Benghiat Lighting Releases Savvy Symbol Key Plug-in for Vectorworks

Check it out all you Vectorheads, Joshua Benghiat has release another plug-in tool for Vectorworks called Savvy Symbol Key.  No, by using the Savvy Symbol Key you don’t automatically gain coolness points or extra savvyness, but you will work smarter.

The Savvy Symbol Key plug-in object quickly creates an accurate, customizable key to instrumentation.  The setup dialog shows the symbols in use in your Spotlight drawing so you never have to worry about an incomplete key.  You can select and order your symbols as well as set several text, border, spacing and alignment attributes.  With the click of a check box you can show wattages, weights, lamp types and counts.  Counting can be subtotaled to count bodies vs lenses.  Symbols which have the same Instrument Type are counted together, allowing for alternate versions of a single type.  Multi circuit devices are counted properly.

The Savvy Symbol Key Plug-in is available for both Vectorworks 12 and Vectorworks 2011.  To learn more about the Savvy Symbol Key Plug-in or to download a demo version, head over to www.benghiatlighting.com.  If you try, and like it, buy it.  The standard version goes for $19.99 USD.  The student version runs half that at $9.99 USD.  If you are an educator, contact Joshua directly.

Benghiat Lighting Introduces Source Four Savvy Section for Vectorworks

Joshua Benghiat has been hard at work again developing his latest Vectorworks Plugin, Source Four Savvy Section. You may remember Joshua’s other Vectorwork plugin, Beam Draw 3. With Source Four Savvy Section, Joshua has made it easy to tweak and adjust your lighting fixtures with in Vectorworks.  You can adjust the light fixture to any angle you want, both pan and tilt.  Say in Section View you want a source four going across stage to represent correctly on you drawing, no problem, that function is built into the plugin.

What about adding fixture accessories like sidearm tee’s, scrollers or top hats.  Simple, select the fixture, add the accessories you want from the object info window and done.  The plugin takes care of the rest. Take a quick look at what the plugin does in a short YouTube video that Joshua did with the plugin.  Oh, and don’t bother turning up your speakers, there is no sound.

The Source Four Savvy Section Plugin from Joshua Benghiat is wrapping up developement as you read this.  Joshua hopes to have the plugin avilable at the end of July. The standard version of the plugin runs $14.99.  There is also a student version that runs $4.99.  Yes, you do need a copy of Vectorworks which you can pick up from Nemetschek. To learn more about Joshua’s plugin, visit his web site at www.benghiatlighting.com.