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01 Stage and lighting CAD

Design the rig before you hang it.

Draw the plan, see it in 3D, check the power and print the paperwork. All in your browser.

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CamCad Design showing a night film set of a corner café in 3D, lit by LED panels on stands, with the camera and a bounce board

02 What it does

One drawing, plan and 3D, kept in step.

A Plan and 3D

Draw it flat, check it in the room.

A drafting plan with layers, classes and snaps, linked to a lit 3D view. Move a fixture in one and it moves in the other.

B Real light

Beams that carry real output.

Fixtures use published lux and candela, with colour temperature, tint and RGB, and a light meter to read the result on the floor.

C Power

Know it will run.

Generators, distros, cable runs with heights, wall power and battery stations, with a load check on the way.

D Paperwork

Plots and schedules out.

PDF plot, fixture schedule, DXF import for the venue plan and MVR export for other tools.

03 In the app

The plot you hand over, and the room it describes.

CamCad Design on a film set: the plan of a corner café on the left and the lit 3D view on the right
Film set: a night café, plan and 3D side by side
CamCad Design on a theatre rig: the plan with numbered fixtures on trusses and the lit 3D stage
Theatre: numbered fixtures, trusses, set

04 Libraries

Kit.

Researched specs for the gear people actually bring. Anything we could not verify is flagged in the app, so you know what to double check.

Lighting
  • ARRI, Aputure, amaran, Nanlux, Creamsource, Litepanels and Kino Flo
  • Modifiers: soft boxes, octas, domes, frames and textiles
  • Multi-light frames, each light angled on its own
Camera
  • 33 cameras and around 260 lens series
  • Camera frames and a look-through view
Grip
  • Avenger and Manfrotto stands with an overload check and recommendations
  • Scissor lifts, cherry pickers and Bronto-type trucks, with fixtures riding on them
Set and people
  • Set pieces, people for scale, and your own 3D models
  • Generators, distros, cables and battery stations

05 How it works

Three steps from blank stage to plot.

1 Start

Open the demo theatre or a blank stage.

Or import your venue as a DXF and draw on top of it.

2 Rig

Place fixtures, aim them, check the power.

Click to place, move the mouse to aim, click to set. The 3D view lights up as you go.

3 Hand over

Save it online and export the plot.

Log in and your drawings are kept in your account, ready to open from any computer.

Open the rig.

Free to try in your browser.

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