Contents

• Introduction
• Using the Help System
• Raw Materials
• Graphic Displays
• Working Environments
• Interactive Displays

Installing Matrix

• Overview
• Organising Matrix Files
• Establishing Default Settings
• Registering File Types
• Setting Up Your
  • Local Materials Database
  • Auto Materials Database

Tool Bar Functions

• Tool Bar Overview

Temperature / Atmosphere Settings

• Setting Temperature / Cone Displays
• Comparing Temperature / Cone Scales

Quick Start

• Enter and Save a Recipe

Recipe to Formula

• Overview
• Entering a New Recipe
• Clearing Displayed Recipe Data
• Recipe File Structure
• Saving a Recipe
  • as an individual file
  • to a database
• Saving a Glaze Picture
• Saving a Recipe Text File
• Deleting a Recipe From Your Hard Drive
• Formula Calculations
• Loading an Individual Recipe
• Loading a Database Recipe
• Changing a Recipe
• Monitoring Calculations on a chart.
• Viewing Raw Material Information
• Using Limit Formula Graphs
• Viewing Database Recipes on a Limits Graph
• Printing a Displayed Recipe
• Sending Recipe Data to Other Environments
• Creating Batch Recipes and Calculating Costs

Formula to Recipe

• Overview
• Loading Recipe's from Disc
• Entering a New Formula
• Changing a Displayed Formula
• Making a New Recipe from a Formula using...
  • Auto Mode
  • Preselect Mode
  • Manual Mode
  • Using the Split Fill Function
• Using the Graph in the Formula Management window ...

Raw Materials

• Overview
• Raw Materials Databases
• Materials File Structure
• Sources of Raw Material Data
• Entering a New Material
• Changing an Existing Material's Data
• Making a New Raw Materials Database
• Find / Compare Materials Window
• Database Table Window - Material Lists
• Copying Materials Between Databases

Setting Unity

• Setting the Unity Group

Blends

• Overview
• Creating a Blend
• Line Blends
• Triaxial Blends
• Quadraxial or Biaxial Blends
• Currie Standard Recipe Grids
• Saving a and Printing Blend Data
• Viewing Blend Data on Screen
• Volumetric Blending

Colourants

• Overview
• Entering & Editing or Deleting Colourant Materials
  

Recipe Databases

• Overview
• Search Recipe Window
• Managing Recipe Databases
• Viewing a Recipe Database in a Table
• Deleting a Recipe From a Database
• Recipe Database Limits Graphs

Glaze Pictures

• Overview
• Creating a Glaze Picture
• Linking the Picture to its Recipe

Glaze Text Files

• Overview
  • Creating a Recipe Text File
  • Linking the Text File to Its Recipe
• The Matrix Text Editor
• Emailing a Recipe

% Analysis Triaxial Graphs

• Overview
• Matrix % Analysis Triaxial Graph
• Displaying Oxide Eutectics

Limit Formula

• Overview
• Viewing Limits Data on Graphs
• Edit / View Limits Tables
• Entering New Limits Data
• Creating Your Own Limits Data

Coefficients of Expansion

• Overview
• Table of Expansion Coefficients
• Editing / Entering New Expansion Factors

Printing Hard Copies

• Overview

Matrix Preferences

• Overview

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