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Multicell fixture patch other direction

Hello, everybody,
is there a way to patch the cells in a different order in Mulitcell fixtures? I'll show my problem using the example of four 12-pixel LED bars. If I position the bars in a U-shape as shown in the attached picture on the left, the horizontal bars have the pixel 1 on the right and therefore in Eos cell 1 the pixel is on the right. But I want to have the first cell on the outside, i.e. cell 1 on pixel 12, cell 2 on pixel 11, cell 3 on pixel 10, ... Cell 11 at pixel 2, cell 12 at pixel 1.
A possibility of changing the order would make programming a lot easier for me. Especially regarding offsets. Manual patching of the pixels is possible with a single bar on the left, but if I use 16 bars instead of four, it's a lot of work... Turning the bar is out of the question because of the cable management.
Thanks a lot and I wish you the best possible start to the new year!

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    Some fixtures, like Chroma Q's ColourForce IIs, have a function on the fixture to swap L-R. I'd check that.

    In the console, not so much. . . . . but maybe there should be. Makes as much sense as being able to reverse Pan+Tilt.

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    I have done this before with multi-cell fixture profiles by using offset reverse in patch. As of 2.9 I was actually having some issues getting the reverse softkey but I made a macro for offset reverse and I was able to reverse cells at the patch level. (Leave the base fixture patched as normal.)

    Edit: alternatively you can make reverse copy of the fixture and reverse the dmx at the cell level buy flipping the order of the patched cells. This will probably save you the most work in the long run.

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    You just need to patch the fixture with the cells in the reverse order - the manual has an example under Patching Multi-cell fixtures:

    10.12 Thru 1 At 5 Enter will patch the 12 cells of channel 10 in reverse order (12 to 1, starting at address 5).

    I would recommend not editing a copy of the fixture and changing the DMX map - that would result in another fixture type to deal with and any by-type color palettes you have for the original fixture won't work with the new fixture.

    -Todd

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