LXPlan

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Claude Heintz Design

The Symbol tab selects the symbol that is drawn by the symbol tool. The rotation of the symbol is controlled by the rotation slider. This silder duplicates the function of the slider in the Drawing tab. The difference between the two is that the slider in the Symbols tab stops every 45 degrees.

If a symbol is selected, it can be changed. The type and rotation of selected symbols are are shown. If there is more than one object selected and their properties are not the same, a "(...)" will appear by the setting.

The symbol palette shows the currently available symbols. What a symbol represents is stored in a key. The name appears below the symbol palette. A key is read from a file and is stored with the plot.

The key popup, located below the symbol name, lets you switch key files and store the current configuration in a file. When you load a new key, entries in use will not be deleted. However, if the new key contains information about a key entry that is already in use, the new information will replace what is stored in the plot.

The Symbol tab also contains information about symbols that represent devices such as automated fixtures.

Automated fixtures and devices often use more than a single channel of intensity control. The table at the top of the split panel device section contains a list of addresses. These addresses are in the order of the channels of an individual device. The "+" column sets the offset of the base DMX address (dimmer) for each parameter. The "." column is the sub-channel number for the parameter.