On Monday, March 30, 2015, Richard John Archer via Stagecraft <<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>What are people now using to layout event spaces. Something self leveling, able to put a dot on the floor and a dot above on the ceiling (to hang motors etc) shooting other lines out at right angles from the vertical would be good too.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> Pacific Laser Systems.</div><div><br></div><div>I use a five-way PLS-5 as my personal laser plumb on the Dirty Tour, to lay out the show's base & center lines, referenced off the venue CL and a batten. It usually also gets put to work spotting hoist points. On the Pony Show, we used a pair of PLS-3 lasers to replace our worn-out CST-Berger LaserMark 58-MP3 lasers, which do away with two of the three horizontal beams the -5 has.</div><div><br></div><div>I've been a satisfied PLS user for going on twenty years. The only hesitation I have in recommending them is that PLS doesn't repair their least-costly lines any more; if the diode or prism or whatever goes tango-uniform during the "warranty" period, instead of fixing the PLS, they just replace it with another one. Somehow that just rubs me wrong; as if the line is too cheap to bother fixing. YMMV, of course.</div><div><br></div><div>I do like the CST-Berger 58-MP3. But I like my PLS-5 a whole lot more.</div><div><br></div><br><br>-- <br>Dave Vick<br>Automation Carpenter / Rigger,<br>"Dirty Dancing" Tour 2014-15<br>517-749-3859<br>