Plan the network once. netmap turns it into the drawing set, the labels, the rack builds and a live page for the crew, and keeps every sheet in step.
Drop zones and racks on the venue, then run fiber between them. A bypass run sits beside its trunk, so a shared path still reads at a glance.
Give a device a rack and an RU and the elevations exist: front, rear, and a 3D case built from the real faceplate photos in your library.
The riser draws itself from the patch: control down to every zone, each switch and node in its rack, one large sheet or one per zone.
Rack faces, fiber ends, panel ports: every label comes off the same data, in the order you walk the racks, on the stock you already buy. Free on every tier.
Before a single device exists, the show has an addressing scheme. The title block says whose book this is; the VLAN legend says how the network thinks.
Every VLAN gets a number, a name, a color, a subnet scheme and an IP start. That row travels everywhere — grid cells, port maps, coding rings, labels, prints.
Change a VLAN's id or name and every device, switch port and panel connector using it follows — in the show and in your saved library.
Split a festival or a street circuit into zones — each with a number, a colour, a crew, an order number and its own universe block. Racks, cables, trunks and paperwork all know which zone they belong to.
The per-VLAN subnet schemes set here drive the IP planner later. Design the addressing once, at your desk, before the gear ships.
One row per piece of gear — typed in, pasted from a spreadsheet, or pulled from the library you have been building since the last tour.
A reusable gear library, saved panels, and touring containers that come back with their gear and switch-port assignments in one click.
Real-world gear added by netmap users — port layouts, RU, power, faceplates — human-reviewed before it ships. Included with Pro.
Give a device a rack and an RU and the elevations exist — front, rear, and a 3D flight case you can orbit. Power inlets and outlets draw on the rack sheet the way the rack is built.
Racks built the same way are grouped into one build, and its sheet prints once. Budget changes and a rental-house case goes in instead? Drop it on the rack: switches and nodes keep their names, IPs and links, spares keep their slots, and the fiber stays landed.
The deepest phase — and the one the site can't fake. Four screens, one rule: nothing is typed twice, and validation runs live the whole way down.
Paint VLANs onto the switch face. The whole architecture at a glance, in faceplate order — copy a plan, stamp it onto the next switch.
Every device, every NIC, live and editable. Consoles side by side, nodes with their universes, duplicates boxed in red on the spot.
The whole network drawn from the same patch: control down to every zone, each rack with its switches and uplinks, one large sheet or one per zone, each pointing to the next.
Every fiber between racks, with its strand map: TIA colours, TX and RX, duplex ST pairs, and spare pairs carried through barrels straight back to the demarc. The network checks follow a link through its patch panels.
Validation runs live the whole time — duplicate IPs, a port used twice, a VLAN missing from the legend. The mistake gets caught at your desk, not at the dimmer beach.
A festival field or a street circuit is not one room. Place the racks on the site — on a scaled grid or over the venue PDF — and draw each fiber run the way it is pulled.
The drawing works the way a CAD user expects: design layers, classes you can switch off, and print sheets with viewports cropped to each zone, continuation marks where a run leaves the sheet.
A run is bound to its trunk line, so its tag reads the cable, the length and the strands in use — and the riser draws the whole network, demarc to rack, from the same data.
A titled, numbered, revision-stamped set: portrait, 11×17, or ganged four-up onto Arch D. Rebuilt in seconds whenever the show changes.
The gate first: a green board. Errors block a clean export; warnings don't lie about themselves.
Then the export — a branded drawing set with title blocks, a drawing register and revisions. Portrait, landscape 17×11, or ganged four-up onto Arch D for the plotter. PDF and Excel, every time.
Tick a zone and every label comes out rack after rack — the rack label, then its gear top-down, each rack under its own header strip, never split over two sheets. Fiber prints a sheet per spool: the From end on top, the To end below, a flag for every strand. Only new or changed reprints just what moved since the last print.
One PDF per zone with only that zone's racks, cables, trunks, ports and IPs — hand each crew chief their own book. Design the title block once, for Letter, 11×17, A4 or ARCH D.
Die-cut stock from Avery and the OnlineLabels catalog, calibrated per printer. Your printer lies; netmap measures it.
Labels are free on every tier. For labels from any show paperwork, open netmap labels in the browser.
The label designer in your browser. Open a netmap show or drop in any paperwork, and it works out which labels you can make, fills them in and lays them out on the right sheets.
One click on the Labels tab sends the show over: racks in their zone colors, devices with a bar per VLAN, cable wraps for both ends, looms and the VLAN legend. Your company logo and colors stay in step in both places.
Breakers and Soca ports from a 48-way, fixture labels from a LightWright export, case labels you type yourself. Spreadsheets, text PDFs, scans and Google Sheets or Dropbox links all read in.
Exact-size PDFs on Avery and OnlineLabels stock, a test page on plain paper and per-printer calibration. Simple controls by default, a full canvas editor when you want one, and the same engine prints inside netmap.
Studio publishes the paperwork to netmap.show/publish/you/show — the crew opens the whole book on their phones. Searchable IP schedule, cable schedule, port maps, and the 3D rack orbit. No app install.
Not a PDF to squint at — a page the crew runs the show from. They tap pull-sheet rows as the cable goes in, live progress per rack, and flag a problem on any row for everyone to see. Guest LDs claim their own open IPs, universe chunks and dry lines, or send a ClearCom or ShowKontrol request without claiming anything at all — and every sign-up is one click from landing in your schedule.
Zone links give every zone its own page — only its racks, cables and IPs — kept current as you edit, with QR cards to tape inside each rack.
Opt-in per publish. Optional PIN. Links live 14 days and extend from the app. View counts, every check-off, flag and sign-up come back to you.
The crew page · IP schedule and the node grid, on a phone at load-in
Type a channel — the fixture, position, patch and node fill in from your MVR. Shared with the crew, live.
Turn Rig Notes on when you publish and the page becomes a shared punch list for the whole crew. A tech types a channel; netmap reads your imported MVR and fills in the fixture, its position, the universe and address, and the node and port driving it. No lookups, no spreadsheet.
Type Ch 202 and the note reads Maverick Storm 2 · Upstage Truss · U5/49 · FOH Node 1 port 5. Positions come from the MVR, the node and port from your own network design. It even flags a channel that no node emits.
One link. Everyone logs and clears the same list through build, focus and overnight programming — mark a note on it, resolve it, reopen it, and the page updates for everyone. Every note lands back in the app, with a print-ready punch list for the morning.
Open a cloud-backed show in the browser from your account page (the full editor, not a lite version) and invite the people building it with you.
Starts as a 7-day full-feature trial, then keeps working as a free demo. Kick the tires for as long as you like.
The working designer's tier. Full drawing sets, clean exports, no caps that matter on a one-desk show.
Publish your show paperwork to the web — the crew opens the whole book on their phones, no app install. Everything in Pro, every add-on, and a backup seat on top.
For rental houses, production companies and institutions running netmap across a whole team — your shop's standards on every seat.
Private beta runs free with full features. Pricing shown is the current plan and can change at any time, with or without notice — changes apply going forward, never to time you've already paid for. Annual is ~2 months free. Add-on prices are per user per month. Prices in USD.
netmap is drafting real show packages today. I'm bringing on a small group of network and systems folks for early access — full features, no watermark, and a direct line to me for what it should do next. At launch it opens with a 7-day trial.
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