User preferences
Your user preferences control how data is displayed and cached, and how MI Materials Gateway interacts with the CAD, CAE, or PLM host application.
| Profile | Your profile filters the materials data that is available to you in Browse and Search. For more details, see Choose your profile. |
| Unit system | The unit system used to display data within MI Materials Gateway. For
more details, see Choose your unit system. Note: If you
can't connect to the Granta MI database, this setting will not be
available. |
| Number of significant figures to display | Maximum number of significant figures that will be displayed for
numerical data in MI Materials Gateway. You can specify any number
between 0 and 20. Note: This is a display setting only, and you can
enter data with more than the specified number of significant figures
(for instance, when entering an interpolated value for a
parameter). |
| Language | The language used in the MI Materials Gateway interface. |
| Display short names of assignments |
If a material, process, surface treatment, or color has a Short Name defined in the database, display this instead of the full name in the Assignments panel. Applies to MI Materials Gateways for Creo, NX, Teamcenter, Windchill, and HyperMesh. |
| Include all versions of a record in 'Where used' results |
This option is used to specify whether a 'Where Used' search will find all versions of the selected material, process, surface treatment, or color, or only the version currently displayed in MI Materials Gateway. For more details, see Finding where an assignment is used. Applies to MI Materials Gateways for Teamcenter and Windchill. |
| Show multiple instances as separate items |
When this option is selected, multiple instances of a component in an
assembly are shown as separate items in the BoM on the Assignments
panel.
Note: You cannot assign different data to instances of the
same component, regardless of whether this option is
selected. Applies to MI Materials Gateways for Creo, NX, and Teamcenter. |
| Show NX sheet bodies | When this option is selected, you can view sheet bodies on the
Assignments page and assign data to them. Applies to MI Materials
Gateways for NX and Teamcenter. Note: This
feature may not be available on your system. |
| Use default parameter values for CAE model import |
When this option is selected, any CAE material models that require values for parameters (such as Temperature for a temperature-dependent model) will automatically be imported or assigned using the default parameter values specified in the database, provided all of the required data is available. If any data is unavailable, you can review the missing data and specify alternative parameter values. Applies to MI Materials Gateways for Abaqus/CAE, ANSA, Ansys Electronics Desktop, Ansys Workbench, and HyperMesh. Note: This
feature may not be available on your system.
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| Always on top | Always keep the MI Materials Gateway window on top of all other windows. |
| Automatically check out parts before modification |
When this option is selected, you don't need to check out Windchill parts before making assignments. The part is checked out automatically when you make or edit an assignment in MI Materials Gateway. Applies to MI Materials Gateway for Windchill. |
| Automatically check in parts after modification |
When this option is selected, you don't need to check in Windchill parts after making assignments. The part is automatically checked in after any assignment or modification in MI Materials Gateway. Applies to MI Materials Gateway for Windchill. |
| Update cached data | At the start of each MI Materials Gateway session, some data from your Granta MI database is cached (in memory and on disk) in order to improve performance. You can click to update the cache at any time - for example, to reflect the latest changes in the database. |
| Delete cache from disk | Click to clear all Granta MI data from the cache on disk. (The data will remain cached in memory until your MI Materials Gateway session ends.) |