The beautiful Royal Liver Building in Liverpool is a Grade I listed building and part of Liverpool's UNESCO-designated World Heritage Maritime Mercantile City. Alongside neighbouring Cunard Building and Port of Liverpool Building, it is known as one of Liverpool's "Three Graces" overlooking the River Mersey waterfront. Standing over 320ft tall over 13 floors, the Royal Liver building was
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Understanding the Patch Navigator
The Patch Navigator is a useful and powerful tool during commissioning if you need to find or identify a fixture. Let’s imagine an occurrence where you, as the technician, are looking to find and select different instances of a fixture that you have patched. In the view above, you can see that there are 4 fixtures patched with multiple instances. If you select your fixture
A modern New York lighthouse
Pier 17 is part of the Seaport District; one of New York City’s oldest neighbourhoods seated along the East River in lower Manhattan. Built in the 19th Century as a bustling hub of industry for sailing ships to dock in, it rapidly fell into decline following the popularisation of steam ships, which could not dock due to the riverbed conditions. Since the 1960s several attempts have been made to
Utilising layout keyboard shortcuts
When working with fixtures in the layout, there are many keyboard modifiers that have been added to make your life easier. Here’s just a few of our favourites. For the full list, take a look in Help. For starters, a useful tool to re-centre the whole layout and zoom-to-fit the entire layout is activated by pressing CTRL/CMD + F. This is useful as a quick way to reset your view. This can then be
Roll the dice on the Gradient Tools Randomiser!
This tips and tricks guide will cover the gradient tools, including the randomiser, and the gradient stop tools. First things first; enabling them! Next to the gradient bar, you will see a button with three dots “…” This is used throughout Designer to indicate that there are more features tied to this that have been hidden for simplicity. Clicking this will enable the extra features. This can
The Cathedral of Our Lady is a heavenly beacon
Situated in the heart of Belgium as one of the prime European examples of Gothic architecture, the Cathedral of Our Lady had its lighting refurbished with new, sustainable LED lighting. The Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp took 169 years to construct (from 1352-1521), finally dominating the city's skyline with a height of 123 metres. It is the highest Gothic building in the Low Countries. As well