Cables Material

Cables Material
Menu location
Cables → Cable Materials
Workbenches
Cables
Default shortcut
None
Introduced in version
1.0
See also
Cables Cable, Cables CableBox

Description

The Material creates a series of Arch Materials and Arch Multimaterials ready to use with Cable. Two multimaterials are created by default: cableMultiMat3w and cableMultimat5w. They have proper naming of their composition which corresponds to default names in Sub Colors property of a Cable.

The chosen multimaterial can be attached to the Material property of a Cable.

Example of the default multimaterials:
There are J, L1, N, PE, CU names visible

Usage

1. Create default set of multimaterials by one of these methods:
   • Press the Cable Materials button.
   • Select the Cables → Cable Materials option from the menu.
   • Right-click in the Tree view or the 3D view and select the Cables → Cable Materials option from the context menu.

Notes

The default multimaterials can serve as templates for creation other custom multimaterial sets.

Typical workflow

See Cable Typical workflow