Beam Draw 3

For Vectorworks 2016–2017

SKU: BD3 View all: BeamViz, Plug-ins

Version 3.5.0 - November 30, 2001 for Vectorworks 2016–2017

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Use this installer format with the Vectorworks Plug-In Manager
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Professional: $69.00
Student: $9.99
Upgrades from $29.00

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	Interactively draw lighting beams. The beam size and shape adjust as you drag and nudge the beam.
	Adjustable properties include: Position Height, Distance to C-Clamp, Field Angle, Beam Angle, Peak Candela, Face Plane Height, Show/Hide Beam on Floor.
	Completely stand-alone. Beam Draw lets you concentrate on worksheeting your rough plot — save drafting for later. You can use Beam Draw to easily determine ideal instrument placement in AutoPlot, SpotLight, or any blank document.
	Easily convert beam objects into SpotLight lighting devices.
	Use Beam Draw PAR to visualize elliptical beams with any bottle rotation, in both 2D and 3D.
	View the beam’s ellipse in plan view and cone in 3D.
	Focus from any position height to any focus height, even if the light focus up or hits the face plane in an open parabola.
	Visualize shutter cuts. You can drag the shutters right in the drawing!
	View valuable data on how your light focuses.
	Beam Draw Section lets you visualize beam sections in a 2D view. This is also a fully interactive tool. Beam Draw Section will even draw a figure for you, and show you what portion of the section includes the full width of your focus area.
	Beam Draw will let you read photometric data from your symbols, letting you easily try different unit types.
	Beam Draw will detect the Z height of a lighting position below it, but only when you ask!
	Static mode to easily duplicate beams into a system of lights.
	Command to reverse and repeat beams. It even will R&R shutter cuts and bottle rotations.
	If you are working with one system of beams at a time, you can easily channel them, and the data will be transferred when you convert the beams to Spotlight lighting devices.
	Quickly file away beams in a system to their own, hidden layer.
	Includes properties to let you view the beams in a rough plot mode.
	Beam Draw Magic pulls position and channel data from your beams for use on a sheet layer magic sheet. You can even adjust your channel numbers to accommodate similarly focused or reverse-and-repeated systems.

QWho is eligible to use a student license?

In order to use the plug-in at the student rate, you must use the free, watermarked, educational Vectorworks license.

Educators with a standard Vectorworks license must purchase a standard license as well. Please contact us if you would like a time-sensitive demo code for demonstrating a plug-in to your class.

If you have a CAD lab of five or more seats, please contact us to see if you are eligible for a free license.

QWhat happens if I upgrade or switch platforms?

All JBLD plug-ins are platform as well as version independent. You may use your license with any version of Vectorworks from the minimal supported version up.

They are, however, linked to a specific seat of Vectorworks, meaning you may use them with a specific Vectorworks serial number and its subsequent upgrades.

Savvy Series licenses are linked to a specific version of Vectorworks. For example, if you have the 2020 Savvy Subscription Series, it will work in perpetuity with Vectorworks 2020.

QWhen I enter my registration key, the OK button remains grayed out....

If you enter a registration code but the “OK” button remains grayed, please double check the following:

Make sure you have installed the latest version of the plug-in. You can download the current release any time from the Downloads page.
Make sure you are matching the correct registration code to the correct product.
If you purchased a student version (registration begins with “A”), it will only work with an E series, free educational license of VectorWorks. You can purchase an upgrade to a full version of the plug-in.
If copying and pasting in your registration code, make sure there are no spaces or carriage returns at the beginning or end of the field. If you use the arrow key to move to the ends of the field, you may catch the extra characters.
The code is case sensitive.
All “0” are zeros. (Except for the Savvy Section product code, SO.)
Make sure your Vectorworks seat registration is correct. In your plug-in registration, nnnn-nnnn-XXXXXX-nnnn, XXXXXX should match the last six characters of your Vectorworks serial number.

If you have tried all these steps, and your registration code still produces an error, there will be a 5 digit code next to the registration field. Please follow this link and enter it into the troubleshooting formfollow this link and enter it into the troubleshooting form.

If you do not see the error code, make sure you have updated to the latest version, and have entered your user name.

If there is still no error code, you have entered a registration with too many or too few characters.

QWhere are the plug-ins and help installed?

By default, the plug-ins, libraries, and workspaces all get installed in your Vectorworks user data folder.

On the Mac this is: ~/Library/Application Support/Vectorworks/{version number}

On Windows, this is: /users/{user_name}/Application Data/Nemetschek/Vectorworks/{version number}

You can confirm the location that Vectorworks looks for user data. Open Vectorworks preferences (Tools>Options>Vectorworks Preferences…). Switch to the User Folders tab. You will see the setting for your user data folder.

Note, if you are confirming installation via the Plug-in Manager, compiled plug-ins appear in the Built-in tab, not the Third-party tab

	NEW Easily convert beam objects into SpotLight lighting devices.
	NEW Visualize shutter cuts. You can drag the shutters right in the drawing!
	NEW View valuable data on how your light focuses.
	NEW Beam Draw Section lets you visualize beam sections in a 2D view. This is also a fully interactive tool. Beam Draw Section will even draw a figure for you, and show you what portion of the section includes the full width of your focus area.
	NEW Beam Draw will let you read photometric data from your symbols, letting you easily try different unit types.
	NEW Beam Draw will detect the Z height of a lighting position below it, but only when you ask!
	NEW Command to reverse and repeat beams. It even will R&R shutter cuts and bottle rotations.
	NEW If you are working with one system of beams at a time, you can easily channel them, and the data will be transferred when you convert the beams to Spotlight lighting devices.
	NEW Quickly file away beams in a system to their own, hidden layer.
	NEW Includes properties to let you view the beams in a rough plot mode.
	NEW Beam Draw Magic pulls position and channel data from your beams for use on a sheet layer magic sheet. You can even adjust your channel numbers to accommodate similarly focused or reverse-and-repeated systems.

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