Draw the site to scale, and hand over something the shop can build from.
The 3D plot draws the site — envelope, fence, gates, stage, FOH, tents, power — to scale, layered by discipline. What you place there is what the departments and the event sim read.
Production designer, set designer, or whoever ends up drafting the site. You are working weeks before anyone else and your output is everybody's input: if the FOH position moves twenty feet on your drawing, audio, video, rigging and the dock all inherit it.
- You work in the plot; everyone downstream works off it
- Scale is not a detail — a tent that does not fit is a load-in day lost
- Your drawing has to survive being handed to people who did not draw it
3D Plot
/shows/[showId]/advance/3d-plot
A to-scale site builder with real layers — Site (envelope, fence, gates, restrooms, concessions, merch, docks, parking, ADA), Production (stage, stairs, FOH, consoles, tents, PA, LED, power, cable ramps), Lighting, and the Sim zones read from the plot. Grid, snap, align, array and measure are the tools; you can also describe what you want in a sentence and have it drawn. No capture: the demo show has no geometry on it yet, and photographing an empty canvas would be a lie about the product.
What this module does5 screens, and what each one is for.
Event Details
/shows/[showId]/advance/event-details
The brief in one place: event type, main talent, expected attendance and the goal you were given. Attendance is the number the site plan has to survive.
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Venue Advance
/shows/[showId]/advance/venue-advance
The room's real size, the house contacts and the production spec. Capacity lives here and expected attendance lives on Event Details — two different numbers, deliberately, and the sheets say which is which.
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Departments
/shows/[showId]/departments
Where your drawing lands as somebody's job. Scenic gets builds and plots, LX gets the plot and patch, Staging gets decks and risers — each with its own sheet count so you can see what has actually been picked up.
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Build Schedule
/shows/[showId]/build
The design becoming dated rows with owners. It is the fastest honest answer to 'is any of this actually going to be built by Friday'.
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Gear List
/shows/[showId]/gear
What the design costs in kit, by category and by piece count, with what has been pulled against it. Design decisions show up here first.
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The boundary, before you find it yourself
Half of these are somebody else's screen and half of them are things this software does not do at all. Both are worth knowing now rather than at 16:00 on a load-in day.
CAD interchange
The plot is its own model. There is no DWG round-trip, and drawings brought in from outside are attached files.
Renders and visualisation
The 3D plot is a to-scale planning model. It is not a look-development tool and it does not pretend to be.
The MVR rig
Lighting imports its own MVR into the LX workspace. Fixtures appear on the plot when that import exists — you do not draw them.
Load-in, show, load-out.
- Weeks outRead the brief: type, talent, attendance, goal.Advance Ops · Event Details
- Weeks outGet the room's real dimensions and restrictions off the venue sheet.Advance Ops · Venue Advance
- DraftingDraw the site to scale — envelope, fence, gates, stage, FOH, tents, power.Advance Ops · 3D Plot
- ReviewCheck it against attendance and the dock plan before it goes out.Advance Ops · 3D Plot
- HandoverDepartments pick their pieces up as sheets; the counts on their cards move.Show Ops · Departments
- Load-inWatch the design become dated rows with owners and statuses.Build Ops · Build Schedule
- AfterWhat the design actually cost in kit and in hours, on the same event record.Analytics