Creating and Editing Instruments

VectorWorks Spotlight lighting instruments represent more than simply a graphical symbol. An instrument contains design information, such as labels, focus, position, channel, and color. Instruments are labeled with lighting information according to the label legend format.

When placing instruments, either use one of the standard instrument symbols, or convert your own custom symbols to instruments.

Place the lighting instruments in their own design layer and in their own classes. A drawing structure based on layers and classes facilitates selecting, viewing, and printing the light plot.

Once the lighting positions have been created and the lighting instruments have been defined and placed, the instruments can be edited to conform to changes in the lighting design. The instruments can be combined into multi-circuit instruments. In addition, the focus point of the instruments can be defined, and photometric data can be obtained.