netmap.show · guide

The guide

Task-first pages, straight from the app's own Guide · each one is a sheet in the register

Every page starts from a job you actually have — patch a node, calibrate a printer, publish the book — and walks it in the app's own order. The same material ships inside netmap under Guide.

netmap start screen with recent-show cards, Load demo, and the What's New panel
G-1015 min

Start your first show

Load the demo, read how the tabs connect, export the book, then open a blank title block of your own.

Plan
3D rack render orbited to a three-quarter angle with faceplates on
G-1025 min

Rack elevations

Elevations from the device list, a 3D case you can orbit, power on the sheet, and identical racks printed once.

BuildFree
VLANs tab: the color legend with per-VLAN subnet and IP start schemes
G-1037 min

Plan the IP scheme & VLANs

One VLAN legend rules the book — colors, subnets and IP starts that drive the planner and the audits.

Plan + Patch
MVR / Patch tab with the 3D fixture plot on: the imported rig orbited in 3D, fixtures colored by universe
G-1046 min

Import an MVR plot

Pull the plot straight from Vectorworks — fixtures, universes by position, conflict checks, GDTF footprints.

ToolsAdd-on
Looms tab with the stock loom library and the loom editor showing member legs
G-1054 min

Build looms & stamp them in

A stock loom library: spec it once, stamp both ends, every leg lands in the cable schedule. Free for all tiers.

PatchFree
Labels tab printing by rack: every rack of a four-zone show ticked, each rack under its own header strip, rack labels in their zone colour
G-1066 min

Labels

By rack, by zone, a sheet per fiber spool, panel ports and 1:1 strips — and only what changed since the last print.

ShipFree
Publish tab with the live slug preview, PIN, expiry countdown and publishes list
G-1077 min

Publish to web

The whole book on the crew's phones, a page per zone, kept current as you save.

PublishStudio
Guest IPs tab: the Suggest free ranges control, and reserved guest IP pools grouped by VLAN and colour-coded, each row either open or assigned to a visiting LD
G-1086 min

Take guest sign-ups

Reserve IPs, universe chunks and dry lines for visiting LDs, print the handoff chart, and let them sign themselves up.

Patch + ShipStudio
Site plan of a four-zone street circuit: zone outlines, racks placed, fiber runs drawn and tagged with their trunk and length
G-1097 min

Site plan

Racks on the site, runs drawn the way they are pulled, measured lengths, and a fiber plan sheet per zone.

PatchFree
G-110
G-1105 min

Rack wiring

Every rack's wiring sheet, drawn from your patch — and a cable drawn on the sheet is a real cable row.

PatchFree
G-111
G-1116 min

Cloud backup & two machines

Every save lands in your account. Open the same show on the studio machine and the tour laptop, and let netmap tell you when one of them moved it.

ShipStudio
Racks tab: the zones table with crews, and racks built the same way grouped into builds
G-1126 min

Zones & zone packets

Zones give every rack, cable and page a crew territory. Zone packets hand each crew only their part of the book.

PlanFree
Trunk Lines tab: fiber lines between racks with cable, length and strand counts, and the fibers-to-bring list
G-1137 min

Fiber & strand maps

Trunk lines, strand maps in TIA colours, duplex ST panels and barrel home runs — and the network checks follow them.

PatchFree
Racks tab: the zones table with crews, and racks built the same way grouped into builds
G-1145 min

Rack builds & swapping racks

Identical racks print once. Swap in a stock case and every IP, spare and fiber stays where it was.

BuildFree
G-115
G-1154 min

Working together

Open a show in the browser, share it, and edit together — everyone sees who is where and what changed.

StudioBeta
Paperwork tab with the export preview, sheet checklist and Arch D 4-up option
G-1165 min

Paperwork, presets & title blocks

The whole book on one screen: presets with their own print order, a live preview, and a title block you design once.

ShipFree
G-117
G-1173 min

The network riser

The whole network on one drawing, demarc to rack, drawn from the zones and trunks you already entered.

PatchFree