SoftSymbols™ Educational Site License
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All Lighting Design Faculty teaching VectorWorks® CAD drafting
Field Template™
Simplifying your CAD drafting classes

Hey professors, how many of these situations sound familiar?

Lighting symbols and legends don’t match between students’ plots.
Lighting symbols and legends don’t match between classes.
Hand-traced symbols don’t match computer-generated symbols.
Students’ plots don’t look professional.
Every plot uses different symbology. None of the symbols make sense.

You need a solution that provides a matching, professional drafting standard.

ANNOUNCING the NEW SoftSymbols™ Educational Site License Package!

Standardize your lighting graphics between students, classes, and theatres.
The symbols match, whether they’re hand-traced or printed out on paper.
These professional symbols are used on Broadway, the West End, and around the world.

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The SoftSymbols™ Educational Site License Package starts with the following:

2D Drafting elements Library
USITT RP-2 Graphic Standards Library
Accessories Library
7 reference SoftMaps© showing the 3600 symbol library
The 60-page "Practical Guide to Spotlight Symbols"

Shelley Scales Library
Shelley Sections Library
Lighting Positions Library
101 pages of SoftData©

Add to that by choosing any five Vectorworks object libraries from this menu:

ADB
Altman
Altman Striplights
Arri
BriteLight
CCT
Chroma-Q
City Theatrical
Clay Paky
Coemar
Color Kinetics
Diversitronics
ETC Update 2011
[ETC] Selador 2011
GAM
High End
LSD
Lycian
Martin
Morpheus
NeXXus (Supervision)
NSI Colortran
NSI Colortran Archive
Reiche & Vogel
Robe
Robert Juliat
Rosco
Seachanger
Selecon
Strand
Strand Arichive
Strong
James Thomas
Vari-Lite
Wildfire
Wybron

Put them together, and this SoftSymbol™ Educational Site License Package can be installed on each light lab computer for only $50 a machine.

All symbols match between light plots and classes.
All applicable symbols match between printout and hand traced light plots.
Students are encouraged to copy files onto their personal computers.

Field Template’s commitment is to codify, clarify, and distribute USITT and other international drafting standards. Whether you use our templates or our object libraries, they are all the same.

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CONTACT US TO CONSTRUCT YOUR SOFTSYMBOLS™ SITE LICENSE PACKAGE!

(By purchasing a SoftSymbol™ Site License, you agree to the Terms of Use.)

Visa, MasterCard, American Express, cashier’s checks, and educational purchase orders are currently accepted. Sorry, we can’t process personal checks, and we can only process cashier’s checks in US dollars.

SoftSymbols™ Educational Site Licenses are valid for a three year period, initiated at the date of initial download. SoftSymbols™ Site Renewal is required prior to the end of the three year period in order to avoid site deactivation.

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