Design & Drafting deal with Pathway

USA - Building on the success of its LD Assistant software, lighting design software developer Design & Drafting has announced it has licensed Pathport Ethernet data protocol from Pathway Connectivity. Rufus Warren, president of Design & Drafting, commented: "Adding Pathway Connectivity's Pathport protocol to our Autodesk OEM product LD Assistant gives users the ability to communicate to any device attached to the systems network". He continued: "By plugging a computer into the network via an Ethernet port, this allows the CAD program (LD Assistant or AutoCAD with LD Assistant) to communicate with and control any of the devices while monitoring the progress from a remote location from within the CAD program in real time."

Lighting designer David Mollner, president of DMLDC, said: "Working with moving light fixtures is a big part of our business and being able to control them from a remote location and see it all happen in real time on our computers saves us both time and money. We especially like not having to send someone to the location to move the fixtures by hand. We can move the lighting to the correct location for a particular event and never have to leave our CAD station."

LD Assistant offers advanced DMX and Ethernet control with high-end lighting and rendering tools in a full 2D/3D CAD program. Rendering tools include Atmospheric Lighting & Lens Effects, Volume Light (smoke in the beam) and Lens Effects (Glow, Ring, Noise, Secondary, Star and Streak).

(Mike Lethby)

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