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Select Fixtures

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First, fixtures must be selected to operate and change the values of attributes (for example, dimmer, pan, tilt, or zoom).

To select fixtures, use one of the following ways:

Hint:
See the System Colors topic to learn more about the font colors used when selecting or deselecting fixtures in the fixture sheet.

Examples

Requirements:

 

To select fixtures 1 thru 5, press the following hardkeys on the console or use the command section menu  :

Fixture 1 Thru 5 Please

This command is visible in the command line input:

User name[Fixture]>Fixture 1 Thru 5

Fixtures 1 thru 5 are selected. The five selected fixtures are in a yellow font in the Fixture Sheet window.


To exclude fixtures from a selection, for example, types:

User name[Fixture]>Fixture 1 Thru 10 - 6 Thru 8

Fixtures 1 to 5 are selected, 6 to 8 are deselected, and 9 and 10 are selected.


To make the same selection of fixtures as shown in the example above using a different syntax, type:

User name[Fixture]>Fixture 1 Thru 5 + 9 Thru 10

 To select fixtures in two commands, type:

User name[Fixture]>Fixture 1 Thru 5
User name[Fixture]>Fixture 9 + 10

To select the fixtures 9 and 10 in the example above,  + or Thru can be used.

Important:
Some keys are used to navigate the sub-selection of fixtures, which is part of the MAtricks function. The keys have an on-screen version called the Selection Bar, which can also be used to select fixtures.
 

Recursive Selection of Fixtures

Some fixtures have multiple sub-fixtures. The following examples show how to select fixtures and their sub-fixtures in different orders and hierarchies using an additional dot (.).

Hint:
See the First Patch topic in the Quick Start Guide to learn more about sub-fixtures.

Requirement for this example:

  • 10 Ayrton Alienpix - RS Ex 16-bit patched. See Add Fixtures to the Show.
  • Fixtures spot numbered from 301 to 310.
  • A fixture sheet window is open.

To select fixture 301, type:

User name[Fixture]>Fixture 301

Only the main fixture is selected.

  • A dot (.) can be added to the selection syntax of the main fixture to quickly select all sub-fixtures.

To select fixture 301 and all its sub-fixtures, type:

User name[Fixture]>Fixture 301.
Fixture 301 and the sub-fixtures are selected.
 

 To select the main fixtures and all sub-fixtures of fixtures 301 thru 303, type:

User name[Fixture]>Fixture 301 Thru 303.
All AlienPix ( fixtures and sub-fixtures) are selected.
  • The dot selects the sub-fixtures downwards from the specified level. Therefore, it is also possible to select only the pixels of an AlienPix.

To select all pixels of an AlienPix, type:

User name[Fixture]>Fixture 301.1. Thru
All pixels of an AlienPix are selected.

To select pixels of an AlienPix in particular, type:

User name[Fixture]>Fixture 301.1. Thru 4 + 6
Particular selection of pixels.

General Fixture Selection

To select all fixtures and sub-fixtures, type:

User name[Fixture]>Fixture Thru .

To select all parents of all fixtures, type:

User name[Fixture]>Fixture Thru