With just a couple clicks, you can invite any other plotLight member to your project to unlock advanced collaboration features. Changes made by other users are highlighted in your project, and as the project leader you are always in complete control of the project.

Assign specific roles to other plotLight members (Master Electrician, Moving Light Programmer, etc.) and restrict users to a specific area of the project or to specific types of changes. Allow your team-members to edit areas of the project that fall under their domain, or simply prevent team-members from making any changes at all.

Require that team-members work within the confines of specific plotLight BRAIN components. For example, limiting to a specific Gearbox Component would ensure that team-members used pre-approved and available equipment.

Give tasks to your team-members based on their username or role, and then watch their progress as tasks are completed. Communication is easy in plotLight, allowing you attach conversations to specific areas of the project for better reference and tracking.

If you allow your team-members to make changes to your project, plotLight automatically logs each and every change they make. If you're unhappy with a change, you can easily undo it.

Not only can you attach conversations to specific areas of the project, you also receive a private 'wiki' chat space to organize important information or allow free-form conversations.

All plotLight projects are comprised of plotLight BRAIN Show, Venue, and Gearbox Components in addition to your specific project data.

If the project needs change, changing your design is easy. Simply swap the related plotLight BRAIN component and plotLight automatically calculates the difference.

You can choose to work with plotLight like any other paperwork tool – entering information directly into the design manager – and allow plotLight to organize your information into plotLight BRAIN components transparently. You still receive the power of swappable components even in this mode.

We truly believe in the social web, so plotLight allows you to share your plotLight BRAIN components with other users. Help promote your venue or business by creating plotLight BRAIN components, allowing other plotLight users to find out about your offerings and making it easier for them to utilize your advantages.

When creating a new project (or at any point thereafter), you can search the plotLight BRAIN to find user-contributed components to speed up the development of your project. For example, your venue may have created a plotLight BRAIN Venue Component for their space, saving you time and helping to prevent project errors.

There's more to the plotLight BRAIN than just components – the plotLight BRAIN also contains a library of thousands of lighting fixtures and equipment. When you are entering new equipment into a Gearbox Component, simply type in the name of the fixture and plotLight automatically knows the rest.

Store contact information and track details for key personnel to keep you productive and organized.

Make sure you remember important show requirements (i.e. “Act 1 Scene 1: DSR Special”) and track requirements to make sure they are fulfilled.

Track all of your important To-Do items in one place, and link To-Do items to specific project elements.

Store contact information and track details for key personnel to keep you productive and organized.

When using a Venue Component with a stored repertory plot, the rep plot automatically becomes the base for the project. You can even specify if changes to the rep plot are permitted or not.

Since some venues have their own collection of equipment, you can specify the Gearbox container which lists these fixtures.

Work with your venues more productively by managing the availability of venue resources and remembering important venue details. Venue Components can list resources (i.e. electrics or circuits) currently down for maintenance, and also provide information about the resources available at the venue.

Compile and utilize a complete list of the venue's available lighting positions, their physical locations in the space, as well as the resources available at each position. By utilizing this information, plotLight can make intelligent decisions about the space and assist you when swapping Venue components.

Detail the safe working loads of lighting positions and the wattage restrictions of circuits or dimmers, and then suggest or require that these restrictions are enforced.

With plotLight Trust, you can promote your venue directly within plotLight. By creating a comprehensive Venue Component for your space, designers are able to create designs for your space easier and faster. You also receive special ranking in plotLight BRAIN searches to help designers find your organization.

Store contact information and track details for key personnel to keep you productive and organized.

Since some equipment collections are only available at a specific venue, you can link a Gearbox Component to a Venue Component to ensure they are always used together.

When creating or expanding a Gearbox Component, you can utilize the plotLight BRAIN's massive fixture library. Simply begin typing the name of the fixture you are using, and plotLight automatically knows the rest. From the DMX capabilities of the fixture to its total weight, it all becomes part of your Gearbox Component.

Since a Gearbox Component lists a complete fixture collection, you are able to ensure that only available fixtures are used in a specific project. Prevent mistakes caused by utilizing more fixtures than are available and receive intelligent suggestions about available equipment.

Gearbox Components allow you to notate when fixtures down for maintenance, manage equipment availability, and assign maintenance duties to other team-members directly from within plotLight.

Let plotLight remind you when its time to complete routine maintenance or automatically assign these tasks to team-members.

As you complete your project, plotLight automatically calculates the consumables required – since plotLight understands your equipment, it knows the amount of gel or the gobo size required for a specific fixture. You can manage the usage of consumables, or create orders for additional product.

Track exactly which projects used exactly which consumables, and create a variety of reports including cost-per-project.

With plotLight Trust, you can promote a fixture collection directly within plotLight. By creating a comprehensive Gearbox Component for your equipment, designers are able to find rental houses and other businesses that provide the exact equipment their project requires. And you receive special ranking in plotLight BRAIN searches to help designers find your organization.

There's no need to remember your team-member's contact information or even their names! Simply tell plotLight which team roles (i.e. Master Electrician, Production Manager, etc.) should receive copies of paperwork and you're done.

Share your project data with non-plotLight members via LiveLinks – allowing your team-members to view your project from their web browser or web-enabled mobile device. They can generate the exact paperwork they need without your involvement, and even if you make changes to your project they will still receive the most current information.

LiveLinks not for you? We've got you covered with support for a wide variety of other export options.

The classic export option, you can generate print-ready paperwork and send it to your printer.

With FaxOut, plotLight will automatically fax copies of your paperwork to almost any fax machine in the world. Simply generate your paperwork in plotLight and specify that the paperwork should be faxed to the recipient. Moments later, your paperwork will arrive in the recipient's fax machine.

If you're ever in need of your completed paperwork however do not have access to the plotLight website, you can call our automated FaxOut Critical service. Using a special telephone PIN-code, you can have a copy of your paperwork immediately faxed to almost any fax machine in the world.

plotLight is a full-featured online tool that works directly from within your browser. You do not need to download any special software. As a result, you can access plotLight from almost any internet-connected computer in the world – whether at the library or the neighborhood cybercafe, plotLight is at your fingertips.

Unlike traditional software, when we've got new features or updates they're instantly available to all plotLight members. While other vendors charge you hundreds of dollars for a few new features, we give them to you free.

Don't worry about dropping your laptop and loosing all of your data. Your project data is safely and securely stored on plotLight's central servers, and is automatically backed up for your protection.

We understand that security is your concern, so as soon as you login to plotLight all of your project data is encrypted while being transmitted to plotLight.

Because plotLight is an online service, almost any internet-connected computer can access plotLight. There's no need to worry about carrying around key-drives or CDs of your data, simply login to plotLight and you're good to go.

Join the plotLight forum and be social with other plotLight members. Find new team-members to collaborate with, discuss industry products and trends, or just talk about the weather.

We built plotLight for you – so we want to know how you use plotLight. All plotLight members are encouraged to suggest new features, and the best feature suggestions will be opened up to member vote. And, as always, when new features are created they're added to plotLight at no additional charge.

If you're stuck and need a hand we're here to help. Our friendly CustomerFIRST team will assist you with any of your problems.

Most of us live and die by our handheld devices, and now you can access your project data and paperwork from most web-enabled mobile devices. In the rig and forgot that dimmer number? Pull out your cell phone and plotLight will give you the answer.

All plotLight paperwork is visible from plotLight mobile, placing the power of plotLight in your hand.

Need to make a quick change? You can make simple project changes directly from plotLight mobile.

Instead of searching for a pen, make notes to yourself or create new To Do items directly from your mobile device. Even assign tasks to other team-members from plotLight mobile.