This agreement lets Field Template realize one of their corporate goals according to Fred Allen, general partner of Field Template: "Since the beginning, our goal has been to distribute SoftSymbols across all CAD programs, striving to create a single symbol standard for the entire industry. This alliance with SoftPlot is a significant step towards achieving that goal."
SoftPlot is a Windows-based lighting design application that creates graphic light plots and support paperwork simultaneously in real time that is designed for all levels of lighting design, from theatre to film to TV. Field Template's SoftSymbols is a CAD-based lighting symbol package that uses symbols designed by Steven Shelley based on the patented icons used to create his award-winning series of Field Templates. Unlike any other symbol library a SoftSymbol and a hand-traced Field Template symbol of the same lighting fixture are identical in the digital and analogue worlds, the company says.
Bill Kirby, SoftPlot developer, points out that the addition of SoftSymbols continues their commitment to offering their users the features they really want. "We've had our eye on SoftSymbols for some time. Their symbols have a clean, easily recognizable style. They also started appearing in lots of drawings, and our clients started requesting access to them."
(Lee Baldock)
