
Digital Twins for Theatre
What is a Digital Twin?
A digital twin is a digital copy of a real world place or object – in our case, that’s a 3D CAD model of a venue or set design of a show.
At Preevue, we specialise in building Digital Twins from either our own LiDAR laser scan surveys or architectural drawings.
The process of building a Digital Twin from a LiDAR laser scan involves manually remodelling the venue piece-by-piece, with the team of artists at Preevue finding the balance between making a highly-detailed and photorealistic file with ensuring it is optimised to run in all industry-standard CAD packages.
Why is a Digital Twin Useful?
Having a digital twin on-file allows the Creative and Production teams to complete a large amount of tasks with a virtual model that they’d traditionally complete in-person.
This includes site visits, programming lighting and video, and checking sightlines. All of these can be done years in advance of a production opening, saving time and money.
These CAD Digital Twins are at the core of everything we do; they are the foundation of our VR Visualizations, our view-from-seat solution Seat Preevue, our production visualization work and our Sightline Analysis tool.
Our Digital Twins are standard 3D CAD models that can be opened in an array of industry-standard software including AutoCAD, Vectorworks, 3DS Max, and Sketchup.
Our files are also compatible with lighting visualisation software packages including Capture, wysiwyg, and ETC’s Augment3d.





THE LONDON PALLADIUM

GLYNDEBOURNE OPERA HOUSE

THE PRINCE OF WALES THEATRE

BAYREUTH FESTSPIELHAUS

DOMINION THEATRE

DORFMAN THEATRE

GEORGIAN THEATRE ROYAL

THE GILLIAN LYNNE THEATRE

LIVERPOOL EMPIRE

LYCEUM THEATRE

LYRIC BELFAST

MANCHESTER OPERA HOUSE

LYTTELTON THEATRE

PHOENIX THEATRE

ROYAL SHAKESPEARE THEATRE

SWAN THEATRE

SUNDERLAND EMPIRE

WINTER GARDEN THEATRE