materials external build not copied

[Jee-Bee]

I figured out that when performing an external build that the materials in
At least in the from github downloaded osx and the 0.16 stable both have all the default materials.
So i can copy the files manually but it would be more nice to do this during the build... but no experinece with make/ cmake so don't know if i can do this...

[PrzemoF]

I hope I understand you: you can keep "your" material files in .FreeCAD directory (user config) and all instances of FreeCAD should be able to access it.

[Jee-Bee]

No that's not what i meant ...
When looking to FreeCAD/src/Mod/Material/StandardMaterial/ there is a hole bunch of materials.
when i compile out of source (or so... at least compiling to other directory as source) i left with 5 material properties.

When looking to the mac application contend: I can find the materials in Contents/data/Mod/Material/StandardMaterial
so the materials are moved or copied to another directory.
Eighter the precompiled FreeCAD stable have all materials(109 materials).

I can copy self all the materials to this self compiled location... but it would be nice if this happens automatically.

[PrzemoF]

OK, got it!

Go to src/Mod/Material/CMakeLists.txt and remove #

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# collect all the material cards:
#FILE( GLOB MaterialLib_Files ./StandardMaterial/*.FCMat ./StandardMaterial/*.txt  ) <-- remove the # to get all materials

SET (MaterialLib_Files
    StandardMaterial/None.FCMat
    StandardMaterial/ABS.FCMat
    StandardMaterial/CalculiX-Steel.FCMat
    StandardMaterial/Concrete-Generic.FCMat
    StandardMaterial/PLA.FCMat
    StandardMaterial/Steel-Generic.FCMat
    StandardMaterial/Wood-Generic.FCMat
    StandardMaterial/Readme.txt
)

[Jee-Bee]

thanks... but why is this blocked out?

[sgrogan]

thanks... but why is this blocked out?

Probably to just not copy a bunch of "non-important" files
If you "make install" the directories will be copied automaticalllly. Change the default CMake Install path before you try this. Look in FEM prefs, there's lots of options to customize this.

[luvres]

I have compiled with the #FILE option spared, but I still can not include the materials.

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Sed -i '/ GLOB MaterialLib_Files / s / # //' FreeCAD / src / Mod / Material / CMakeLists.txt

Before:

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# collect all the material cards:
#FILE( GLOB MaterialLib_Files ./StandardMaterial/*.FCMat ./StandardMaterial/*.txt  ) <-- remove the # to get all materials

SET (MaterialLib_Files
    StandardMaterial/None.FCMat
    StandardMaterial/ABS.FCMat
    StandardMaterial/CalculiX-Steel.FCMat
    StandardMaterial/Concrete-Generic.FCMat
    StandardMaterial/PLA.FCMat
    StandardMaterial/Steel-Generic.FCMat
    StandardMaterial/Wood-Generic.FCMat
    StandardMaterial/Readme.txt

After:

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# collect all the material cards:
FILE( GLOB MaterialLib_Files ./StandardMaterial/*.FCMat ./StandardMaterial/*.txt  ) <-- remove the # to get all materials

SET (MaterialLib_Files
    StandardMaterial/None.FCMat
    StandardMaterial/ABS.FCMat
    StandardMaterial/CalculiX-Steel.FCMat
    StandardMaterial/Concrete-Generic.FCMat
    StandardMaterial/PLA.FCMat
    StandardMaterial/Steel-Generic.FCMat
    StandardMaterial/Wood-Generic.FCMat
    StandardMaterial/Readme.txt

Any idea ?