marco wrote:Just curious, for what do u use this funtion, now with the moveble fixtures it seems obsolete to me.
The first way I use it still is when I have to cut from 4 trusses downstage to 3, because my fixtures are installed, I already have a patch built that takes 5 seconds to switch to, vs drag and dropping moving my fixtures around.
The other time I use it is when I wish to incorporate house/rental fixtures into my show. Let's say the have some LED pars, I can incorporate them in my advance plot without having to build profiles to them. I just give them an unused range of DMX to assign them and I can output to them.
Sure I use the drag and drop feature as well, but mostly for conventionals that I have built into my show and those conventionals are provided per my theatre lighting plot.
Yes, I can engineer other solutions, but softpatching is part of what we do as touring LDs as well.