Exporting Material Cards

Granta MI exporters can export material card information for use in CAD, CAE, or PLM applications such as Abaqus/CAE, ANSYS Workbench, CATIA, Creo, and Nastran. All data types except file and picture data can be exported.

Note: This feature is only available if your data view has been configured to enable it.

The material card exporters available in MI Explore will depend on your installation: your Granta MI Data Administrator can create exporters for different types of data, and different packages.

  1. Select the record with the data you want to export and open the Export Material Cards window:
    • In a datasheet toolbar, click Export and choose Export Material Cards.
    • On the List, Scatter plot, Curves, or Thumbnails pages, right-click and choose Export Data > Export Material Cards or, on the toolbar, click Export and choose Export Material Cards.
    The Export Material Cards window opens.
  2. Select a package, for example, Abaqus or Ansys Workbench.
  3. Under Available exporters, double-click the exporter for the data you want to export.
  4. Optional: If the export includes any functional data attributes, enter the parameter values at which the data will be exported:

    Optionally, you can choose to use:

    Default
    This is set at database level when a parameter is defined by your Granta MI data administrator.
    Recommended
    These are optimized to give the minimum number of missing data values, for all the materials you have selected. Recommended values are 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.
    Tip: Click Show data summary to see, for each record, and for each attribute, whether or not any data will be exported at the given parameter values.
When the download is complete, the file will be saved in your browser downloads folder and you'll see it at the bottom of your browser window.