Exporting data for CAD or CAE

You can export linear, isotropic, thermal, plastic, temperature-independent, and temperature-dependent data from MI Pro as material cards for use in a number of different CAD and CAE systems.

Data is exported to a text file which may then be imported into Abaqus, Ansys Discovery, Ansys Electronics Desktop, Ansys Fluent, Ansys LS-DYNA, Ansys Mechanical APDL, Ansys Motor-CAD, Ansys Sherlock, Ansys Workbench, Creo Parametric, Nastran, NX, or SOLIDWORKS.

Where temperature-independent data is exported, you can revise the temperature value from the default (room temperature) value.

  1. On the Granta MI Pro application home page, click Open Explore.
  2. Use the search and filter tools to find the records containing the data you want to export.
  3. Select the records and click Export Material Cards.
    Tip: You can also export data from an individual record via the datasheet toolbar.
  4. Under Available packages, select the CAD or CAE package for which you are exporting the data.
  5. Under Available exporters, select the exporter to use.
  6. Click Run.
    If you selected temperature-independent data, you might be able to specify the temperature at which the data will be exported. If the exporter supports this capability, you are prompted to enter the temperature.
  7. Optional: Enter the required Temperature.

    Click Show data summary to see whether data will be exported at the given temperature for each property and each record being exported:



    Note: If you change the Temperature, the data summary is updated to show you which properties will be exported. In this example, you can see red crosses indicating that there is no data at the specified temperature for a number of records/properties:
    • Click Default to reset the Temperature to the default value.
    • Click Recommended to see the optimal values for the given data set. This is calculated as follows:
    • If the "best default" is consistent over all datums, use this value, where the "best default" = datum > attribute > database default > single value if there's only one value.
    • Otherwise, if all the datums have the same attribute default, use this value.
    • Otherwise, if all datums use the database default, use this value.
    • Otherwise, if there's only one value that's used in all the datums, use this value.
    • Otherwise, if there's no intersection and the database default is used, use this value.
  8. Click Export to export the data at the specified temperature.

When the export is complete, the file will be saved in your browser Downloads folder.