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product iconSavvy Position Label (and Data) 5

Labels for lighting positions and other rigging objects

  • Works directly with all Rigging Objects: Lighting Pipes, Lighting Ladders, Straight Truss, Curved Truss, and Truss
  • Schematic View support
  • Numerous configuration options accommodate your own graphic standards.
  • Note text can calculate coordinates, trim, length, and hung weight
  • Display summaries and counts for items attached to the position
  • Adds formulae that extract data from Rigging Objects for display in Worksheets and Data Tags
 
For Vectorworks 2025 and above
SKU: PL5 View all: , , Works with:

Version 5.0.2 - February 22, 2025 for Vectorworks 2025 and above

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Includes a 90-day free trial

Use this installer format with the Vectorworks Plug-In Manager
Full instructions

Professional: $30.00
Student: $5.00
Upgrades from $19.00

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The Savvy Position Label is a highly configurable plug-in object for labeling lighting positions. The Label, optionally, links to a Light Position Object, keeping the label in sync with the position name and displaying data in the Label’s note. 

Configuration

Choose from numerous configuration options, allowing the Label to confirm to your personal drafting standard. The Savvy Position Label supports text styles and classes for granular control of its presentation.
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Placement

The label is a separate object linked to the Lighting Position Object, so you can nudge or duplicate independently from the position. You can, optionally, have the label move with the position.
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Linking

Easy linking, with visual feedback
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Label Text

Because you don’t always display the same position name on the plot that you use in the paperwork, the Savvy Position Label lets you display the first word, last word, just number, or custom text, with a prefix or suffix. For example:
Pipe A displays as A
#2 Electric becomes 2E
while still automatically linking to the position name.
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Note

An optional note lets you add tokens to automatically display US DS and SL SR coordinates, location, trim height, pipe length, position weight, truss dimensions, and DMX footprint, which always stay up to date.
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Worksheet Formulas

New Worksheet Formulas retrieve the same data as notes for display in a worksheet. Formulas apply equally to all types of rigging object, allowing for reports generated from a single criteria.

Formulas include address count, attached object and component count, length, dimensions, position name, trim, position weight, total hung weight, total weight of loads, list of attached and component items with counts, and minimum, maximum, and sums of data for attached items.
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Data Tags

Data is no longer restricted to the note box. Worksheet formulas work in data tags as well, allowing for fully customized display of rigging object data.
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Fully Hybrid

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Style Support

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Compatible with Vectorworks Spotlight 2025 and up

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True Drop Shadows

PL3 Drop Shadows

 

Double Arrows

PL3 Double Arrows

 

Labels in Section Viewport annotations move with positions

PL 3 Section VP

 

More Notes data

PL 3 Notes Data

 

Truss dimensions, DMX footprints, and discrete trim offsets

Update notifications

Always stay up-to-date with the latest version

 

What’s New

Worksheet Formulas

Worksheet Formulas retrieve the same data as notes for display in a worksheet. Formulas apply equally to all types of rigging object, allowing for reports generated from a single criteria.

Formulas include address count, attached object and component count, length, dimensions, position name, trim, position weight, total hung weight, total weight of loads, list of attached and component items with counts, and minimum, maximum, and sums of data for attached items.

Data Tag Formulas

Data is no longer restricted to the note box. Worksheet formulas work in data tags as well, allowing for fully customized display of rigging object data.

Improved Clarity

Updated highlight and selection options clarify the Label’s connected position

Numerous Bug Fixes and Adjustments

Support for Vectorworks 2025 and Above

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Savvy Position Label Release Notes

Installation instructions

QWho is eligible to use a student license?  
A

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.

 
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QWhat happens if I upgrade or switch platforms?  
A

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.

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

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

  1. Make sure you have installed the latest version of the plug-in.  You can download the current release any time from the Downloads page.
  2. Make sure you are matching the correct registration code to the correct product.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. The code is case sensitive.
  6. All “0” are zeros. (Except for the Savvy Section product code, SO.)
  7. 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.

 
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QWhere are the plug-ins and help installed?  
A
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
 
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Please enter the last six characters of your Vectorworks serial number

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