[mtripoli]

I've got a couple of questions.

Emitters: when I create a new emitter and assign it to a part (a simple triangle for instance) it doesn't "accept" the emitter material. If I give it a different material it seems to work fine.

Database manager: This may be a dumb question, but I seem to remember a lot more MXMs available . In the "bottom" section (Layers, BSDF's, Coatings, etc) it shows a catalog with "Volume 1" but there is nothing there. Again, I seem to remember a bunch of emitters listed here.

Thanks,

Mike T.

[JDHill]

On the first question, is the problem that an assigned emitter material is not transferred into the MXS file, or is it that you literally cannot assign an emitter material to geometry insided the plugin? In other words, if you check the entity in Scene Manager > Object Properties, what does the plugin think you have assigned? Then, if you export to Studio, what does Studio show as being assigned? Also, what version does the plugin report when you click main menu > Maxwell > About from within SolidWorks?

On the second question, Maxwell V2 has always had a smaller MXM library than V1 did. The pre-installed MXM files in V2 are of higher quality (V1 basically had very few types, but had them in a bunch of of different colors), and V2 includes better material wizards (right-click Scene Manager > Materials) Regarding the plugin's Database Manager, pages other than the MXM Browser only contain components which you have dragged there yourself, from the plugin's Material editor.

[mtripoli]

Understood on the MXM's.

About the emitters. The emitter material is being assigned to the object. Here's where I was being thrown. As I changed the size of the object the appearance on the screen would change, leading me to believe that the emitter material wasn't being assigned. Here's my "dumb" question;the size of the object affects the appearence of the object? I know it does with a "normal" material that may have a bitmap (like scratches on metal) but I do not remember emitters behaving this way (going back to v1.7). In the following image the two emitters have the same emitter MXM. The smaller triangle is 5 inches, the second is 20 inches. Am I remembering wrong; in the past these would both be the same "color" if the the numerical value was the same, regardless of size?

Thanks.
Mike T.

[JDHill]

They should match, visually, if you use ~650W in the emitter assigned to the larger triangle. That is to say, while they do both have the same color, what they do not both have, is the same power density, given that the larger triangle has ~16x the surface area of the smaller one.

[mtripoli]

Thanks JD. After posting last night I went in and played with this. It makes perfect sense that they don't have the same power density. For whatever reason my memory wasn't matching what I was seeing. Call it old age...

Thanks again,

Mike T.