Recent content by johnmcsoft

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You might try locking the circuit and dimmer columns in the LW file you send to the designer. They can always unlock them, if nothing else they'll have to make a real effort to bypass them.As far as "only count color with channel numbers" goes, set a Limit to only include lights with channel...

It strikes me that adding multiple channels to the same dimmer would create utter chaos - how on earth do you know which channel is the one turning the light on and off? Suppose one channel turns the dimmer off and another (patched to the same dimmer) turns it on? Road shows have been dealing...

I just lit Spamalog at Muhlenberg. We used a soft fabric cow, stuffed and pretty big. A crew person just threw it over the castle wall. The important part is that it has to hit Patsy, which in reality Patsy has to run towards it when he sees it coming. I would think having an actual catapult...

I hadn't thought about rep plots, and this is the first time anyone's asked! I'll add it to the "wish list", thanks!

It isn't currently possible in Lightwright, simply because usually the designer chooses the channels and then the electrician assigns dimmers to the lights in each channel. It's pretty rare to assign dimmers and then channels unless the designer is also serving as the electrician.

Check the resizing mode of the (2D) selection tool. It it's set to not resize, it won't let you move the position name's insertion point.

It's now on the wish list for LW6, but that's still years away...:(

Lightwright doesn't have any way of knowing which multis go to which dimmer racks. In fact, there isn't any way of telling it which circuit names are actually multis and not some other label. I've never forced a particular format on circuit names (and I suspect people would have my hide if I...