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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.
Whats New
Here’s a quick look at the latest features available with Altair Material Data Center.

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What's New
Here’s a quick look at the latest features available with Altair One.
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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.
- 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 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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Whats New

Here’s a quick look at the latest features available with Altair Material Data Center.

Supported Browsers

Launch a Browser and call Altair Material Data Center^TM to access from any device, from anywhere.

Table 1.
Browser	Supported Version (or higher)
Chrome	84.0.4147.0
Firefox	78.0.2
Edge	84.0.4147.0
Safari	13.1.1 (14609.2.9.1.3)

AMDC Release Notes 2024.1

The release notes provide details about the new features and enhancements in AMDC 2024.1

Material Data

New Materials: 200 new materials added, including steels, various polymers and ceramics.
New Properties and Diagram Types: Materials with data for 3D Printing are now available.
Data for CAE:
- New material data for binder sinter method can be directly downloaded into Inspire Print3D.
- Polymers with injection molding can now be exported to CADMOULD.

New Features for AMDC Public Database

Concurrent User Licenses:

Introducing concurrent licensing, allowing a specified number of users to access AMDC simultaneously.
Available for both Private Database and Public Database.

Enhancements in CAE Interfaces:

Improved integration with Altair CAE tools, now supporting connections to Private Databases.
CADMOULD support for injection molding materials.

Improvements in UI and User Experience:

CAE Card preview can now be collapsed or expanded.
Reworked main menu for easier access to additional databases.

New Features for AMDC Private Database

Application Viewer:

Customers can link materials with specific applications and add detailed information for proprietary materials.
Users can explore applications and find the best-suited materials.

Data Edit Enhancements:

The Data Edit application is a powerful material data administrative tool used to update, edit, and create materials in the database.
The application is enhanced with filters to list materials by producers, type, and newly imported or updated materials.