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6.5.1 Canvas
6.5.1 Canvas
The work grid or canvas in RasterMAPPER is where you place fixtures. When you first launch RasterMAPPER, a blank canvas is displayed. Once you
begin placing fixtures, they appear in a unique color. Fixtures on an inactive port are slightly transparent.
Below are descriptions of the tools specific to the canvas.
Select Tool
The select tool highlights any fixture or group of fixtures on an active port.
Fixtures can be selected by:
● Starting in an empty section of the grid, click and drag across the canvas.
● Click on the first fixture, then press and hold Shift (Win or Mac) or Command (Mac) or Control (Win) and click on the next fixture. Only those two
fixtures will be selected.
Hand Tool
The hand tool moves the canvas.
Note: Scroll bars can also be used to move the canvas.
Zoom
Adjust the zoom slider to increase or decrease the viewable canvas in preset values from 8-800%.
Zoom can also be adjusted by:
●
Zoom In/Zoom Out from the view menu
●
Command +/
- (Mac)
●
Control +/
- (Win)
Add fixture tool
To place the default C11 fixture, click the the add tool button so that it is highlighted. A yellow add cursor will be displayed when mousing over the map
area.
Fixture select Menu
To select another type of fixture click and hold the triangle next to the fixture name to display the 'Fixture Select Menu'. Mouse over the desired fixture and
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