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Tips & Tricks

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

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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

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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

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Tips for migrating to Designer 2

Deciding to Migrate Designer 2 is a completely new platform from our previous version of Designer and therefore using it requires both hardware and Designer project files to go through a migration process to convert them to the new platform. We encourage all new projects to use Designer 2 from the start but what about completed projects and projects currently underway in 1.11.5? Should you

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