VectorWorks Spotlight:

VectorWorks Spotlight is the gold standard in entertainment, tailor-made to meet the needs of designers in the event planning, exhibition, and entertainment industries. It contains everything you need to transform your ideas into powerful, successful productions. VectorWorks Spotlight marries precision 2D drafting and flexible 3D modeling with advanced lighting, visualization, and production tools. Whether you design lighting, scenery, sets, live concerts, corporate events, theatrical productions or design exhibits, put yourself in the spotlight and create a spectacular show.

Benefits of Spotlight:

Dream it, design it, dimension it, detail it, and deliver a powerful presentation. VectorWorks Spotlight 2008 has it all in one package. Work the way you want, create designs that set you apart, and collaborate with confidence. Experience the freedom to design more—at an affordable price to fit any budget.

It's the gold standard in entertainment. Spotlight is tailor-made to meet the needs of designers in the event planning, exhibition, and entertainment industries. It contains everything you need to transform your ideas into powerful, successful productions. Whether you design lighting, scenery, sets, live concerts, corporate events, theatrical productions or design exhibits, you can put yourself in the spotlight when you create a spectacular show with VectorWorks Spotlight.

Comprehensive for All Your Needs:

VectorWorks Spotlight marries precision 2D drafting and flexible 3D modeling with advanced lighting, visualization, and production tools. VectorWorks Spotlight does it all.

No Learning Curve Required:

Out of the box, and out of the gate. VectorWorks Spotlight was designed to think like you do, so you are up and running right away doing what you like best—designing.

Flexible To Fit Your Workflow:

With VectorWorks Spotlight you're not limited to a certain workflow, so you have the freedom to work on any size project in 2D or 3D. Design whatever you can dream up.

Plays Well with Others:

VectorWorks Spotlight can work fluidly with your colleagues' or your other programs, so there's nothing lost in the translation.

Customer-Focused for Your Success:

Your relationship with us doesn't end when you download the software. We provide many channels for you to get the information, training, tech support and networking you need.

Cost-Effective for Your Budget:

You won't find another professional design program that packs so much into such a small price. In one package, you get state-of-the-art tools and technology and the ability to work from conception to completion.

Proven Worldwide:

We listen to our customers and use their feedback to create a product that continually exceeds expectations, delivering superior design flexibility and world-class graphics. Join the more than 400,000 professional designers worldwide who use VectorWorks.

Spotlight Feature List:

Create dynamic 2D and 3D designs, glide through your projects with a tightly streamlined interface, and access extensive features and resource libraries. VectorWorks Spotlight offers the features you want in a comprehensive, intuitive software that will multi-task just like you do.

An array of 2D and 3D architectural objects provide intelligent ways to create sets and scenic elements. Objects include:
* Custom tables and chairs
* Podiums
* Columns and campanile’s
* Walls, doors, windows
* Stairs and ramps
* Cabinets
* Desks
* Shelving

Unlike other programs, Spotlight enables you to create stunning presentations right out of the box. Some of the presentation features are:
* Unlimited color choices
* Color palettes from Pantone®, Benjamin Moore®, Sherwin-Williams®, Resene®, Pittsburgh Paints®, Rosco®, and more
* Gradients
* Image fills
* Hatches

Intelligent 2D and 3D lighting instruments provide you with the flexibility to:
* Create shutter cuts
* Attach light accessories
* Use Multi-circuit instruments
* Layout focus points
* Draw 2D and 3D light beams

A unique Label Legend Manager allows you to easily layout custom instrument legends in rotated or non-rotated formats.

A photometer and photometric grid allows you to accurately display foot-candles or lux within specified lit areas and elevations.

Parametric straight and curved truss objects allow you to design any style of trussing with complete control over custom attributes such as:
* Chord style
* Configuration
* Length
* Rotation

Automated paperwork functionality in Spotlight allows you to seamlessly generate paperwork from your designs. With Spotlight paperwork you can generate:
* Inventory reports
* Magic sheets
* Color cut lists
* Instrument schedules
* Channel hookups
* Dimmer hookups
* Circuit hookups
* Color schedules

Sharing your drawings is simple with these import/export options:
* DXF/DWG
* ESP Vision
* Lightwright 4
* PDF
* ASCII
* .3DS
* Image files, including .jpg, .tif, .psd and more
* EPSF
* QuickTime and QuickTime VR
* .skp (Sketchup)
* .kml (Google Earth)
* .stl

Creating spectacular sets or scenes is easy using our custom tools and symbol libraries:
* Curtain objects
* Seating layout tool
* Entourage library
* Human figure tool
* Scene and set library

Live sectioning tools make it simple to create multiple types of section views that update live as changes are made to the design.

A suite of powerful free-form modeling tools make it easy to design custom objects and shapes using tools like:
* Boolean operations
* NURBS curves
* Loft surfaces
* Extrusions
* Extractions
* Protrusions
* Shells
* Solids

Extensive instrument symbol libraries ship with Spotlight from all the major manufacturers, so you don’t have to draw your instruments from scratch.
* Altman
* ARRI
* Chroma Q
* City Theatrical
* Clay Paky
* Coemar
* ESP Vision 3D
* ETC
* Hardware
* High End
* Lighting Positions
* LSD-Icon
* Lycian
* Martin
* Mole-Richardson
* Morpheus
* NSI Colortran
* Powerline
* Robert Juliat
* Scenic Elements
* Selecon
* Steel Shapes
* Strand
* Strong
* USITT
* Varilite
* Wybron
* Xenotech

A custom gobo tool allows you to create your own gobos in addition to gobo catalogs from these manufacturers:
* Goboland
* Lee
* Rosco
* Gam
* Apollo
* High End

Visualizing scenes in Spotlight is a breeze using a series of commands and rendering options available with the RenderWorks add on. Specifically you can:
* Manage scenes
* Animate scenes
* Create atmospheric effects
* Take advantage of volumetric lighting
* Make presentation boards using non-photo-realistic rendering options
* Render physical light with true light distribution files from major manufacturers