Material and Property

It displays the materials, properties, and table details. Colors can be assigned to material and property, and the bodies can be viewed based on material or property colors using Render Mode options.

Right click options:

Materials:
  • Create, Select Entities, Hide Entities, Delete
  • Sort by: Name / Creation.
  • Import option used to create material from material xml.
  • Export as Material Database: This will write each material as a separate xml file in the selected folder.
  • Export as Specification File: This will export all the selected materials in a selected xml file.
  • Import Material from Solver Deck option is used to create material as Text input from an existing Abaqus deck.
  • Reset Remembered Materials: Simlab always provides some default materials, and it will remember the materials loaded from Material DB. This option used to clear the unused database materials.
Properties:
  • Create, Select Entities, Hide Entities, Delete.
  • Sort by: Name / Creation.
  • Edit Property Name /ID
  • Delete Unused Properties: Option used to delete the properties which are not assigned to any bodies.
Tables:
  • Create Table, Delete.
  • Export
    • Default: Export the table data in a csv / dat file.
    • Node ID Value.
    • Elem ID Value.
  • Plot Contour