LED Raster Designer v1.6.0

LED Raster Designer v1.6.0

The pull sheet and the binder now say exactly which cable to pull, every distro has a Power
in, and the panel you pick is saved on the screen and counted.

You also get a start page, mixed redundancy, mirror screens, a Fiber page and Z flow
patterns, and Organized now cuts a long row instead of stopping with an error.

US circuits now fill to 80% of the breaker, and other changes affect counts on the pull
sheet, so check any show you've already ordered cable from. They're all listed under Opening
an older show.

The pull sheet says which cable to pull

Power cables now read TRUE1 or powerCON and data cables read Cat6 or etherCON, on the pull
sheet and in the binder, and the ≡ on a processor's header opens one cable list of every box
on it. An Edison or L6-20 breakout now asks which connector your panels take, and each
circuit gets one cable from its plug to that panel input, with the 2fers at the panels.

Circuits now fill to 80% of the breaker

A circuit on US power now fills to 80% of its breaker unless the distro's breakers are 100%
rated. You still type the breaker size in the Amperage box, and the amps you can use show
beside it: 20 A breaker · 16 A usable on US power, or 20 A breaker · 20 A usable where the
breakers are 100% rated and on EU and UK power.

A power in for every distro

Every distro now has a Power in: a length, and whether it's powered from the service or thru
another distro. A 400 A cam input lists a 400 A cam set, and the power in is on the pull
sheet even before you type a length. The binder says what each distro is powered from, and
the load of a distro powered thru another counts on the service.

A start page, then a panel

The app now opens on a start page, where you can start a new project, open a file or pick a
recent one. A new project opens the panel library first, and the panel you pick makes your
first screen. Add Screen with nothing picked uses the last screen's panel, and Preferences
no longer has Panel size or Panel weight.

Your panels on the pull sheet

A panel you pick from the library is now saved on the screen, and the pull sheet counts it:
a row for each type on each screen, added up under TOTALS. A screen with no panel name, like
one from an older show, has no panel row, because the app never guesses one from its size.

A stock list for each kind of cable

Preferences > Cable stock can now hold a list for each kind of cable, and there's one Fiber
list for every fiber run. Older shows and presets read the new lists from the ones those
cables used before.

Back up each card its own way

On a chassis like an H series, the redundancy bar now has a Mixed choice. Card 1 can be
backed up 1:1 by card 2 while card 3 pairs its own ports, and the tray, the binder and the
pull sheet follow what you set.

Mirror screens and backup boxes

A breakout box on a copy OPT can now feed a mirror screen. Drag it onto a second screen that
matches the first, and the second becomes its copy. If they match in size and shape but
differ in a setting like frame rate, the drop says Not allowed, lists what's different and
offers to match it.

A box on a copy OPT now works the way NovaStar documents it on each processor: a backup or a
mirror, and never extra ports. A card saved in the old Copy / Backup mode opens as Backup,
the way it ran.

Z flow patterns and long rows

Data and power both get eight Z flow patterns, where every row or column starts again from
the same side. Organized now cuts a row or column too long for one port or circuit into
whole cabinets, and Port numbers and Circuit numbers set the order of the new ones. Older
shows keep the numbers they had. Ports required now tells you the fewest ports a screen
needs.

Redraw several ports as one

You can now pick several ports in the Data view and redraw them as one. The new port keeps
the first number, the ports after it close the gap, and one undo takes it all back.

Fiber from the processor to the box

A show that uses fiber now gets a Fiber page in the binder, with every processor out to its
breakout boxes on one sheet. A link on a TAC or MTP can have an extension at the box end,
and the pull sheet lists it. The CVT10, CVT10 Pro and CVT4K now come as single mode and
multimode boxes, and each box and fiber cable says which. A show saved with a CVT10 or CVT10
Pro opens with the single mode box.

Names for each group

Names (Screens, Group or Both) is now set per group on each tab, and the binder's Data and
Power sheets follow it. A show from an earlier version opens with every group named the way
it was.

New tiles and a new processor

The panel library now has every Graphite model from ROE's spec sheets, with corrected
weights and power. It also adds DVS's panels, including the Vizra X-Tour, and INFiLED's RS
series, and many more panels show average power. The NovaStar 4K-Prime is in the processor
list.

Opening an older show

Your older shows open and keep working, but some counts will change. Export the pull sheet
again and compare it with anything you've already ordered.

• Circuits on US power, and on a screen with no distro at 208V or below, now fill to 80% of
  the breaker, so you may need more circuits. A change that would repack a locked screen is
  refused, and the message names the screen.

• Automatic 2fers and 3fers that fit at 100% but not at 80% are kept as they were and
  flagged OVER, so share them again. A screen whose panels can't fit on a circuit at 80%
  warns you when you export the binder.

• A screen you set to 16 A in an older show to allow for the 80% rule now reads 16 A breaker
  · 12.8 A usable. Change it to the breaker size.

• powerCON screens listed TRUE1 jumpers, and Edison and L6-20 screens listed the wrong
  cables and splitters. They list the right ones now.

