Browsing Granta MI data
To find materials in your Granta MI databases, you can browse to explore families or categories of materials. In Gateways for Creo, NX, Teamcenter, and Windchill, if your system supports the assignment of processes, surface treatments, or colors, then you can also browse for these in the same way.
The Browse page shows a tree view of the data.
Note: If profiles are in use on your Granta MI
system, the Browse tree is filtered by your current profile, which you can change using 
on the left of the Search
bar. For more information, see Choose your profile.
on the left of the Search
bar. For more information, see Choose your profile.Within each
database 
, individual
records 
are grouped into
folders 
and
tables 
- for example,
representing families or categories of related materials.
- The symbol
indicates a
material record that has no value for Density in the database. You can use materials
with no Density value if your system is configured to support it. For more details,
see your Granta data administrator. - In some databases, generic records
may used to summarize the properties
of a group of similar materials. A generic record is shown in the tree structure as a
'folder with data', that contains the materials it represents. It has its own material
property values, which represent the maximum and minimum values for the materials in the
group, and can be assigned and used in the same way as any material.
- To show or hide the contents of a database, record table, or folder
within the tree, click
or 
next to its name. - To filter the data on show, enter a search term in the
Filter box at the top of the Browse tree. Click
to clear the filter. - To expand the tree to show all records, click
on the right of the filter box. To collapse the tree to show
only the top-level structures (databases, tables, or folders), click 
.