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Alternative materials

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 09:22:04 GMT

Anyone know where to find/import alternative materialstyles

egg. AISI 301? EN 1,4310?

Working whit sheet metal parts an missing a lot of materials.

I know how change the existing materials, but would rather import them from the web.

Regards

Rasmus

Re: Alternative materials

xiaodong_liang — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 07:02:50 GMT

Hi，

I am not much clear what you wanted to do. What I know is: you can add a new material by Materials.Add and the material can set the RenderStyle which could configure some parameters from the params of the source material.

Re: Alternative materials

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 08:12:44 GMT

I'm looking to import materials. I do not know from where( fx. Supplyer)and if it's possible? Venlig hilsen/ Best Regard Rasmus Danielsen AH Metal Solutions A/S

Re: Alternative materials

xiaodong_liang — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 03:26:51 GMT

Sorry, I am not still not clear what you meant by "Import Material".

In UI, you can create material, open existing library. Did you meant the equivalent ability of API?

Re: Alternative materials

Anonymous — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 05:41:17 GMT

Yes. The same as API. An also if some metalsupplyers can supply the data for import. Venlig hilsen/ Best Regard Rasmus Danielsen AH Metal Solutions A/S

Re: Alternative materials

tuliobarata — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 10:56:37 GMT

I guess its the same what I'm looking for, some pre defined materials with the right properties values of it standard, like AISI 304, ASTM A-36, ANSI XX, etc....

here I didnt find any site with files to import, so I had to create one by one, at least the more usuals here...

Re: Alternative materials

xiaodong_liang — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 03:00:10 GMT

Hi,

What I can see is: you have to add the materials youself with the current API. I did not see a way to import a material. Sorry.