World leading Theatrical, Entertainment Lighting and Event Planning software company Design & Drafting today shipped LD Assistant Ac 2010 and AutoCAD® 2010 plug-in LD Assistant PL 2010 software. Its latest CAD products are optimized to help save time and money throughout the entire project lifecycle by adding features that improve efficiencies for Entertainment Lighting Designers and Event Planning.
"We've improved the speed and efficiency of going from a lighting plot to real-time visualization," said Rufus Warren. "By using only one CAD program to do plots, renderings, walkthroughs and pre-visualization, LD Assistant cuts cost and learning time."
We have added a host of new features in LD Assistant 2010 including a new user interface that uses ribbons to make the design process fast and easier (see above). The ribbon is displayed automatically when you click on a menu tab, providing a compact palette of all of the tools necessary to create your design. Ribbons contain many of the same commands that were once available on the LDA dashboard. For example, the Attach Light Data command that was once available on the LDA dashboard’s panel is now available on the ribbon; Light Data is located on the Lighting tab.
With this simple interface shown at left, LD Assistant users can create and modify the ribbon panels as they need.
The ribbon can be displayed horizontally or vertically. The horizontal ribbon is displayed across the top of the file window. You can dock the vertical ribbon to the left or right of the application window. The vertical ribbon can also float in the file window or on a second monitor.
For users who are more familiar with the classic LD Assistant menus (shown below) and prefer to use the drop down style, we have included a workspace switching button (shown at left) at the bottom of the drawing area .
