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BUYERS GUIDE<br />
Manufacturer<br />
Web Address<br />
Capture Sweden<br />
www.capturesweden.<strong>com</strong><br />
Product Name<br />
Capture Polar, Basic<br />
Edition<br />
Capture Polar,<br />
Extended Edition<br />
Stand-alone?/<br />
supporting software<br />
CAD Paperwork Rendering<br />
Real-time<br />
Visualization<br />
no. of Elements in<br />
Symbols Library<br />
3D drawing?<br />
Compatible File Formats<br />
stand alone Y Y N Y 2,500+ Y GIF,JPG,BMP<br />
stand alone Y Y N Y 2,500+ Y GIF,JPG,BMP,DXF,DWG<br />
Cast Software<br />
www.wysiwygsuite.<strong>com</strong><br />
or www.viviendesign.<strong>com</strong><br />
Design & Drafting<br />
www.LDASSISTANT.COM<br />
www.AutoBLOCK2000.COM<br />
Field Template<br />
www.fieldtemplate.<strong>com</strong><br />
FocusTrack<br />
www.focustrack.co.uk<br />
WYSIWYG Report Y Y Y N N 18,000 Y<br />
WYSIWYG Design Y Y Y Y Y 18,000 Y<br />
WYSIWYG Perform Y Y Y Y Y 18,000 Y<br />
WYSIWYG Console<br />
Edition<br />
Y Y Y Y Y 18,000 Y<br />
Vivien Y Y Y Y<br />
Conceptual<br />
ONLY<br />
6,000 plus<br />
unlimited access<br />
to Sketchup’s 3D<br />
Warehouse<br />
LD Assistant Ac 08 stand alone Y Y Y Y 8,000 Y<br />
LD Assistant PL 08<br />
Plug-in Requiring<br />
AutoCAD2008<br />
AutoCAD2009<br />
Y<br />
WYG (WYSIWYG), VVN (Vivien), SKP<br />
(Sketchup), DXF, DWG, Lightwright,<br />
Excel, JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG<br />
WYG (WYSIWYG), VVN (Vivien), SKP<br />
(Sketchup), DXF, DWG, Lightwright,<br />
Excel, JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG<br />
Native AutoCAD; DWG, DXF, wmf,<br />
eps, dxx, 3ds, avi, mov, mpg, wmv,<br />
ASCII, xls, ies, txt, bmp, jpg, png<br />
Y Y Y Y 8,000 Y Native AutoCAD DWG & DXF<br />
AutoBlock2000 AutoCAD & AutoCAD Lt Y Y N N 8,000 Y Native AutoCAD DWG & DXF<br />
SoftSymbols V3<br />
Symbol libraries for<br />
VectorWorks<br />
Y light plots N N 3,500<br />
2800 hybrid<br />
symbols<br />
FocusTrack stand alone N Y N N N/A N<br />
native to VectorWorks and SoftPlot,<br />
can be used with Spotlight or<br />
AutoPlot<br />
Import from Lightwright, VectorWorks<br />
Spotlight, Strand 300,500-series<br />
showfiles, ETC Eos showfiles (beta), soon:<br />
MA grandMA & Strand Palette showfiles<br />
Future Light by<br />
West Side Systems<br />
www.future-light.<strong>com</strong><br />
Virtual Light Lab 3<br />
stand alone but needs<br />
current version of<br />
Quicktime<br />
N N N Y n/a JPEG<br />
John McKernon Software<br />
distributed by City Theatrical<br />
www.mckernon.<strong>com</strong><br />
www.citytheatrical.<strong>com</strong><br />
Lightwright 4 Stand alone N Y N N N<br />
Microsoft Windows® 98 NT/2000/<br />
ME/XP or later; Mac OSX 10.2<br />
(Jaguar) or later<br />
LightConverse Ltd.<br />
www.lightconverse.net<br />
www.atfull.<strong>com</strong><br />
LightConverse stand alone Y Y Y Y<br />
500+ 3D fixture<br />
models; user can<br />
also add their own<br />
Y<br />
DXF, X (DirectX file), 3DS, 3DL; all<br />
picture and movie formats (jpeg,<br />
bmp, avi, etc.)<br />
Microlux Light stand alone (PC) Y Y N N 1,250+ N<br />
MLX(Microlux), DXF, DWG, BMP,<br />
XML<br />
LuxArt Conception Inc<br />
www.luxart.<strong>com</strong><br />
Microlux<br />
Professional<br />
stand alone (PC) Y Y Y N 1,250+ Y<br />
MLX(Microlux), DXF, DWG, BMP,<br />
XML<br />
Microlux Vision stand alone (PC) Y Y Y Y 1,250+ Y<br />
MLX(Microlux), DXF, DWG, BMP,<br />
XML<br />
Martin Professional A/S<br />
www.martin.<strong>com</strong><br />
Martin<br />
ShowDesigner<br />
(MSD)<br />
stand alone Y Y Y Y 14,000+ Y .scn, .mlb, .dxf, Xfile<br />
Nemetschek North America<br />
www.vectorworks.net<br />
Vectorworks<br />
Spotlight<br />
stand alone (Mac & PC) Y Y Y Y 2,500+ Y<br />
VWX, MCD, DWG/DXF, <strong>PDF</strong>,<br />
Lightwright, ESC, SketchUp, KML,<br />
3DS, XML,Excel, Filemaker, ASCII,<br />
PSD, EPS, BMP, TIFF, JPG<br />
Stage Research, Inc.<br />
www.StageResearch.<strong>com</strong><br />
SoftPlot stand alone Y Y N N 3,000+ N<br />
SoftPlot 3D stand alone Y Y Y Y 3,000+ Y<br />
LighShop Online stand alone N N N N 3,000+ N<br />
Light Grid stand alone N N Y Y n/a Y<br />
DXF,DWG, JPG, BMP, GIF, EMF, PLT,<br />
HTML<br />
DXF,DWG, JPG, BMP, GIF, EMF, PLT,<br />
HTML<br />
ZZYZX, Inc.<br />
www.espvision.<strong>com</strong><br />
Vision 2.3 stand alone N Y (patch data) Y Y<br />
hundreds (new<br />
ones added “almost<br />
daily”)<br />
some<br />
native: ESC or v2s/<strong>com</strong>patible: max,<br />
mcd, DWG, DXF, 3DS<br />
48 <strong>PLSN</strong> SEPTEMBER 2008
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