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MVR

MVR — My Virtual Rig — carries a whole scene between applications: which fixtures are in the project, where they are, how they are patched, and the other objects around them. Where GDTF describes one device, MVR describes the rig. These are the pages about getting a scene into FlexViz and back out again.

Features

Export and documentation — get the scene back out again FlexViz is built on the formats the industry already agreed on, so it can hand work back to the tool that owns the drawing. Patch data and fixture lists come ou

Articles

From a lighting plan to a browser preview: what has to survive the trip? 2 Sep 2026 An MVR import is not successful because a file opened. Fixture identity, patch, transforms, layers, geometry and intent all have to survive before a lighting pl
GDTF vs MVR — fixture definition vs scene exchange 18 Aug 2026 GDTF describes the fixture. MVR carries the rig. That sentence is deliberately simplified. It is also a much better starting point than treating both formats a

Documentation

02 Get fixtures into the scene
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Glossary Short definitions of the terms that turn up throughout FlexViz, each pointing at the page that explains it properly. If a word in the manual is doing more work
Import an MVR MVR — My Virtual Rig — is the file format lighting design software uses to hand off a whole show: layers, fixtures, positions and 3D geometry. FlexViz can open

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