Adamsauder Posted November 5, 2018 Share Posted November 5, 2018 Hi everyone, I have a question i cant find an answer to. I work film and television, and i am evaluating vectorworks to see if this can help us streamline our patching and paperwork. The show i am on currently uses thousands of LED strip lights (also referred to as LED ribbon) and 24v/12v LED decoders. They are being used as accent lighting absolutely everywhere, door surrounds, walls, tables, anywhere/everywhere... With vectorworks, how would i go about adding these in? is there a way to make geometry of the set be considered a fixture? or am i stuck just assigning a dmx and fixture number to a decoder model in vectorworks? i would prefer to be able to previs in 3d if that is possible. Thanks in advance! -Adam 1 Quote Link to comment
JBenghiat Posted November 5, 2018 Share Posted November 5, 2018 Are you looking to track in paperwork, incorporate in Renderworks Renderings, or do actual revisualization in Vision or other pre-viz software (or all of the above)? Quote Link to comment
Adamsauder Posted November 5, 2018 Author Share Posted November 5, 2018 Hi Joshua, In a perfect world, all the above. We have been using Wysiwyg as well as a few other programs to generate paperwork for the last 2 years. and the solution we came up with was to draw a line to denote the strip, but that only works for 2d. We would love to be able to render in 3d, as well as use Vision if possible. Thanks! Quote Link to comment
salukitd Posted November 11, 2018 Share Posted November 11, 2018 Following! LED Tape light PIO should be a thing. #takemymoney 1 Quote Link to comment
BSeigel Posted November 12, 2018 Share Posted November 12, 2018 @Adamsauder There is a bunch of info here about how to take geometry and turn it into a glowing lighting device in Vectorworks. You can apply these same techniques to any objects you want to use to resemble LED Tape. I talked with one of our Vision engineers and you can essentially do the same thing in vision and make the LED Tape DMX controllable. Let me know if you'd like some more info on that process. Quote Link to comment
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