User manual AVOLITES VIZWIZ V 7.10

[. . . ] Visualiser and VizWiz Operator's Manual Version 7. 10 WIZAR Useful Avolites phone numbers:Avolites England Sales and Service* Service out of hours* Fax Email (+44) (0) 181 965 8522 (+44) (0) 831 17 88 88 (+44) (0) 181 965 0290 vis (at) avolitesdownload. com Distribution of Avolites products in USA:Avolites America Sales and Service* Fax (+1) 423 938 2057 (+1) 423 938 2059 *Before contacting Avolites for service enquiry please ensure that you have the product serial number and the Software version. The latest version of this manual (in Microsoft Word For Windows revision 97) can be downloaded from the Internet at www. avolites. com The small print : No Liability for Consequential Damages Avolites has a policy of continuous product and documentation improvement. As such the detail within this manual may not match the operation of the product or products it relates to. In no event shall Avolites be liable for any direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages or loss whatsoever (including, without limitation, damages for loss of profits, business interruption, or other pecuniary loss) arising out of the use or inability to use the stage Visualiser even if Avolites Ltd. has been advised of the possibility of such damages. [. . . ] (If you wish to move a group which is under DMX control, you should first turn off the DMX tick box for that group, move it, then turn back on the DMX, otherwise it will spring back as soon as DMX is turned on!) Snap This allows you to straighten up a set of fixtures. You can straighten up all the lights in the rubber box or all the risers in the rubber box. You can always snap the fixtures to a line. The software selects the best-fit straight line for the objects selected, but at intervals of 15 degrees. You can select to put the fixtures at equal distances along the line, or to preserve the current spacing. If the rubber box contains just one truss, you also have the option of snapping the fixtures (lights or risers) to the truss. This is always done evenly. · · 4. 4 Status Bar The status bar has five displays. The first three numbers indicate the cursor co-ordinates W, D, and H. The fourth number displays the time to refresh the window. (The lower the number the faster the screen updates will be) Visualiser7. 12Manual. doc 03/11/2006 08:59:00 Avolites stage Visualiser­ Operators Manual - page 21 The final number on this line indicates the number of updates per second. (The larger the number the faster the screen updates will be. The smallest number that can be displayed is 0 and this means that the screen update takes more than one second. ) The remainder of the status bar gives prompt information, such as when the cursor is Armed and therefore ready to place an object. Click on the status bar to remove the last message. 4. 5 Groups Groups may be created using the rubber box, or by clicking the group button and then clicking one of the four view panes. A device may then be added to or subtracted from the group by left-clicking it. 4. 6 Theatre Properties To access the theatre properties right click within the bounds of the theatre. This dialogue allow you to enter theatre dimension and various other settings for a theatre including colours of walls. These colours are only shown if rendering is enabled in run mode. 4. 7 Display Properties By right clicking outside a theatre the Display Properties box is shown which has 6 alterable integer values which change the way the theatre is viewed. By pressing the up or down button the view of the theatre will change. By altering the width view point position the viewpoint will rotate around the theatre horizontally. By altering the width viewpoint orientation the viewpoint will rotate around the theatre vertically. By altering the depth view point position the viewpoint will move nearer or further away to the theatre. If the depth view point position is altered below the depth of the theatre then the view will be totally distorted and will not be understandable. By altering the depth viewpoint orientation the viewpoint will rotate clockwise or anticlockwise By altering the height view point position the viewpoint will move up or down from its current position. [. . . ] Note: when the Strobe channel is implemented on a channel separate from the dimmer channel you should see section 10. 2. 3 for details on how to link the channels together. 10. 2. 3 Linking a Strobe or Shutter channel to the dimmer channel This note applies to fixtures which use a separate DMX channel for the Shutter and Strobe. When the r20 file is loaded a DMX channel will be defined as Shutter. Initially this channel is not linked to the dimmer channel and the following procedure must be followed to do this. 3> Open the Dimmer channel and right click the Value. [. . . ]