How do I add new materials ?

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Mikehell
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How do I add new materials ?

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Can't seem to find this documented anywhere. How do I add materials to the preview? I want to add a few different color plastics.

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Re: How do I add new materials ?

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You can add preview materials to the Public Documents\Vectric Files\Material Images folder and then you won't need to re-install them after each upgrade as you do with the older method using the Application Data folder.

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Re: How do I add new materials ?

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Mikehell wrote:Can't seem to find this documented anywhere.
Except in the manual…
Search for "Adding custom materials" in the "preview toolpath" section.
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Re: How do I add new materials ?

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Not sure about the manual but there is a short tutorial in tips & tricks section :lol:

http://support.vectric.com/tips-and-tri ... ideo_id=23

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martin54 wrote:Not sure about the manual
You may be right Martin, I was checking Aspire manual, not Vcarve.
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Re: How do I add new materials ?

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Mike,

What I did was to search for the folder that contains the materials, opened one of the files in Photoshop and saved it as a template (so you automatically have correct file size and dpi). Then you can paste whatever material you want onto that image, flatten and save as your new material. I rotated all my woods so that I have horizontal and vertical grains, saved with an H or a V. You can take a picture of whatever you want to add to your materials and just paste it into your template file. If you don't have Photoshop, you can get Gimp as Open Source (FREE) and do the same thing.

Mike

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Re: How do I add new materials ?

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Not suure if this is what your lokking for but this is what i found -open help( i have v-carve 8) and in the pdf ( search or find )type in Adding Custom Materials this is listed under preview toolpaths main topic .
It will give you locations to put in your bitmap textures

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