User Manual

Laserworld Showeditor 2015
Version 2015/1.0 2015 Page 29
The features “Rotate”, “Change Color”, “Delete” and
“Optimize” can be used similar. They immediately apply for the points marked.
The “Magnifying Glass” is used to magnify regions of the drawing window.
Magnification can be done either by drag-zoom or use of the scroll wheel at the
mouse. Left mouse click on the tool returns magnification to 100%. Right mouse clicks
preserves the actual magnification settings.
All features are explained more in detail in the main manual.
Marked points can also be copied, cut and pasted – this works like in a normal text
editor – shortcuts like “Strg-C” (copy), “Strg-X” (cut) and “Strg-V” (paste) do NOT
work here, because they are used for the figure-to-key assignments.
In the case that a figure should consist of several single pictures (series of frames),
which later can be displayed as an animated cartoon, a new empty frame (picture)
via a click on “New Frame” must be created. Thus a new frame is generated after
the existing ones. “Add Frame” will add an empty frame before the active frame.
The “Morph” is explained in the main manual.
A newly created figure can directly be visualized to the hardware (displayed by the
laser projector) by a click on “Laser On”, or visualized in the simulation window.
Show Folder / Save Figures 3.3.
To use already existing figures/patterns/frames,
they need to be saved to a physical folder on the
hard disc. Even if new frames should be created, it
makes sense to create a new show folder in the
Windows Explorer first.
This folder holds all figures/patterns/frames and
media files that belong to the very show. It is
recommended to organize all folders in a suitable
structure.
The folder tree shown bottom right in the figure
editor window allows for selecting the right show
folder. Whole shows can also be loaded through
the menu File -> Open Lasershow
Any newly created figure is saved to the active folder when hitting “Save” or “Save
As”. If the figure has not yet been saved, a dialog (Fig.16) for entering the name
opens up.
Fig. 13: Figure Editor, folder
window: Structure of folders
(example)