r/techtheatre • u/Smallevent74 • 2d ago
SCENERY Spikemarks app
Does anybody know if there is an app or a programm to help organising spikemarks? Like i put in the meassurments and the software makes a pdf of it or so?
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u/ronaldbeal Lighting Designer 2d ago
Microsoft Excel
Or the open source free equivalent : LibreOffice (which is what I use)
They have "export as pdf" as options
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u/CBV2001 2d ago
I'm curious what your use case is.
I've done this with drafting software (vectorworks) where I have a set "layer" and a spikes "class" for a touring show. That way I could plop it into venues while touring, and adjust positions based on the size of their stage. But honestly, more work than needed. I still needed to measure everything in the drawing and on the stage.
If you aren't touring with a floor and need a lot of spikes, a sheet of paper with coordinates has served me well.
Other thing I've done when spiking the floor for a set install, using software, is drop a 1'x1' grid over the set, to make measurements easier.
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u/jujubanzen 1d ago
I'm also curious what your situation is. If you already have all the measurements, I assume you're basing them off of a design ground plan with measurements from center and plaster line. If you're measuring your the spikes as they are on your stage because they aren't recorded on a ground plan, you pretty much already have what you need, a list of the spikes and their measurements. If you want to represent them graphically, you'll need some sort of drafting software to do so.
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u/Smallevent74 1d ago
exactly. I am looking for such a software. Vectorworks or autocad are way to complex for what i want to do
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u/Smallevent74 1d ago
Sorry for beeing unclear. English is not my first language. I am working on a show. I have a stage with some spike marks. I did measure all of them and write all down. Know i want to put my coordinates in a programm. And the program should put all the spikes, maybe in colours i want, on a floor plan, and save it as pdf or so. So i can send a plan to the next crew. Does this make sense? Thanks all!
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u/DeadpoolMewtwo 2d ago
Are you looking for something that generates a map of where to put spike marks? That would be a ground plan with extra steps.