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Altair Material Data Center
Altair Material Data Center (AMDC) provides accurate multi-domain material properties to enable the creation of sustainable, efficient, and lightweight designs.
View Material Details
Visualize advanced and accurate material properties and curves. Also, view material impact using Global Warming Potential (GWP) and set your data preferences.
View Plots
Many materials have multi point data associated with them (For example, stress-strain data or PVT data for molding applications). Such data can be viewed as a plots in AMDC.
Adjust Plot View
Adjust the plot view to analyze the material property data.

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Altair Material Data Center
Altair Material Data Center (AMDC) provides accurate multi-domain material properties to enable the creation of sustainable, efficient, and lightweight designs.
- Launch AMDC
  Launch the application to access the Altair material data. You can customize and launch the application from Favorite Apps, on the Altair One Home page.
- AMDC Access and License
  Upgrade your Altair Material Data Center access to Explorer and ExplorerPlus to unlock all material data and the application features.
- Ziegler PEM Material Database
- Integrated Desktop Applications
  Get instant access to an exhaustive database with thousands of simulation ready materials directly from within Altair desktop applications! This seamless integration automatically lists materials suitable for the application and lets users look up, search, compare and download CAE-ready material cards directly in the software.
- Whats New
  Here’s a quick look at the latest features available with Altair Material Data Center.
- Tutorials
  Discover the features of AMDC with step by step tutorials and videos.
- Search Materials
  Search a material or a list of materials using quick search, advanced search or scatter plots.
- Compare Materials
  Select one or more materials to compare the chosen materials data.
- Filter Materials
  Browse and filter materials using the predefined categories as filters in the left navigation pane that most suit your requirements.
- Similar Materials
  Find similar materials in terms of mechanical, thermal, or electrical properties.
- View Material Details
  Visualize advanced and accurate material properties and curves. Also, view material impact using Global Warming Potential (GWP) and set your data preferences.
  - View Material Information
    View information such as material name, quality, type, provider, version, chemical composition of a material, material test information, and detailed material properties.
  - View Material Properties
    The material properties data such as Fatigue Properties, Mechanical Properties is displayed. The tested data for these properties is also displayed as supplied by the provider.
  - View Generic Data
    AMDC fills the missing data with the the generic product data for the trade products.
  - View Plots
    Many materials have multi point data associated with them (For example, stress-strain data or PVT data for molding applications). Such data can be viewed as a plots in AMDC.
    - Adjust Plot View
      Adjust the plot view to analyze the material property data.
    - View Long Term Heat Aging Plots
      Understand a material's thermal endurance and Arrhenius parameters by visualizing Long Term Heat Aging (LTHA) plots.
  - Global Warming Potential
    The environmental impact of a material is indicated in its carbon footprint and Global Warming Potential (GWP).
- Export Material Data
  Export material data sheets with plots as a PDF and CAE simulation-ready material cards to your workstation or Altair Drive.
- Share Material Data
  Share material information in an email, document or message. Recipients of the link can view the material information in AMDC.
- Customize Table View
  Customize the materials data in table view. Add, remove material properties as table columns, reorder the columns and sort them.
- Set AMDC Theme
  Set theme of AMDC.
- Manage Favorites
  Create and maintain different lists of favorite materials to quickly access from the catalog or maintain a list of materials for your project.
- Set Preferences
  AMDC currently supports English and German languages, different themes, and Metric and U.S. Customary units as unit systems.
- AMDC Private Database
  An administrator is provided access to the AMDC Dashboard to access specfic administrative related tasks to maintain up to date information in the Altair Material Database.
- AMDC Archived Release Notes
  Here are the release notes for features and updates to Altair Material Data Center.
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Adjust Plot View

Adjust the plot view to analyze the material property data.

Use the plot option menu to adjust the plot view. Hover over the cursor to view the plot options on the top-right in the Plots tab.

Choose one of the following:
- Double-click the material.
- Hover over a material, click
A window opens to the right.
By default, the Info tab displays general information of the selected material.
Note: Click to view the material information in a full screen mode.
Click Plot.

Select the required material data under the Plots list.

The selected material data is displayed as a plot.

Drag a square using the cursor point to zoom the curve plots to read the data. Double-click the cursor point to reset the axes of a plot.

Hover over the plot, as you move the cursor, the X and Y values are displayed.

Plot Details — Figure 1. Plot Details

As you move the cursor on the plot, the plot options menu is displayed. The following table explains the usage of plot options:


Icon	Description
	Click to zoom in the plot curves.
	Click to zoom out the plot curves.
	Click to auto scale the plot curve's view.
	Click to reset the axes of a plot.
	Click to export the plot data into a CSV file.
	Click to export the plot data into a PDF file.