Saving materials

[Andrew Moiseev]

When you save materials in the material editor where do they go? do they go anywhere?

[Barry Thomas]

They go where you tell them to go. Upon clicking FILE and then SAVE AS in the stand alone material editor, or right clicking a material and selecting "Save Material to File..." on the Materials Dialog tile, you are presented with a dialog box in which you select the name and destination for the file.

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[Andrew Moiseev]

when I click the save icon I get nothing

[Barry Thomas]

Works here, make sure you have focus on the nXt application file, you may have to click it twice. 

Something I have noticed though, and I had been meaning to report it, but I haven't been able to get any realy useful data to lead to a fix, if in fact there is something broke....is that after a very long AutoCAD/nXt rendering session, the controls on the nXt tile become unusable. Clicking on anything does bring up that particular item, but before I have time to react, the menu disappears. Shutting down and restarting the session does make all well. I just figured it was a memory thing

Have you been in an extended session?

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[Roy Hirshkowitz]

Not exactly sure what you're asking-- be very specific.  Which save icon? Are you working in AutoCAD or in the stand-alone editor?

[Andrew Moiseev]

Its working now, I'll have to play with it to see if I can replicate it, can you save all the materials at once?

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

I don't think so-- I think they need to be saved one at a time.

[Sampdoria]

Over the past 12 months+ I've been saving key materials made from scratch for different scenarios and now its bearing fruit to have ones favourite materials all organized. Its like an Itunes for Materials!