Material vs Paint
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Just wondering what is the actual and practical implications arising from the difference between "material" and "paint".
Questions comes up as I tried to decipher why CutList wasn't working.
Turns out that I think Cutlist 4.1 misbehaves if there is some odd rounding error in the thickness of some sheet good parts. But working on getting to that conclusion left me perplexed about paint and material. From What I can tell, designating a "material" just paints with texture. How close or far off am I . . . ?
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I've never had any problem with CutList not working. I've used it for a number of years without problem. what do you mean by a rounding error? What dimension is getting rounded? Which version of the plugin are you using?
As for the difference between "paint" and "material", I don' think there is any. I think they are used interchangeably although I suppose some would refer to simple solid colors as paint while a texture image might be referred to as a material. In terms of the cutlist and materials, you could use solid colors so as not to have to deal with grain orientation and give the colors wood names or whatever you like.
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