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Assembly grouping is similar to normal grouping except that fixtures in the group are still accessible individually.

 

A good example of an assembly would be a bar of 4 PARs

 

 

Example

Place 4 PAR 64 in a row

and one pipe (made with cylinder primitive)

 

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Select all 4 Pars and the pipe

make sure the pipe is picked (red) this will be the main part of the assembly

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Click the Assemble icon (or CTRL+G)

Assembly

 

And the result should look like this.

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Right-click on the pipe and choose properties

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In the Properties select Assembly Options

 

-Locked

 When locked is enabled, no settings changes will be allowed for that assembly

 

-Allow Move

 The child objects of the assembly will (not) move away from the main part.

 

-Allow Rotate

 The child objects of the assembly will (not) rotate on the main part.

 

-Allow Scale

 The child objects of the assembly will (not) scale one the main part.

 

-Allow Focus

 The child fixture objects of the assembly will (not) focus when using the focus tools (example, a blinder fixture, each source is fix in the casing)

 

-Allow Patch

 The child fixture objects of the assembly will (not) be available for individual patch (example, a Bar of 6 PAR in series, only one address to set on the main part of the assembly)

 

-Allow Replace

 The child fixture objects of the assembly will (not) be available for replacing

 

 

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Edit Mapping

Some fixtures assembly used multiple Base address

In such case you can define segments to use as base and connect each part of the fixture assembly to a base

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