Show dictionary · Rigging & Staging
Rigging Point
Also: point · house point
A rigging point is a defined location where load connects to a structure: either a house point (engineered attachment the venue publishes with a rated capacity) or a point built by riggers with baskets and bridles off the building steel. The rigging plot is a map of points and their loads.
In practice
Everything overhead resolves to points: the PA hang, each truss pickup, the video wall header. The advance trades the show’s point plot against the venue’s steel and capacities, and the answer determines what can fly and what gets ground-supported.
Point loads are the currency of the conversation (the hang-point calculator distributes truss loads into them), and capacity questions belong to the venue’s documentation and a qualified rigger. "Is there a point there, and what will it take?" is the whole negotiation in one sentence.
How you’ll hear it
"The plot wants 22 points; the house has 16 rated positions, so six get bridled off the beams."
Related resources
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