Artist Help:Profile Wizard

The template wizard will step you through creating a template for a fixture. This is only required if your fixture does not appear in the template file supplied by ShowCAD.

This process should not be undertaken by novices since there are many considerations in making a fully functioning template.

Wizard Page 1

This wizard takes you through the steps for creating a Fixture Template. You should be prepared with the details of your Fixture as supplied by the manufacturers.

Define Template

Select the Template Group where you wish to create the new template.

Enter the name you wish to give your template

Enter the number of channels that the fixture uses. This must include any unused channels within the range defined for the fixture. Unused channels will be assigned a dummy parameter.

Select the image you wish to represent you fixture.

Optionally select the DMX line that the fixture is connected to to allow dynamic adjustment.

Optionally enter the address of the fixture to allow dynamic adjustments.

Dynamic Adjustment

If you have the fixture you are designing the template for connect and you have set the address details on Page 1 you adjust the preset, shortcut and range data dynamically. That is, just se the levels and monitor their effect of the fixture as you go.

Wizard Page 2

Add Parameter

This page is used to add the parameters that the fixture contains.

• From the combo box, select the parameter that most suits the one you are going to define. See Parameter Controls for definitions of each of the selectable parameter types.
• Click 'Add 8 bit' or 'Add 16 bit'. The parameter will appear in the list box.
• Repeat these step to add all the parameters featured in the fixture.

If you wish to remove a parameter that you have added, highlight it in the list box, and then click Remove.

Wizard Page 3

Set Channel Offsets

This page allows you to set the order of the parameters in you fixture. This is the address of the channels within the fixture. The left column of the list box shows the current offset address of the parameter axis.

To change the position of an axis, click on it to highlight it the use either the 'Up' or 'Down' button to move the axis within the fixture.

Wizard Page 4

Set Parameter Properties

Each parameter you have defined has been created with default settings. You will need to select each parameter in turn and set specific properties for each. This is an important step since Artist depends on this information to make programming and operating faster and more powerful.

To set the properties of a parameter click on the parameter to highlight it and click the 'Properties' button.

It is possible to set these properties after you have created the template by right-clicking on each parameter in the Template tree view.

Dynamic Adjustment

If you have the fixture you are designing the template for connect and you have set the address details on Page 1 you adjust the preset, shortcut and range data dynamically. That is, just se the levels and monitor their effect of the fixture as you go.

Wizard Page 5

Define Fixture Functions

If a fixture has them it is important that you should define the following functions,

Built-in Profile Functions

Reset	the function that resets the fixture.
Lamp ON	the function that strikes the fixtures discharge lamp.
Lamp OFF	the function that turns of the fixtures discharge lamp.

For each function that exists in the fixture,

• Select the function in the combo box
• Click the check box of each parameter that needs to be set for the function.
• Click on the name of a checked parameter to display its control.
• Set the level of the control that executes the function.
• Set the time that the parameter should be at that level for before returning to the normal state.