Importing materials in CAE applications

In Abaqus/CAE, ANSA, Ansys Electronics Desktop, and Ansys Workbench, you can use MI Materials Gateway to import materials to your simulation model, project, or library. The imported material card includes a consistent, traceable link back to the source data in your Granta MI system.

  • Find materials to import in the upper half of the Gateway window. You can search or browse your Granta MI database, or use a material from your favorites.
    Tip: If your Granta MI system has been configured to store specialized data for a material as separate simulation records, you can right-click a material to find its simulation records.
  • View and manage your imported Granta MI materials in the lower half of the Gateway window (the Imported material cards panel).
Materials are imported as material models, with the properties and data specified in the model definition.
Note: In ANSA, when you import a material model, it is specific to the finite element solver that is currently selected.