Diagrams

Diagrams represent physical layouts of your setups.

• They can include lighting, camera, actors, and other items

• The end result is usually a saved image

• Use Keyboard Shortcuts to speed up your work

Managing Diagrams in Projects

Navigate to the Diagrams & Lists tab in a Project to see its Diagrams:

• New Diagram → creates a new blank Diagram in the Project

• Duplicate → makes a copy of the selected Diagram and all its contents

• Delete → deletes the selected Diagram

• (Click and drag Diagram) → move Diagram to another Project

• Undo/Redo → undo and redo changes made to Diagrams

Diagram editor

To open a Diagram, select it, then click it or press Enter to present the Diagram editor:

The fundamental concepts are:

The “canvas”

Your workspace to build in.

• Pinch to zoom, scroll with two fingers to move around

• Hover or right-click to reveal Tooltips & Pop-Up Menus and find more features

Items

All types of objects that can be added:

• Actors represent people, which can be moved around and can “target” other items

• Cameras can move and target, but also see a field-of-view based on format and lens focal length

• Fixtures represent lights, which can also target, and set DMX channel and address

• Pipes represent a long item that’s resizeable in one dimension (like truss or dolly track)

• Arrows represent motion; connect them to other items and create complex paths

• Markup, Text, Images allow you to annotate your Diagrams with items that don’t represent real-world objects

• Floor plan multiple types of objects, including walls, doors, windows, stairs, and gaps

Layers

How the different components of your diagram are displayed

• Types - allows you to customize your visibility based on item type, without making destructive changes

  • Hide or lock all items of the same type here

• Items - rearrange and Group items to define how they display and overlap

Add Item

Add new items from the built-in library or Cloud Library.

• Drag-and-drop items onto the diagram, or use the “Add” button

• Hold Shift while dragging an item on top of another item (or use the “Swap” button) to “swap” it out

  • This changes the item, but keeps the old items properties (color, DMX, etc)

Details

View and change an item’s properties.

Editing items

• Any item on the Diagram can be dragged to move

  • If you can’t select it, check whether it’s locked

• Move, rotate, hide, or format its Text Label

  • Use the bottom action button to hide/show the label as needed

  • If the label is hidden, you can change it from the Layers or Details sidebar

  • Double-click or use the Enter key to toggle text editing, and format the text as needed

    • Labels can format Color, Text Size, Bold, Italic, Underline, Strikethrough – no lists or justification (like Text items Markup, Text, Images)

    • Label formatting applies to the whole label text, not only the selected part

• Multi-select items by:

  • Dragging a box around them with one finger

  • Use four fingers to create a selection box

  • Hold the Shift or CMD key to select additional items

• For targeting-enabled items, drag the crosshairs to “focus” the item

  • If pointed to another item, the item will “target” that item and point at it wherever either of them move

  • If pointed to empty space, the item will just have its rotation set

• For items with rotation buttons, drag the button to rotate the item

• For items with control points, drag to perform specific functions

  • Item text labels → move the label relative to the item

  • Pipes, Images, Text → resize the item

Groups

Combine multiple items for better organization and easier editing

Diagram editor settings

In the bottom left, decide how your device displays Diagrams:

• Units of measure - switch between feet and meters by tapping the button that says “ft” or “m”

• Dot grid - display a grid of dots as a scale reference, or hide it

• Snap - ensure items align with each other, and resize to whole numbers

Bottom actions

When an item is selected, the Diagram editor displays relevant actions at the bottom of the screen:

• Color → choose among item colors, for stroke and fill

• Text size → change the size of the text

• Line width (only Arrows and some Floor Plan items) → change line thickness

• Line style (only Arrows) → change between solid and dashed or dotted

• Change lens (only Cameras) → open the lens picker

• Frame image (only Cameras) → show or hide the frame image view

• DMX (only Fixtures) → toggle whether DMX controls are displayed for that Fixture

  • See DMX keypad for more details

• Duplicate → make an exact copy of the selected item

• Delete → delete the selected item

Cut/copy/paste

Items can be cut or copied from any Diagram, and pasted to any other Diagram (subject to privacy settings in your Scenario account)

• Use keystrokes CMD X for cut, CMD C for copy, and CMD V for paste

• Perform from a pop-up menu as well, plus additional options:

  • Paste here → centers the pasted item at the click point

  • Paste to swap → pastes to replace the current selected item

Undo/redo

Use the buttons in the bottom right corner to undo and redo your actions, or use the keystrokes CMD Z and CMD SHIFT Z

Projects sidebar

Display all Projects, or recently opened Diagrams and Lists, for fast switching.

Layers sidebar

Display all items on the Diagram

• Select any item

• Sort and filter for easy use

• Group items for more control

• Rearrange items to control overlapping

Add Item sidebar

Add new items to your Diagram

• Search and filter to find what you’re looking for

• Drag-and-drop to add or swap the item onto the Diagram

Details sidebar

Edit the properties of an item

• For any selected item or Group (and for the Diagram itself if nothing is selected)

• Edit name and notes

• Change size and rotation numerically

• Lock - prevent the item from being selected or moved from the Diagram

• Hide - make the item invisible on the Diagram

• Opacity - set the item’s visibility

Snap

Snapping allows you to align items quickly on the Diagram; click the “magnet” button or press the N key to turn it on and off. See Snap, Targeting, Connection for more details.