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

SoftSymbols™ Ocean Optics SeaChanger Pack

A major addition to the SoftSymbol™ product line, this download includes a four page object library, a matching pdf file that can be printed as an offline reference, and a pdf spreadsheet file displaying the default resource data extracted directly from the symbols.

The SeaChanger 3.6 Object Library

Ocean Optics SeaChanger Pack Also Includes

Color Engines: All four SeaChanger Color Engines are included; the original CYMG (Cyan • Yellow • Magenta • Green), the DM (same as the CYMG except the 4th "Green" wheel is swapped out for a Neutral Density Dimming filter), the SD (Studio Dichroic, with the C•Y•M wheels pushed to 100% saturation), and the SDDM (the Studio Dichroic with the 4th "Green" wheel again swapped for the Neutral Density Dimming filter).

Wattages: All ETC Source 4 symbols have the Field Template BlackButt™ designation to easily destinguish 750 watt fixtures from the old 575 watt units.

Expanded Choices: All instruments (including HID) now have two choices of degree designation; either with old-school slashes and lines in the nose of the instrument, or with number designations. And that’s ALL degree designations; 5, 10, 14, 19, 26, 36, 50, 70, or 90 degree.

The Latest: The library also includes, fresh from R&D, the new Source 4 Wash units, and the Source 4 Zoom ellipsoidals.

SoftSymbols™ SeaChanger Legacy
Legacy
$15 Mac or PC
(1.2MB) 5.2MG
(includes pdfs of symbols and data)
BUY

SeaChanger Primer

ColorEngine-CYMG & ColorEngine-DM

ColorEngine-SD

ColorEngine-SDDM & Sea-S4 575

Sea-S4 750

Sea-S4 575 & Sea-S4 750

Sea-S4-HID

Sea-S4-HID & Sea-S4-HID-DM

Sea-S4-HID-DM#

Sea-Wash & Sea Zoom

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