I have saved in the library..You can still find it
on the net but it is Mac only. Microsoft used to have a similar programme called Works but
I haven't seen that for a while...
Microsoft Works was the biggest Oxymoron in history. NOTHING opens that format
anymore. I still have students every now and then come in with documents in that format,
and I have to redirect them to OpenOffice, Google Docs, pretty much anything else that
does a better job and can actually be read by someone else in the world.
Seablade
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