The Coiled XLR Cable icon documents signal flow, not just scenery. It documents the connector or run the crew has to supply, which is the part of a plot the audio department reads first.
Place it, rotate it, and give it a label that matches the language your crew already uses. The export keeps all of it.
Stage position is the thing that gets argued about at load in, so it is worth drawing accurately. Cable icons usually sit beside the gear they serve rather than on a fixed part of the deck, close enough that the pairing is obvious in print. If the room forces a compromise, move the icon and export again. A fresh PDF is cheap; an argument at load in is not.
One thing worth writing down. Adapters are the items most often missed in a truck pack. Drawing them is what makes them countable.
Coiled XLR Cable is not an audio source, so it adds no rows to the input list. It is there to make the drawing accurate: it documents the connector or run the crew has to supply, and the channel count stays clean because nothing silent is padding it out.
The input list behind the plot exports as a Behringer X32 or Midas M32 scene file, a Behringer Wing scene, or CSV channel names for Allen and Heath dLive, Avantis, and SQ, DiGiCo, and Yamaha CL and QL desks. See the console guides.
More Cables
21 icons share the Cables section of the palette. These are the ones most often placed alongside Coiled XLR Cable.
Documents the connector or run the crew has to supply is only part of the picture. These icons come from Stageboxes, AC & DI and Video, the sections that most often appear on the same drawing.
