A material is what you use to visually identify the lowest level objects in your design. Many times in woodworking design the material is some species of wood. A material might be named light cherry and use a texture or image of cherry wood. You can use any type of material in your design - metals, glass, cloth, leather.
For the purposes of SketchList 3D materials have two properties - its image or appearance, and a variation on that, its degree of transparency.
The size of the material has no role in the SketchList 3D Version 4 design process. In earlier versions of Sketchlist 3D the size of a material selected by the user restricted the size of a board to the dimensions of the material. This forced users who needed a larger material for a given board size to exit the design mode to create a suitably sized material.
Version 4 separates material size from board size until the optimizing process. You can create one board with dimensions of 48 X 92 and another board with dimensions of 4 X 16. SketchList 3D as part of the optimizing process will place the larger board onto the 48 X 96 sheet and the other board on a 4 X 60 sheet if you indicated these two sizes of materials exist. In the example the user had entered 48 X 96 and 4 X 60 as potential sizes for materials.
The key is that a step in the setup process you entered the available 'potential' sizes of materials. If your design calls for pieces of 6 X 72 oak when all that is available from your supplier is 4 X 96 and 8 X 72 oak. At the optimization stage SketchList 3D will dynamically use the 8 X 72 that is available when you enter that size in the 'available size' setup form.
 Material Type
Click to restrict the list to a specific type of material. This is a way to categorize the materials to speed access and reporting.
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 Material List
Scroll up and down to find your material. Double click to open editing form. |
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 New Material
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 Opacity
Opacity is the degree to which light is not allowed to travel through an object. 0 percent opacity means no light can pass through - the object cannot be see through. 100 percent opacity means no light is blocked and you can see clearly through an object.
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 Horizontal Scale
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 Vertical Sacle
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