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LD Assistant 2008.5
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Overview
LD Assistant merges advance lighting algorithms with our industry standard 2D drafting & 3D modeling tool set. Designed for the Entertainment Lighting, Event Planning and System Intergration market, LD Assistant 2008.5’s user interface is familiar to more than 9,000,000 users in over 130 countries. The software successfully combines lighting, sound, video, set design and event planning into an ALL-IN-ONE product designed for users at any level of technical expertise.
2D Drafting Create Perfect Drawings & Plots
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Powerful 2D drafting tools are at the core of LD Assistant Ac 2008.5. LDA including built-in database with work sheets for producing paperwork and equipment lists. The same 2D & 3D tools found in LD Assistant are used by 9,000,000 designers and architects to create their working drawings. Changes to your 2D plan will automatically be reflected in your 3D model and in the schedule.
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LD Assistant Ac 2008.5 offers an extensive array of advanced menu commands and tools for 2D drafting, including on-screen feedback with the OSNAP, POLAR and OTRACK tools, which identifies end points, intersections, snaps and tangents as you draw.
Clear, clean plots
Produces clean plots every time. When you are ready to hand the design back to an architect, you won't have to worry about if it will open - or any other compatibility issues. LD Assistant Ac 2008.5 is built with AutoCAD® technology, so it's 100% compatible!
Schedules
Easily define the data for a schedule. When data is modified in the schedule, it is instantly updated in the drawing. Built-in spreadsheets and databases make it simple to create schedules. LD Assistant Ac 08 allows you to import and export lighting information to and from spreadsheet programs including Microsoft Excel® and Lightwright, or use our built-in spreadsheets and database technology to generate your paperwork.
LD Reports™
This Excel based workbook gives users all the flexibility Excel offers in an easy to use workbook. While the built-in schedules in LD Assistant Ac 08 are easy to use and are interactive with the drawing, at some point the data may need to be exported to another external database program. LD Reports offers ease of use, speed and flexibility in an easy to use Excel workbook.
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3D Modeling Explore Ideas More Intuitively In 3D
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With powerful 3D modeling, and presentation tools, you can design ideas in almost any form you can imagine. Simply push/pull faces, edges, and vertices to model
complex shapes, add smooth surfaces. 3D tools include true Boolean operations, Loft, sweep, extrude, extrude along path, revolve, 3D array, helix, slice, 3D polyline 3D Orbit and other high-end 3D CAD features.
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With LD Assistant 2008.5 you can design and shape the world of lighting with powerful and flexible 3D tools found in LD Assistant
software, one of the world’s leading Entertainment Lighting and Event Planning software products. With robust 3D tools that can create almost any shape imaginable, LD Assistant 2008.5 helps you intuitively explore design ideas.
3D Navigation tools allow you to view objects in a drawing from different angles, heights, and distances. Use the following 3D tools to orbit, swivel, adjust distance, zoom, and pan in a 3D view.
3D Orbit. Moves around a target. The target of the view stays stationary while the camera location, or point of view, moves. The center of the viewport, not the center of the objects you’re viewing, is the target point.
Constrained Orbit. Constrains 3D Orbit along the XY plane or the Z axis.
Free Orbit. Orbits in any direction without reference to the planes. The point of view is not constrained along the XY plane of the Z axis.
Continuous Orbit. Orbits continuously. Click and drag in the direction you want the continuous orbit to move, and then release the mouse button. The orbit continues to move in that direction.
Adjust Distance. Changes the distance of objects as you move the cursor vertically. You can make objects appear larger or smaller, and you can adjust the distance.
Swivel. Simulates panning with a camera in the direction that you drag. The target of the view changes. You can swivel the view along the XY plane or along the Z axis.
Zoom. Simulates moving the camera closer to an object or farther away. Zooming in magnifies the image.
Pan. Starts the interactive 3D view and enables you to drag the view horizontally and vertically.
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Lighting Design & Plots
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LD Assistant 2008.5 makes it easy to quickly create light, sound and video plots. Built with the designer in mind, LD Assistant Ac 2008.5 provides you with the easiest, most cost-effective way to design your lighting and production plots. With 2D drafting, 3D modeling, and powerful presentation tools, LD Assistant offers everything you need at a price you can afford.
