QuickQ - Updating Fixture Library or Adding an Individual Fixture to the Library

Updating the Fixture Library 

When you patch a fixture, the fixture is copied from the fixture library to your show file.

So to start with the freshest fixtures, you need an up-to-date fixture library!

We update the fixture library every day

online at around 7 PM EDT. It is a separate file from the console software named the "heads.all" file.


  1. Download the latest fixture library, the "heads.all" found here
  2. Copy it to a USB stick and insert the stick in the console.
  3. Select the menu button on the top right, then select Files
  4. Select Install Fixture Library File from the Files menu. 
  5. Select the "heads.all" file on the USB drive. 

Updating a fixture in an existing show file in QuickQ is not possible.

You will need to start a new show file and re-patch and re-program your show. Alternatively, send a copy of your show file to either support@chamsyslighting.com if you are in the USA or for the rest of the world, support@chamsys.co.uk

Adding individual Fixture Files(s) to the console

If you have been sent an individual ".hed" file (perhaps you requested we build a fixture for you), then use this method. It will add the fixture to the console and you can then use it to patch in a new show.


  1. Download the individual fixture(s) file "fixturename.hed" supplied by ChamSys
  2. Copy to a USB stick and insert the stick in the console.
  3. Select the menu button on the top right, then select Files
  4. Select Install Fixture File from the Files menu. 
  5. Select the file fixture "fixturename.hed" file on the USB drive.

QuickQ Designer

You can use the same procedures above to install the fixture library or files on the Software.

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