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Taking advantage of the topic from the recent live about location, I would like to request that a location-related field be added to the “Snapper” tool. We use this tool quite often on imported structures or when we want to create a fixation point. Since we already have the option to insert snappers, it would also be important to have the location information.

In theatre, I construct many custom lighting fixtures which (understandably) cannot be added into the Capture Library.  Therefore when creating plots, I mark the appropriate rig location with a Report Item. Within a Report Item, it is possible to enter in a Patch, and Circuit number.  However these are never printed anywhere on the plot - this makes it difficult for Riggers to identify where a specific custom unit should be positioned. It would be hugely beneficial to be able to also load in a...

There are two ways of using some kind of filter in the Report editor - one is based on layer filters set up in the program, and the second is separate Filtering in the directory tree in the Report editor (same as Grouping and Sorting). At this moment, this only hides objects with a zero value of filtering type. It would be great if this could also have a property to set some filter value, like filter only some specified locations or just some types of objects (especially useful when used with Ty...

'Select all fixtures on truss' selects all the fixture on an already selected truss. The shortcut (on max) is ShiftCMDU. Could you please add a shortcut so that at the moment of clicking on the truss or pipe while holding a certain key, the fixtures that are on that pipe or truss get selected right away The best option for me would be an autogroup function (so when truss gets moved, the fixtures are moved as well). The second best option would be this feature I requested above.

So I don't know what to call it but..  when you have a selection there's a row of tools in red under the sleection.   On the left is the 'selection' icon,  then the 'setting' icon,  the copy icon, then on the right there's little 'info' icon.    When you press this button it gives you all kinds of info like:  Channels, Total weight, total power etc...    can we please have a 'total DMX channels' line added to this   When I go to auto patch it shows me the total number of channels needed t...

Please add the ability to give individual fixtures a colour identification. This would need to allow split colours - for example yellow/green horizontal lines (earth tape) plus an additional colour Earth Red for example. This information would need to be avaliable in reports and optionally plots in an appropriate container.

Hello guys, hope you're all doing well! My name is Vinicius, I'm from Brasil, work at On Lighting Studios and I purchased Capture 2024 some time ago. I’ve been using it mainly to build lighting plots and similar projects. Recently, I started using Blender for 3D animation and realized that I could import these animations into Capture. Now, here’s the scenario I’m facing: I created an animation of a ballerina dancing across the stage, imported it into Capture, and programmed the lights using ...

Plot view I wish I could have the option to view the plot ortografisc type from the left, right, front, back, top, bottom when using Plot View and Plot Edit. The geometry can sometimes be confusing when only one side is visible. Currently, we can only choose the right side in Plot Edit, which may lead to misunderstandings.

To whom it may concern: I noticed that when importing an MVR my unit number is mapped, but my 'position' is not mapped. In the United States lighting field, particularly in theater, we use the 'position' to mean the 'location' of the fixture. So the first electric (a batten on stage) would have a unique unit number per position, but not per plot. The 'uniqueness' depends on the combination of the two fields. That's about as close to a UUID as possible in the workflow for most of our theaters....

Hello Capture team, Is it possible to convert the orientation of fixtures (pan & tilt value) from MVR to XYZ rotation when importing into Capture so that focused spotlights from other programs are imported correctly into Capture I sometimes work with large numbers of fixtures in Vectorworks, and when I port them to Capture, the entire alignment is lost. Or perhaps it would be possible to adopt the concept of focus points in Capture, but there has already been a post about this here. Max