Projector Placement on AV Drawings: Throw, Offset and Blending
Projector placement is one of the few things on an AV drawing that is genuinely arithmetic. Everything else involves judgement: where a loudspeaker sounds right, how…
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Projector placement is one of the few things on an AV drawing that is genuinely arithmetic. Everything else involves judgement: where a loudspeaker sounds right, how…
Read articleStadium and arena AV drawings break the habits that work everywhere else. Most AV documentation describes rooms: this room has these devices, drawn at this scale,…
Read articleAV grounding and bonding is where documentation quietly turns into a safety matter. Get it wrong on a cable schedule and somebody loses a morning. Get…
Read articleAV rack power and heat load is the number everybody needs and nobody produces. The electrical engineer wants to know how many circuits to run. The…
Read articlePoint cloud AV drawings begin with a file nobody can build from. A laser scan of an existing building is an extraordinarily accurate record of every…
Read articleDigital signage drawings are not hard in the way a control room or a courtroom is hard. One screen on a wall is a simple sheet.…
Read articleCourtroom AV drawings have a constraint most AV documentation does not: almost everything in the room is joinery, it gets built once, and the AV has…
Read articleHouse of worship AV is some of the most demanding documentation an integrator will produce, and it rarely gets treated that way. A sanctuary asks for…
Read articleAn AV site survey is the half day that decides whether your drawings describe the building or describe the drawings. Architectural files tell you what was…
Read articleEvery AV drawing sits on top of somebody else’s drawing. Get the architectural backgrounds right and the AV set almost draws itself; get them wrong and…
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