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

grandMA Lighting 3.6 Pack

The grandMA Lighting 3.6 Pack introduces the entire grandMA console product line, presenting all current Series 1 and Series 2 consoles as hybrid symbols that consist of 2D and 3D components.

The grandMA Lighting 3.6 Object Library

grandMA Lighting 3.6 Pack Also Includes

SoftMap™: A pdf map matching each object library. The pdf can be printed out to provide a hard-copy reference for all the symbols, regardless of printer.

SoftData™: The latest information outlining the basic capabilities of each console, listed in the Console Info Record.

• The grandMA Lighting 3.6 Legacy Pack is designed in the Vectorworks 2008, 2009, and 2010 environments.

• The grandMA Lighting 3.6 Vw2011-Vw2015 Pack is designed in the Vectorworks 2011-2015 environments.

• The grandMA Lighting 3.6 Vw2016 Pack is designed in the Vectorworks 2016 environment.

• The grandMA Lighting 3.6 Vw2017 Pack is designed in the Vectorworks 2017 environment.

grandMA Lighting 3.6 Pack
Legacy for Vw2008-Vw2010
$20 Mac or PC
(1.3MB) 2.1MG
(includes pdfs of symbols and data)
BUY

grandMA Lighting 3.6 Pack
Enhanced for Vw2011-Vw2015
$20 Mac or PC
(1.3MB) 1.9MG
(includes pdfs of symbols and data)
BUY

grandMA Lighting 3.6 Pack
Enhanced for Vw2016
$20 Mac or PC
(3.9MB) 4.6MG
(includes pdfs of symbols and data)
BUY

grandMA Lighting 3.6 Pack
Enhanced for Vw2017
$40 Mac or PC
(3.9MB) 4.6MG
(includes pdfs of symbols and data)
BUY

Series 2 grandMA2 full-size, grandMA2 light, and grandMA2 ultra-light console & grandMA2 fader wing, grandMA2 Network Processing Unit, and grandMA2 Replay Unit.

Series 1 grandMA full-size, grandMA light, and grandMA ultra-light console, grandMA pico and grandMA micro console & grandMA Network Processing Unit and grandMA Replay Unit.

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