What others are saying

When I started using Vectorworks some 16 years ago I was fortunate to come across the Field Template SoftSymbol range not long after. They are the absolute benchmark for high quality, detailed and most of all clearly drawn symbols. They are the first ones I reach for when starting a new design and as a side by side comparison with the stock supplied VW symbols…well there is no comparison.

Max Conwell
Lighting Designer, Naked Eye Lighting Ltd., www.nakedeyelighting.com

Some [lighting designers] have always drawn their own symbols. If that’s the path you choose, that’s fine. For everyone else, there’s Steve Shelley and his SoftSymbols™. The range of products covered is remarkable. The price, given the amount of work that must be involved, remarkably low. Which is perhaps why they’re so widely used, particularly by lighting designers and their associates in America - a country that really does care about beautiful light plots. If you do too, check them out: this is a working classic, still in use daily...

Rob Halliday
Lighting Designer and Author for Light and Sound International, February 2020

What makes SoftSymbols so useful is that they are thoroughly researched, well made and above all, stick to some rigorous drafting standards that are maintained across the whole catalog.

Mark Doubleday
Lighting Designer, UK

Soft Symbols are my Vectorworks symbol library of choice, and have been since my tenure as Hubbard Street’s Lighting Director. Steve has created a product that is incredibly thorough, thoughtful, and well-organized. It looks great at any scale, is appropriate for every type of lighting gig, and could only have come from someone with his level of experience and attention to detail. It is an invaluable resource to me and will continue to be my go to library for the foreseeable future.

Matt Miller, Freelance Lighting Designer/Director
Chicago, IL

SoftSymbols are the symbol library of choice for the Lincoln Center Festival, and for all my other professional activities. They are cleanly built, graphically sophisticated, and the libraries are by far the most complete. There’s no other choice as far as I’m concerned.

Aaron Copp, Lighting Coordinator, Lincoln Center Festival, and freelance lighting designer
New York, NY

I did the Lab Rep Plot revisions with SoftSymbols. LOVE IT! So does the crew and the union House Elec. We also think the twenty-or-so production teams coming into the Lab this spring (who’ll receive print copies of this drawing) will love it too. I cannot tell you how happy I am to have SoftSymbols™ - I trust my layouts again, since your symbols are the same size as the objects they represent (DUH!), and my drawings look more like my drawings again. Woo hoo!

Martha Mountain, Freelance Lighting Designer
Washington DC

ETC LED 4.1 Object Library

ETC Tungsten 4.1 Symbols | ETC Selador Striplight 4.1 Symbols

ColorSource Cyc & ColorSource Linear 1

ColorSource Linear 1 & Linear 2

ColorSource Linear 2 & Linear 4

ColorSource PAR & ColorSource PAR Deep Blue

ColorSource PAR Pearl & ColorSource Spot jr's

ColorSource Spots & Spots with EDLT lens

ColorSource Spots# & Spots with EDLT lens (with numbers in the lens)

ColorSource Spots & Spots with EDLT lens; all Deep Blue

ColorSource Spots# & Spots with EDLT lens (with numbers in the lens); all Deep Blue

ColorSource Spots & Spots with EDLT lens; all Pearl

ColorSource Spots# & Spots# with EDLT lens (with numbers in the lens); all Pearl

ColorSource Series V Spots & Spots with EDLT lens

ColorSource Series V Spots# & Spots# with EDLT lens (with numbers in the lens)

ColorSource Series V VXT Spots & Spots with EDLT lens

ColorSource Series V VXT Spots# & Spots# with EDLT lens (with numbers in the lens)

Selador Desire D22 & Selador Desire D40

Selador Desire D40 & D40 (with 3D sitting on the floor)

Selador Desire D40XT & D40XT (with 3D sitting on the floor)

Selador Desire D40XTI & D40XTI (with 3D sitting on the floor)

Selador Desire D60 & D60 (with 3D sitting on the floor)

Selador Desire D60X

Selador Desire D60XTI

Irideon FPZ fixtures with Canopy components

Irideon FPZ fixtures with Hang & Track components

Irideon FPZ fixtures with Track components; Irideon WLZ fixtures with Canopy & Hang components

Irideon WLZ fixtures with Track components; Source Four LED Cyc fixtures

Source Four LED Cyc fixtures

ColorSource Cyc fixtures

Source Four, ColorSource, and fos/4 Fresnels

fos/4 Fresnels & Panels

Source Four LED Day Profiles; Source Four LED Day# (with numbers in the lens)

Source Four LED Day HD•S2

Source Four LED# Day HD•S2 & Source Four LED Lustr+

Source Four LED Lustr+ & LED# Lustr+ (with numbers in the lens)

Source Four LED Lustr•S2

Source Four LED# Lustr•S2 (with numbers in the lens); Source Four LED Mini•80

Source Four LED Mini•90; Source Four LED Studio HD

Source Four LED# Studio HD (with numbers in the lens); Source Four LED Tungsten

Source Four LED# Tungsten (with numbers in the lens)

Source Four LED Tungsten HD•S2

Source Four LED# Tungsten HD•S2 (with numbers in the lens)

Source Four LED Series 3 Daylight HDR Fixtures

Source Four LED Series 3 Daylight HDR Profiles with EDLT lens tubes, and with XDLT lens tubes

Source Four LED Series 3 Daylight Profiles with XDLT lens tubes; Source Four LED Series 3 Lustr X8 profiles

Source Four Series 3 Lustr X8 fixtures, and with EDLT lens tubes

Source Four LED Series 3 Lustr X8 Profiles with XDLT lens tubes

Source Four LED# Series 3 Daylight HDR Fixtures (with numbers in the lens)

Source Four LED# Series 3 Daylight HDR Fixtures with ELDT lens tubes, and with XDLT lens tubes

Source Four LED# Series 3 Daylight HDR Fixtures with XDLT lens tubes, and Lustr X8 Profiles {with numbers in the lens)

Source Four LED# Series 3 Lustr X8 Fixtures, and with EDLT lens tubes (with numbers in the lens)

Source Four LED# Series 3 Lustr X8 Fixtures with XDLT lens tubes (with numbers in the lens)

Source 4wrd•80+ Profiles, and with ELDT lens tubes

Source 4wrd•80+#, and with EDLT lens tubes (with numbers in the lens)

Source 4wrd•90+, and with EDLT lens tubes

Source 4wrd•90+# and EDLT lens tubes (with numbers in the lens)

Source 4wrd•Color Profiles

Source 4wrd•Color# Profiles (with numbers in the lens)

Source 4wrd PAR Color and PAR Color# (with text in the lens), Source 4wrd•PAR 80+

Source 4wrd•PAR 80+#, PAR 90+, PAR 90+# (with text in the lens)

Source 4wrd•PAR 90D+ & PAR 90D+# (with text in the lens)

xLED-Engines

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