This is the tour of RigPlan: what to enter, what comes out, and where the workflow features live. The premise is that once the wall is planned, everything the truck needs follows from it.
The planner goes in steps, with the wall and its numbers beside them: show or install, panel, size, rigging, then power and data. A permanent install has no rigging step. Pick a panel from 654 systems with datasheet figures, or add your own. In the size step, type the width you want in metres and pick a format (16:9, 16:10, 4:3 or 21:9), and the fit button picks the nearest whole cabinets; the line under it gives the size and format the cabinets actually make, which for a tall or odd cabinet can miss the format. Columns and rows stay there to type by hand. Rigging sets flown, ground-stacked or wall-mounted and the bumpers you own. Power and data sets the region (circuit ratings), the processor, the redundancy and the feeder run. Refresh rate, bit depth, spares and the port load limit sit under More settings, and the job name, dates and saving under Job.
A saved job or a share link opens on the result. Each step header shows what the step holds, and a click opens it again.
On paid plans you can add more walls to the same job, such as main plus IMAG plus riser fill, and shared spares and truck totals are derived across all of them. Custom panels can also be pre-filled by uploading a datasheet PDF, which the parser reads and you confirm.
The totals line under the wall diagram gives the headline numbers: panels plus spares, weight including bumpers, maximum and typical power with circuit count, data runs and processor fit, and estimated truck deck. Below it, the pack list is grouped by category, with every line derived and every line checkable. Tick things onto the truck, add comments, and the marks persist.
Each wall gets two schematics: data wiring (serpentine runs, numbered in patching order from stage left as seen from the rear) and power runs (vertical snakes with rightward hops, balanced loads per circuit, phase suggestions and a distro patch line). Both print, whichever tab is on screen.
If the venue hands you limits, such as circuits available, kilograms per point, number of points or truck metres, enter them and the plan warns the moment a derived total exceeds one. That turns the plan from what the wall needs into what fits this room.
When the wall needs more than your stock covers, whether panels, bars or anything else, the shortfall becomes explicit red sub-hire lines with a copy-ready cross-hire request, instead of a silent assumption that the gear will appear.
The pack list has two phases. Pack out is the load-out from the warehouse; count in is the return. Switch to count-in after the show and tick gear as it comes back. The return report names what went out and never returned, and what came back that was never packed, so shrinkage is found the night the truck returns rather than at the next load-out.
Print gives the job document: a header with job name, dates and every wall’s size in panels, metres and pixels; the pack list; and both wiring schematics. Free prints carry a small watermark; paid plans print with your logo and a picker for which sections to include. Share links encode the whole wall spec in the URL, so anyone can open your wall without an account.
Solo adds saved jobs with revision history, templates, quotes and synced inventory. Shop adds five seats, house standards (your own ratios for every rule), live warehouse check-off, and booking, where dated jobs draw on your inventory so double-bookings surface as sub-hire lines before they surface at load-in.
RigPlan does this arithmetic for you. Enter the wall once and it derives panels and spares, rigging from your own stock, circuits, the data wiring plan and the full pack list, free with no sign-up.
Open the plannerThe planner, the quick calculators, the full pack list, wiring and power schematics, venue limits and printing are free with no sign-up. Paid plans (€19 and €49 a month) add multi-wall jobs, saved jobs, inventory, booking and team features.
Every panel in the database is transcribed from the manufacturer’s own datasheet, with the source linked on the panel’s page. Anything the manufacturer does not publish is marked as not published or as an assumption rather than guessed.
Yes. Add a custom panel with your own specs, or upload its datasheet PDF on a paid plan and confirm the parsed values. Custom panels stay private unless you explicitly offer them to the public database.
Yes. The share link encodes the entire wall specification in the URL, so anyone who opens it sees the same wall, fully derived, with no account needed.