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Having recently gone though the very tedious process of building a grid-like hanging structure over a whole theatre, so it could hang lights, report location etc, it would be a huge step forward if you would allow lines imported from a CAD program to auto-magically become hanging pipe structures. WYSIWYG has had this feature since at least R26 (about 2011). Theatres that have this kind of configuration and structure are common where I'm from, and I am not wanting to go through this again.......

Would be great if when selecting a layer in the selected items window, there was an option in the drop down layer menu to just add a new layer

Would be great for Capture to use the built in macOS colour picker tool as this would allow input of hex colours as well as using the colour picker tool to grab a colour from a logo etc

Is there anything you can do about the slow downloads of the library Could you either improve download speeds (server side) or make downloads in the background possible It takes a very long time at the moment in which you cannot do anything else.

The fixture reports have an optional field called 'Notes'. I'd find it useful to also have this column to the standard Fixtures Tab in the Project window.  Thanks rabbit

I've seen a few videos of people working in Capture where the Project Window is a darker colour, as opposed to glaring white. I'd also like to take the glare off the plot view, and paper screens. I don't know if these were Mac or Windows systems; I'm on windows 11 for the moment, and to mess with the themes and to try to alter the system colours is the most frustrating and useless experience that cuases one to lose the will to live...... Please allow in Options for the user to select these ...

Its very useful to be able to assign a unique ID to every fixture. This ID travels with it wherever it goes, and only disappears if the fixture is deleted from the file / rig altogether, so it is a cross check when it looks like something is out of order etc.  This is also invaluable if the show is to be transferred to another theatre, tour, re-mounted some years later etc. Capture must anyway assign an internal unique ID for everything in its database; maybe you could just allow in the case o...

In Capture the Unit property seems to be a catch all for many kinds of annotation. I'd like to see it become just the Fixture hanging position ID, in line with standard LX drafting practice, and other LX lighting programs. Whatever numbering convention one chooses to use, they all have in common that the fixtures are numbered sequentially on a defined hanging location, bar, boom etc.  When the Designer removes a fixture from that bar, or alters its position with the line of fixtures, everythin...

It would be awesome to be able to specify a view’s model position. So you could specify that the “0” line of your model would appear in the centre of the view box. This would make lining up PLAN / FRONT / SIDE views on a print plot a lot easier. At the moment you just have to eyeball the position and get them somewhere near. My OCD means I want it to be perfectly lined up.