Edit The Shell - Martin Audio MLA MINI Advanced User's Manual

MLA MINI
DISPLAY 2.2

EDIT THE SHELL

The first button is the shell entry that you have already used. If you have completely messed up
the venue drawing you can click on this and start again, the initial drawing will be completely
replaced.
The next button enables you to move any of the nodes. Click on the button and move your cursor
over to the drawing. You will find that the cursor changes to a cross over the drawing area and
when you hover over one of the nodes the circle around the node number will turn green. Click
on the node that you need to move and drag and drop it to its new position.
The next button gives you the opportunity to add nodes if you missed any out in your initial pass.
Click on the button and move your cursor over the drawing, as you move over the dashed lines
between nodes you will see a small green circle appear. When you have the circle in the desired
position single-click and a new node is added and the numbering shifts to accommodate the new
node. If necessary you can use the move node button to reposition the new node however there
is a much quicker way to precisely position the nodes as we will mention shortly.
If it's not entirely obvious the red
appear if you accidentally clicked whilst drawing the slice. As with the 'move' button, click on
the Delete button then move your cursor over the offending node and left click to consign it to
history.
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Θ button is for removing unwanted nodes than can easily
The View buttons help to maximise the drawing, to either the width of
the slice, the height, or to fit the drawing into the extents of the available
window. There are also two check boxes, the first by default makes the
horizontal and vertical scales equal so you get a good proportional view
of the venue shape hover if you have a situation where this makes it
difficult to place the array for example a very long venue with a low
ceiling, uncheck this box and the vertical and horizontal scales will
maximise to the window to allow the maximum detail to be visible.
Finally you can uncheck the Show Coordinates button which removes
the numbering from all nodes.
As mentioned, there is no need whatsoever to enter the nodes accurately
when first drawing the slice, it is time consuming, particularly on a
small screen, and inaccurate. Instead, you can edit all points shown on
the top left list of nodes:
Click on the x coordinate for node 1, in most cases this is likely to
be 0.00 but if not type the correct value and hit the Tab key. The z
coordinate for the node 1 is highlighted and you can type the correct
value. Tab again and the x figure for node 2 is highlighted and so on.
You will get very quick at tabbing through all the coordinates entering
the correct values to give you a perfectly accurate 2D slice drawing.
This obviously is a far quicker method of working.
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