Selecting and Fitting Materials

Use the Materials tool to select and fit materials.

Selecting Materials

Use the Materials tool to select materials for the analysis.

Material selection can be done anytime during the model setup; however, it has to be complete before running the analysis.
  1. From the Extrusion ribbon, click the Materials tool.
  2. In the Material Database dialog, to the right of , click the triangle and select Workpiece.


  3. Select the appropriate material(s) for the analysis by right-clicking on the material and selecting Select from the context menu, or click .
    You can select more than one material. The material(s) that you select will be shown in the Analysis dialog. In that dialog, you will have to identify the materials to be used during the analysis.
    You can select/unselect materials as you choose. For this analysis, however, you need only one material.


    You can review properties of the material including the Flow Stress Graph which allows you to observe the flow stress of the material with respect to strain rate.


Fitting Materials

Use the Materials tool to fit materials.

In order to fit a workpiece material, an input data file is required.
The format of the input file is shown below: 

                        Name = SampleWorkpieceMat1
                        Class = Workpiece
                        Density = 2705
                        SpecificHeat = 900
                        Conductivity = 231
                        CoeffOfThermalExpansion = 1e-005
                        VolumetricHeatSource = 0.0
                        ReferenceTemperature = 700
                        LiquidusTemperature = 930
                        SolidusTemperature = 919
                        YoungModulus = 4.0e+10
                        PoissionRatio = 0.35
                        END HEADER DATA
                        MaxIterations = 21
                        ExtrudabilityNumber = 200
                        PrintTable 1
                        END
  1. From the Extrusion ribbon, click the Materials tool.
  2. In the Material Database dialog, right-click in the dialog and select Fit Material.


  3. Select the file and click OK.
    A material file is created inside the selected folder.

Copying Materials

Use the Materials tool to copy materials.

  1. From the Extrusion ribbon, click the Materials tool.
  2. In the Material Database dialog, right-click on the material and select Copy to user area.


A copy of the selected material will be added to User Materials under the respective material class. Material name can be edited in the highlighted entry. Edit mode is enabled to change any material property.