<h1 style='margin-right: 0in;margin-left: 0in;font-size: 24pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;font-weight: bold;'><span style='font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #3e3e3e;'>Tape Light Assistant</span></h1>
<h2 style='margin-right: 0in;margin-left: 0in;font-size: 18pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;font-weight: bold;'><span style='font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #3e3e3e;'>What is it?</span></h2>
<p style='margin-right: 0in;margin-left: 0in;font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;'><span style='font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #3e3e3e;'>Tape Light Assistant is a new feature found within Canvas View designed to help you design a solution with the Multi-Channel Tape Controller along and that the design matches the specifications of the product.</span></p>
<h2 style='margin-right: 0in;margin-left: 0in;font-size: 18pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;font-weight: bold;'><span style='font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #3e3e3e;'>Where is it?</span></h2>
<p style='margin-right: 0in;margin-left: 0in;font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;'><span style='font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #3e3e3e;'>Tape Light Assistant is only found within Canvas View.</span></p>
<ul style='margin-bottom: 0in;margin-top: 0px;'><li style='margin-right: 0in;font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;margin-left: 0px;'><span style='font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #3e3e3e;'>Create a fixture with the product type ‘Multi-Channel Tape Controller'</span></li><li style='margin-right: 0in;font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;margin-left: 0px;'><span style='font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #3e3e3e;'>Add the fixture to your floor-plan.</span></li><li style='margin-right: 0in;font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;margin-left: 0px;'><span style='font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #3e3e3e;'>Double-click <strong><span style='font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;'>or</span></strong> right click → 'Edit Properties’ on the fixture.</span></li></ul>
<p style='margin: 0in;font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;'><img src='https://lutron.my.salesforce-sites.com/publicknowledge/servlet/rtaImage…; alt='gif1.gif'></img></p>
<h2 style='margin-right: 0in;margin-left: 0in;font-size: 18pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;font-weight: bold;'><span style='font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #3e3e3e;'>Why use it?</span></h2>
<p style='margin-right: 0in;margin-left: 0in;font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;'><span style='font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #3e3e3e;'>Tape Light Assistant can be leveraged to take the guesswork out of designing a beautiful tape light experience. A troubleshooting guide will be provided if the tape light design results in reduced tape light output.</span></p>
<h2 style='margin-right: 0in;margin-left: 0in;font-size: 18pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;font-weight: bold;'><span style='font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #3e3e3e;'>How to use it?</span></h2>
<p style='margin-right: 0in;margin-left: 0in;font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;'><span style='font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #3e3e3e;'>To use Tape Light Assistant, fill out the fields in the tool that are relevant to the configuration. The tool will automatically give feedback based on the value entered.</span></p>
<ul style='margin-bottom: 0in;margin-top: 0px;'><li style='margin-right: 0in;font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;margin-left: 0px;'><span style='font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #3e3e3e;'>For fixture that only have one run of tape, enter 0 for the values for the second run in order to get accurate feedback.</span></li><li style='margin-right: 0in;font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;margin-left: 0px;'><span style='font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #3e3e3e;'>To find more information on the terminology, click on the info icon next to ‘Tape Design Assistant’ to see a helpful diagram of the default configuration.</span></li><li style='margin-right: 0in;font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;margin-left: 0px;'><span style='font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #3e3e3e;'>If there are multiple fixtures that will have the same configuration, right click → ‘Copy’ on the fixture with desired configuration and right click ‘Paste’ anywhere on the floorplan.</span></li></ul>
<table class='MsoNormalTable' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='1' style='border-collapse: collapse;border: none;'><tbody><tr style='page-break-inside: avoid;'><td colspan='1' rowspan='1' style='border: solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding: 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt;'>
<p style='margin: 0in;font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;'><img src='https://lutron.my.salesforce-sites.com/publicknowledge/servlet/rtaImage…; alt='gif2.gif'></img></p>
</td><td colspan='1' rowspan='1' style='border: solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-left: none;padding: 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt;'>
<p style='margin: 0in;font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;'><img src='https://lutron.my.salesforce-sites.com/publicknowledge/servlet/rtaImage…; alt='gif3.gif'></img></p>
</td></tr></tbody></table>
<h2 style='margin-right: 0in;margin-left: 0in;font-size: 18pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;font-weight: bold;'><span style='font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #3e3e3e;'>Additional Resources:</span></h2>
<ul style='margin-bottom: 0in;margin-top: 0px;'><li style='margin-right: 0in;font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;margin-left: 0px;'><span style='text-decoration: underline;'><a href='http://lutron.com/tapelightassist' target='_blank'><span style='font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #006dcc;text-decoration: underline;'>RGB+Tunable White Troubleshooting Guide</span></a></span></li><li style='margin-right: 0in;font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;margin-left: 0px;'><span style='text-decoration: underline;'><a href='http://assets.lutron.com/a/documents/043611.pdf' target='_blank'><span style='font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #006dcc;text-decoration: underline;'>Multi-Channel Tape Controller Installation Guide</span></a></span></li><li style='margin-right: 0in;font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;margin-left: 0px;'><span style='text-decoration: underline;'><a href='https://assets.lutron.com/a/documents/048830.pdf' target='_blank'><span style='font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #006dcc;text-decoration: underline;'>Application Note</span></a><span style='color: blue;text-decoration: underline;'><span style='font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #006dcc;text-decoration: underline;'> 830</span></span></span></li></ul>
This article covers how to use the Tape Light Assistant tool within the Lutron Designer software. This tool will help with designing applications that use the