Viewing and Modifying Material Attributes
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In the Select Definition dialog box or the Edit Libraries dialog box, select the material you want to view or modify.
Note: Maxwell's global material library cannot be modified. Materials from the library can be modified, but not saved back to the system library. They can be saved to a User Library or Personal Library. -
Click View/Edit Materials.
The View/Edit Material dialog box appears. The material name and its property values are listed.
Note: By default, not all of the available properties are displayed in the materials table. Only the properties commonly used by the product are displayed. To view the complete table of properties, see Filtering Materials. - Under View/Edit Material for, select:
- Active Design to display properties used in the active design.
- Active Project to display properties used by this project.
- All Properties to display all properties available. This enlarges the table of properties to show all properties possible. You can use the scroll bars or size the dialog to see all properties.
- You can modify the material as follows:
- Provide a new name for the material in the Material Name text box.
- Under Type, specify whether a material property is Simple, Anisotropic, Vector and Vector Mag, or for Relative Permeability, Nonlinear, as required for that property.
- For Simple, provide a value or variable.
- For Anisotropic, provide tensor values.
- For Vector, provide a Vector Mag, or Unit Vector X, Y, and Z Component values.
- For Nonlinear, provide a Data Set.
- Provide new material property values in the Value boxes.
- Change the units for a material property.
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For Material Appearance, you can check the Use Material Appearance box to enable the fields for you to specify a color and transparency for the material.
- Clicking the Color bar opens a standard color selection window.
- Clicking the Transparency box opens a Transparency dialog with a text field and slider bar for selection.
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If you want to add descriptive notes for the new material, click the ellipsis button [...] by the Notes field. This opens a dialog in which you can enter text. To enter multiple lines of notes, use Ctrl + Enter to start a new line. (Enter by itself will save the Notes field and close the dialog.)
- Click OK to save the changes and return to the Select Definition or Edit Libraries dialog box.
Selecting All Properties also enables the three Physics check boxes: Electromagnetic, Thermal, and Structural. These check boxes are used to filter the properties displayed in the table by physics type. Clearing a check box hides properties of that physics type.