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LD Assistant Ac 2008.5 offers an advance What You See Is What You Get library. LD Content library makes it easy to see what you're going to get - before you insert an object into your design. With more that 2,800 2D and 3D blocks in the new LD Content library and another 3,000 in the standard Block Navigator, LD Assistant has the largest library in our industry.
With the built-in spreadsheets and database technology provided by Design & Drafting, LD Assistant updates your drawing as you update your schedules. With the Built-in-Database, there is no need to export your work to any outside database / spreadsheets to generate paperwork.
No need for two libraries!
Some programs need two libraries, one library for Imperial and one for Metric. This is not the case with LD Assistant; one professionally drawn library works for both English and Metric, saving designers from having to convert their drawing to Metric before working with a European designer, saving both time and money.
With more than 24 years of creating CAD blocks for the Theatrical and Entertainment industry, Design & Drafting leads the way with CAD block design and technology.
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Production Create Room Layout & More
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It does’t get any easier than this, advanced production tools speed the creation of realistic seating arrangements, tables and chairs placement, curtains, back drops, drapery, doors / windows, stage stairs, security post and line, turn drawn lines into a truss with a simple mouse click - and much more. Track the complete event project with customized reports and paperwork.
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Advanced production tools speed the creation of realistic seating arrangements, tables and chairs placement, curtains, back drops, drapery, doors / windows, stage stairs, security post and line - and much more. Track the complete event project with customized reports and paperwork.
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Renderings Create Renderings That Look Like Photographs
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Create rendering that look like Photographs. With the latest in rendering technology, you can create stunning models in less time. Reflections and refractions generated way physically accurate. Indirect illumination techniques, like global illumination and final gathering, enhance the realism of a scene. With LD Assistant 2008.5 you will WOW your clients.
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Advanced rendering techniques allow users to render highly detailed and photorealistic images.
Ray tracing traces the path of rays sampled from the light source. Reflections and refractions generated this way are physically accurate.
Indirect illumination techniques, like global illumination and final gathering, enhance the realism of a scene by simulating radiosity, or the interreflection of light in a scene.
Final gathering is an optional, additional step used to improve global illumination (GI). It increases the number of rays used to calculate GI to smooth out and eliminate adverse lighting artifacts.
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Visualization Walk Through Designs In Real-time
Visualize your ideas like never before, walk and flying through a 3D drawing. Integrate actors into your designs and see them come alive in real-time as you walk through your creation, while you control the lighting with the built-in or your console. Have audio and video all playing back at the same. Do More With LD Assistant 2008.5
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Fully animated flythroughs, flyovers and walkthroughs allow you to see your show from any angle. By seeing all of this ahead of time, you avoid the onsite frustration of finding out something doesn't work.
Fully animated walkthroughs allow you to see your show from any angle. By seeing all of this ahead of time, you avoid the frustration of getting to a job site and finding out something doesn't work.
Walkthroughs are easily created through an intuitive dialog box.
With Pre-Animation, it easy to see what your animation will look like - before you spend time waiting for the program to output your animation, only to learn there was a problem and you have to do it again!
Do it right the first time, and leave your competition in the dust as they try and try again.
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Pre Visualization More Ways To Connect Your Console
Connect LD Assistant 2008.5 to ETC, GrandMA, Strand, Hog III, JANDS and other lighting consoles using Art-Net and say good bye to DONGLES forever.
No setup needed to connect your ETC console
With sACN, you just plug your LD Assistant computer into the same network as your console and way you go.
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LD Assistant 2010.5 comes with built-in support for 64 DMX-512 Universes, and can both send DMX and receive DMX through a dongle. Lighting consoles and lighting systems can be connected using sACN, Pathport and ENTTEC. Both Ethernet and USB interface are supported in LD Assistant 2008.5. Comming soon MA-Net, HOG III.
Once a plot has been created, the design is opened (with one button click) in LD Control, a real-time visualizer for pre-cueing and testing designs. Save thousands of scenes and cues within a single DWG file. Creating AVI movies of scenes and cues with the push of a button.
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System Requirements
LD Assistant Ac 2008.5
32bit OS 3D minimum requirements
•Intel® P4 3.0 GHz
• Windows XP Professional 32-bit (SP2), Vista Business 32-bit or Win 7 32 bit
• 2 GB RAM or greater
• 3 GB of disk space
• 1280x1024 32-bit color video display (true color)
• 250 MB or greater, OpenGL®-capable workstation class graphics card.
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