topic Re: Properties for custom materials in Inventor Programming Forum

Properties for custom materials

rb — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 16:13:41 GMT

Hello,

We are using Inventor with various material's that are not included in the standard material library.

Where can I find the physical properties for these materials to add them in our custom library:

Cast Iron ASTM A48 Class 30

Cast Steel ASTM A216 GR WCB

Ductile Iron ASTM A536 GR 60-40-18

Ductile Iron ASTM A536 GR 65-45-12

Duplex Stainless Steel ASTM A-182 GR F51

Duplex Stainless Steel ASTM A240 GR F 51

LT Carbon Steel ASTM A333 GR 6

LT Carbon Steel ASTM A350 GR LF2

LT Carbon Steel ASTM A420 GR WPL-6

LT Carbon Steel ASTM A516 GR 70

NLT Carbon Steel ASTM A105

NLT Carbon Steel ASTM A106 GR B

NLT Carbon Steel ASTM A234 GR WPB

NLT Carbon Steel ASTM A36

NLT Carbon Steel ASTM A53 GR B

Stainless Steel ASTM A-182 GR F 316L

Stainless steel ASTM A240 GR 316L/LN

Stainless Steel ASTM A351 GR CF3M

Stainless Steel ASTM A890 GR 1B

Stainless Steel Type 6% Mo ASTM A182 GR F44

Stainless Steel Type 6% Mo ASTM A240 GR F44

Super Duplex Stainless Steel ASTM A-182 GR F 53/55

Super Duplex Stainless Steel ASTM A240 GR F 53/55

Or perhaps it already exist an oil and gas library where these are included?

We don't want to add new materials without having all the phyiscal properties 100% correct for the purpose of trusting mass, simulation and analysis performed within Inventor.

For the purpose of getting our BOM's right I understand we could simply add the material with any properties and not be so meticulous.

Looking forward to any ideas.

Re: Properties for custom materials

bradeneuropeArthur — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 23:14:41 GMT

I am curious too!

Re: Properties for custom materials

rb — Sat, 26 Dec 2020 21:19:12 GMT

It would be awesome to get in contact with a material engineer who could help develop an open library with "all" materials within the oil and gas / petrochemical industry / process industry that we could share here on the forum.

I have even been in contact with our Autodesk partner company and they doesn't posses the skills to develop a library true to the list in my initial post.

Personally I don't know enough about materials to feel confident of filling all those property fields correct and convert the material properties I find the to the units of measurement used in the inventor material editor etc.

My material list is just an extract. To make the library really useful we need to add another 20-30 materials. I can share those if anyone feels confident to develop the library itself.

The only material customization I have done so far is to add SSAB's free library which includes a lot of specific material standards rather than the generic ones included in Inventor by default.... for everyone interested you can download it here https://www.ssab.com/support/calculators-and-tools/material-library-for-autodesk-inventor

It is mainly for structural steels.

Thoughts? Is anyone with the proper material skills interested to develop and sharing a library to all forum members?

Re: Properties for custom materials

bradeneuropeArthur — Sun, 27 Dec 2020 08:36:01 GMT

I am curious of the list you have. We have the same issue finding all the astm materials for bolting structures. We have started praparing them. But it keeps time-consuming and a struggle!

Re: Properties for custom materials

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 19:14:34 GMT

Are you still stuck? We have been trying to devlop interface to bring materials from Teamcenter to Inventor. Teamcenter has lots of interfaces & integrations with Material libraries like granta, IMDS, ansys, MatML etc and someone would have all necessary material properties. We can check if we can get those materials into Teamcenter then we can help you create the Inventor library.

Re: Properties for custom materials

BK-MTFNE — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 15:25:20 GMT

Just wanting to bring this post back up and see if anyone has seen anything come out addressing this? I dont understand how a software that does FEA does not have many basic materials already in its libraries.

Re: Properties for custom materials

rb — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 14:27:03 GMT

@Anonymous @BK-MTFNE @bradeneuropeArthur hello guys, yes I am still stuck.

What we ended up doing was to create all materials with the same material properties. Meaning that I copied the standard base materials in the Inventor default library and just changed name to the materials I needed. I try to use a base material that is at least in the same family as my custom material to have weight information fairly accurate.

This means my drawings shows the materials we need but I can of course not any feature of the program that rely on the material properties such as strength simulations.

I think we need to put som effort to create a big public material library where we can create and share properly configured materials. I am not sure if we know some material engineer that can do this on free time?

I have more than 200 custom ASTM and EN materials that looks beautiful but all the properties are incorrect. Absolutely bullshit.

Re: Properties for custom materials

nikolas_junioor7G4B3 — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 13:45:52 GMT

Hey @rb , I think all users who do serious projects suffer from the same problem as us. You can't just use the materials that AI makes available. I've been trying to configure my library as I need it, but there are so many standards, so many different materials that this list never ends.

I'm a user of SAE/AISI and ASTM materials, but unlike you, I don't necessarily need such reliable mechanical properties.
Could you share the ones you have with us?

Re: Properties for custom materials

Matt.WestSU7H9 — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 16:54:00 GMT

Just reviving this post. I need a more detailed library as well. Anyone find anything?