Bring up output by dimmer

Sorry for the stupid new-user question, but I can't figure out how to bring up an output by dimmer on a RoadHog. I asked a couple of Hog experts and they said you do it by "DMX." I searched the whole manual for DMX and couldn't figure it out. They thought it was in the patch screen, but I can't find anything remotely like dimmer or DMX. I brought up the DMX output screen and tried "setting" an output, but that didn't work. In learning the Hog, I've discovered that it does most everything the traditional boards do, it just calls it something different. That makes it a little hard to search the manual to find what I want, but I'm adapting.

Anyway, what I want is the function that every console has had from day one: bring up a dimmer for focus or whatever. On Obsession, you just say "Dimmer xx at xxx enter" to bring up a dimmer. You can also park dimmers on. The syntax on Strand 520 is similar and the tricky thing is knowing to press "dimmer-dimmer" to unpark the dimmer. But for the life of me, I can't find how Hog3 brings up dimmers. Sorry for the stupid question, but I've spent a long time looking for it and I feel really stupid that I can't find it. If it's not called DMX or dimmer or DP, I can't guess what it might be.
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    i think the most common way of handling this kind of situation would be to patch all dimmers as separate deskchannels so you have individual control over them, and then use "groups" to select several deskchannels/ dimmers at the same time.
    lots of theatre-style board operators get frustrated by the way some (or even most) top-level lighting consoles handle the control of individual dimmers (not just selecting /patching /testing, but in/out timing issues as well). this leads to comments such as Amerson's "that's pretty basic stuff", and his surprise at finding out the Hog lacks a function he's known in older boards for years.

    what Barnes says is correct: the Hog was designed with different primary functionality in mind. it doesn't handle channels as elegantly as some theatre boards out there, and makes up for it when programming movers.
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    i think the most common way of handling this kind of situation would be to patch all dimmers as separate deskchannels so you have individual control over them, and then use "groups" to select several deskchannels/ dimmers at the same time.
    lots of theatre-style board operators get frustrated by the way some (or even most) top-level lighting consoles handle the control of individual dimmers (not just selecting /patching /testing, but in/out timing issues as well). this leads to comments such as Amerson's "that's pretty basic stuff", and his surprise at finding out the Hog lacks a function he's known in older boards for years.

    what Barnes says is correct: the Hog was designed with different primary functionality in mind. it doesn't handle channels as elegantly as some theatre boards out there, and makes up for it when programming movers.
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