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After a recipe
has been entered or loaded from disc into the R.1 panel or the R.2
panel it may be saved to disc as an individual file or to
a recipe database.
Individual
Recipe Files
An individual
recipe file is a single recipe with no links to other recipes
on your disc. The size of an individual recipe file is around 12
kilobytes. The individual recipe file is a useful format for saving
new recipes which may not yet be tested and which you may wish to
make changes to. It is an easy file to transport via email to another
Matrix user. It is also easy to reorganise individual recipe files
in folders inside your Individual Recipe Files folder.
The contents
of an individual recipe file is as follows:
- recipe name
- up to 14
materials with quantities
- up to 5 colourants
and quantities
- the temperature
and cone for the glaze (reads the temperature setting and units
in the Matrix window)
- unity formula
values
- qualities
- opacity, texture, stability, fit, firing details, status,
colour
- date
- clay body
on which glaze was tested
- comment [250
characters]
- Text File
Path for locating an attached document
- Image File
Path for locating an attached glaze picture
- Coefficient
of Expansion
- Surface Tension
- Al2O3 : SiO2
ratio
Recipe Databases
A recipe
database is nothing more than a collection of individual recipe
files packed together into one file. A recipe database can hold
up to 100 recipes. Each recipe in the database contains the same
content information as a single recipe file. The advantage of saving
recipes into a databases is that you can collect similar recipes
together and Matrix will allow you to search for recipes with particular
qualities within the database.
Locating recipes
in a database is easier in many ways because the list of recipes
is displayed in a single dialog which also displays a recipes' formulae
and any images which are attached to the recipes.
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