Advancing a show means answering "what is arriving and where does it go". The DSM icon answers both: it reserves upstage space and documents the signal feed the venue has to supply and it holds its position to scale on the printed plot.
Add it, label it, and save the plot. The next time this band books, the layout is already done.
Put it where it will really stand, not where it is convenient to draw. Walls and screens sit upstage of the band and raised where possible, so the top of the picture clears the drum riser and the heads in front of it. Stageplot Pro keeps every icon to scale, so the spacing you draw is the spacing the crew builds.
The detail that saves a phone call. Confirm the source and the connector for every feed. Video is where most show day signal problems begin.
DSM is not an audio source, so it adds no rows to the input list. It is there to make the drawing accurate: it reserves upstage space and documents the signal feed the venue 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 Video
13 icons share the Video section of the palette. These are the ones most often placed alongside DSM.
Reserves upstage space and documents the signal feed the venue has to supply is only part of the picture. These icons come from Misc Tech, Cables and Cases, Stairs, Risers, Trusses, the sections that most often appear on the same drawing.
