Fanning Groups

That is where you would use the "Grouping" and "Buddying" functions on the console.

Pg. 163 and 164 of the manual describes the functions of "Grouping" and "Buddying" and, from the sounds of it, is what you were looking for.

This is where buddying comes into play.

Check out Section 15.4.6 of the manual, aptly titled 'Fanning with Groups'.

Cheers,

Phil

[Update: Bah! Jon. You beat me to it. PG]

Thanks for your responses.

I guess I wasn't specific enough. When I wrote about groups I wasn't talking about odd and even or similar groupings, I was referring to specific groups saved in the groups palettes. I think STEPHLIGHT’s post on Nov. 24, 2006 does a better job of describing my request than I did.

A simplified example of what we were trying to do is grab Mac 2K 1 – 10 and I-Tiles Group 1 (comprised of I-Tiles 805 + 806 + 810 + 811) and Group 4 (similar to previous group) and Mac 2K 11-20 and fan the hue. What we get is a fan across all fixtures in the order selected. What we would have liked was for the fan to work across all fixtures but for each group to act like it was one fixture (or block) instead of four individual fixtures.

I hope this example makes it a little clearer. I’ll have to play with buddying to see if this could have given us the results we wanted but I don’t think so given the actual complexity of our groupings.

-Rob

Hrrrm.

I see where you're going with this.

I think most people would handle that manually, though it's an interesting concept.

Maybe something like a SoftKey in the grouping bar that said 'Fan Groups', 'Use Groups', or 'Buddy Groups'. Or maybe a selection in the 'Buddying' adjustment that said 'Group' instead of a number. (I would think this would be below/left of '0'.

PG

Intersting concept, I agree,

kind of buddy'ing all fixtures together which belong to Palette group X,and then fanning on these ones along with other groups behaving also as a buddied "Fixture"

very interesting.
+1
opposite one is also interresting, like grouping but with group from groupe directory.

Steph

Like in earlier discussion my request is a possibility to fan groups which have different amount of fixtures...like a simple fanning of pan if you have four trusses. First has 4 fixtures, second has 8, third has 3, fourth has 6.
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