• Blank cabinets on a hand-drawn run no longer count jumpers, on power or data.

• When the cable stock makes a run from more than one piece, the pull sheet adds a barrel
  for each join on data and a powerCON Coupler on powerCON.

• A multi shared by screens with different breakouts lists a breakout for each connector.

• A placed data port with no home run typed is still listed, as a Cat6 or etherCON row with
  no length.

• The QD-S input fiber is listed where its boxes are, and with the screen's cables.

• Rows you hide and counts you change on the pull sheet now reach the binder.

• Pull sheet edits from an older version follow their renamed rows. Where one old row is now
  two, a count you changed is listed as stale for you to redo.

• A multi box carrying more circuits than it holds gets a note on the pull sheet and a
  Crowded line on the distro sheet.

• A breakout box backing up another on a copy OPT is now on the paperwork, with a home run
  for each backup socket, so check your cable counts.

• A CVT4K-S's second input always starts at output 9, and on a 10-port OPT it carries ports
  1-8 and 11-18, not 1-16. Older shows renumber that way, and their port counts stay the
  same.

• The pull sheet has a row for each named panel type on each screen and a Power in row for
  each distro.

• Hidden screens keep their multi numbers and outputs reserved, so no other screen takes
  them, but they're left out of distro and service loads everywhere, and out of the binder's
  Overview totals.

• A distro with nothing on it, or only hidden screens, is left off the binder, and a service
  with nothing printing on it gets no Service sheet.

• On ROE Graphite, GP2.6 (4 in 1) half tiles now draw 50% of a full tile instead of 64%.
  GP2.6, GP3.1 and GP3.9 Full Tile screens saved at 8.5 kg no longer match the library,
  which now lists 9.0 kg, so their half tiles weigh 65% of a full tile. Pick the panel from
  the library again to get the new figures.

• A grouped wall now runs its circuits across its screens, even on different processor
  canvases, so its circuits can change. One that's locked, or that has circuits plugged in,
  labeled, cabled or redrawn on a later screen, keeps them screen by screen.

• A group saved half locked in an older show now counts as locked. You can still hide and
  show its screens when that doesn't change their circuits, but any other edit waits until
  you pick Lock or Unlock for the group.

Fixes

• Unplugging a multi, a circuit or a distro takes off only the circuits it fed.

• Clear Circuit clears a whole custom 3fer and leaves every other circuit in place.

• A locked screen sharing a multi keeps its circuits when you change the other screen.

• A circuit's cable length stays with its cabinets when the circuits renumber.

• While you redraw a port or circuit, clicking an earlier cabinet cuts it back, so a redraw
  no longer dead-ends.

• Custom ports always run 1 to N with no gaps.

• Making a screen smaller takes the lost cabinets out of the ports and circuits you drew.

• Two distros with the same name read SR-1 and SR-2 everywhere.

• A service counts only the distros connected to it, and it checks their load, not their
  ratings.

• An L6-20 screen now plugs into a distro's L6-20 outputs.

• The tray and the distro checks now warn you when an output carries more circuits than it
  takes.

• A crowded Power sheet gives its multis short tags and a key.

• Amperage offers 16A beside 15A and 20A.

• A length typed in the other unit, like 30m in a feet show, converts wherever you type a
  home run, cable, power in, snake or fiber length.

• A looped XD pair with 9 primaries now reads 9/10 in the tray, not 18/20.

• A card you haven't named reads Card 1, Card 2 and so on by its slot.

• Removing a processor or a card releases its ports and says which ones are unplaced.

• Snakes are labeled by their ports, and two snakes are never merged into one row.

• A big show's binder is a fraction of the size, about 13 MB where one was about 250 MB.

• The binder's Overview draws your screens much bigger and lists every sheet.

• The binder marks every circuit over its limit and warns you when you export.

• Binder tables wrap long text instead of cutting it off, and empty cells are blank.

• On a Data Wiring sheet, each breakout box names its fiber cable on each input.

• The binder's pull page lists a 1:1 backup card.

• Labels on a group's seam print whole on its sheets.

• Your browser's AutoFill can no longer change a show.

• Recent Files opens each show as you last saved it.

• New, File > Open and Recent Files ask before unsaved changes are lost.

• A show with more than one canvas opens on the canvas it was saved on.

• Ctrl+J and Duplicate copy every selected screen, and a copy never takes a name that's in
  use.

• A screen you add goes to the first free spot on its canvas.

• Esc closes the app's menus and dialogs, and it always ends a redraw.

• Renaming a screen by double-click works in Firefox.

• The guides no longer fail from timing or your Preferences, and starting one right after
  another can't lose your project.

• On a Mac, opening the launcher no longer hides the app's menu-bar icon. Thanks to
  kcikcreative33 for this fix.

Install

macOS: download the .dmg and drag the app to Applications. The first time you open
it, go to System Settings > Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway.

Windows: download the .zip, extract it, then run LED Raster Designer.exe. If
Windows shows "Windows protected your PC", click More info, then Run anyway.

SHA-256 checksums for both files are attached as checksums.txt.