Library & Kits
A reusable catalog of parts and packaged systems, so you stop rebuilding lists from scratch.
The Library
The Library is your organization's catalog — every part, device, and packaged system you might specify on a project, kept in one place instead of re-typed per gig. Projects reference library items rather than duplicating them.
Adding an item
- 1Open Library and choose New Item.
- 2Pick a kind (computer, display, cable, power, controller, and more — each kind carries relevant fields, like power draw for anything that consumes power).
- 3Paste a product URL into the Product URL field and click away from it.
Pasting a URL auto-fills the vendor name and, when the page exposes a product image (Open Graph/Twitter tags, Amazon's own image data, or Product structured data), a thumbnail too. It never overwrites a name, vendor, or thumbnail you've already set on purpose.
How categories work
A category can be a path: "Cables > MIDI > 1 ft" reads as levels, and everything that groups or filters by category understands them. Boards group by the top level ("Cables"), and the Library, Community and item pickers let you drill down level by level — pick "Cables", then "MIDI", and you're looking at just those items, with any pack sizes still linked underneath their base item.
A rich built-in tree ships with the app — audio, video, cables by family, lighting, power, computers, sensors, show control, software, media, services and more — so most items classify with a couple of clicks. In the category field, type to filter it or use the arrow on a row to step into its sub-levels.
Custom category paths ("Ocean Cable > 5 Pin") are a Studio feature: on Studio, anything you type works, and the + button saves it for your whole workspace. On other plans you pick from the built-in tree.
Kits (assemblies)
A Kit is a library item that's actually a small system: a recipe of other library items, with quantities. Adding a kit to a project expands it into its real components on your buying sheet — you don't lose the ability to swap or price individual parts.
A kit can also carry its own wiring diagram — the same Routing editor a project uses, scoped to that kit — with defined input/output ports so it can be wired into a bigger system elsewhere. Open a kit's editor from its Library entry to build that diagram, or from a Routing graph by opening the kit node in place.
Kits can nest. A kit's recipe can include other kits, so a stage package can be built out of packages you already built.
The Builders wizard
For common system shapes, the Builders wizard fills in a kit's slots for you instead of starting from a blank recipe:
- Computer Builder — a media server or show-control PC (computer, storage, networking, mounting).
- Touchscreen Builder — a kiosk or interactive station (display, touch controller, player PC, mount).
- Monitor Builder — a standalone display (display, mount, video cable).
- Projector Builder — a full projection setup (projector, lens, screen, mount/rigging, video cable).
- LED Panel Builder — an addressable LED run (controller, panel, power supply, data cable).
Each slot suggests a library item kind, but you can put any item in any slot. Finish the wizard and it saves the result as a new kit.
Sharing a kit
Publish a kit to Community to share its full recipe — and its wiring diagram, if it has one — with everyone. See the Community guide for what happens when someone forks it.