Gobo artwork that reads straight on the wall.

What it does

• Keystone, worked out

  Set the fixture position and aim in your own coordinates, Vectorworks focus points included, and pick the wall, floor or a custom plane. Type your words or upload an SVG logo: the artwork comes out pre-distorted, so it lands square.

• Checked before you order

  It warns when the image spills out of the beam or off the edge of the wall, strokes are too thin to cut, enclosed shapes would fall out of steel, or the focus spread is too wide.

• Ready for the maker

  Exports a 1:1 SVG, PDF and DXF with a title block, scale bar and orientation marks, plus the keystone figures a maker such as Rosco asks for: projected image size, perpendicular throw and offsets. It knows 84 fixtures, 52 of them moving lights with custom-gobo slots.

• Two to four fixtures, one image

  Stack the same image from several positions for more punch, to fill shadows or to cross-fade. Each fixture gets its own gobo, worked out so they all land on top of each other, and every sheet says which is which. Re-aim one fixture and the others follow.

• Open your plot

  Read an MVR file from Vectorworks, grandMA or Capture, locally in your browser. Pick up to four fixtures and it brings in their positions, focus points, rigging position names and fixture types, with surfaces taken from the 3D set.

• Moving lights and a focus card

  Pan and tilt DMX values for moving lights on any mounting, saying when a target is out of reach (check direction at 50% pan and tilt on the fixture). Print a focus card for each fixture, and share a project as a link that never touches a server.

• Curves and corners

  Project onto a cyc (raked or upright), round a column, across a corner or down a wall onto the floor. The image is laid out on the set so a tape measures true, or made to read flat from one seat.

• Shape it on the surface

  Bend text into an arc, pin the corners by hand, or have it read square from one seat: the classic trick for floor projections seen from the stalls. The gobo is worked out to land exactly that shape.

• See it before it's cut

  A face-on preview with real dimensions, a 3D view of the rig from the fixture or the seat (with a compass for stage directions), a brightness map, a focus map showing where the gobo will be sharp, and PNGs of the wall image and the gobo for a visualiser such as Capture.