Partition by address?

Can you explain why Partitions with Channels doesn't work for this ? I would think that having three partitions where every partition has a big range (like 1: 1001 thru 1999 ; 2: 2001 thru 2999 and so on) should work. Then you could tell the crew in studio A using partition 1 that anything they patch needs to be in the 1001 thru 1999 range ...?

I hope this doesn't come across as strange...I am just curious why this wouldn't work.

Can you explain why Partitions with Channels doesn't work for this ? I would think that having three partitions where every partition has a big range (like 1: 1001 thru 1999 ; 2: 2001 thru 2999 and so on) should work. Then you could tell the crew in studio A using partition 1 that anything they patch needs to be in the 1001 thru 1999 range ...?

I hope this doesn't come across as strange...I am just curious why this wouldn't work.

It would work exactly that simply, but the show was patched a long time ago. Channel ranges were decided by fixture type rather than location. So each set is not one block of channels. They are all intermingled. I could repatch everything, but that would be a few weeks of labor to redo all the numbering, labeling, documentation, etc.

As it stands now, I am making a group for each stage that I have to update each time we add or remove lights from the space. Partitioning by address/universe would be a one-and-done solution as each universe is only in one physical location.

Being a devil's advocate, since some fixtures use multiple addresses, would you expect to be able to partition the Pan parameter to one user and the Iris parameter to another?

Why dont you make your 3 groups such that each one includes the randomly patched ones and then  (as matzestrobel suggests) the 1001 thru 1999 and the 2001 thru 2999 etc. 

That way you wont need to mess around with the groups when you add more lights.