• i. Copyright and Trademark Information
• 1. Welcome to the Help for Granta Selector
• 2. Getting started
  • 2.1. Toolbar guide
  • 2.2. Keyboard shortcuts
  • 2.3. Getting Started with Granta Selector
    • 2.3.1. Browse, Search and Chart
      • 2.3.1.1. Exercise 1: Opening a database
      • 2.3.1.2. Exercise 2: Browse Materials
      • 2.3.1.3. Exercise 3: Browse Processes
      • 2.3.1.4. Exercise 4: Searching
      • 2.3.1.5. Exercise 5: Create a bar chart
      • 2.3.1.6. Exercise 6: Create a bubble chart
    • 2.3.2. Functional data
      • 2.3.2.1. Exercise 1: Viewing Functional Data
      • 2.3.2.2. Exercise 2: Setting Parameters for Functional Data
    • 2.3.3. Selection Stages and Engineering Solver
      • 2.3.3.1. Exercise 1: Selection using a Chart Stage
      • 2.3.3.2. Exercise 2: Selection using a Limit Stage
      • 2.3.3.3. Exercise 3: Calculate Limit values using the Engineering Solver
      • 2.3.3.4. Exercise 4: Selection using a Tree Stage
      • 2.3.3.5. Exercise 5: Selecting processes using Limit and Tree Stages
    • 2.3.4. Compare and Find Similar
      • 2.3.4.1. Exercise 1: Comparison Tables
      • 2.3.4.2. Exercise 2: Find Similar and Nearness Settings
      • 2.3.4.3. Exercise 3: Search and Find Similar
      • 2.3.4.4. Exercise 4: Find Similar with Limits
      • 2.3.4.5. Exercise 5: Changing the Find Similar Nearness Settings
    • 2.3.5. Customize Charts and Data
      • 2.3.5.1. Exercise 1: Favorite records
      • 2.3.5.2. Exercise 2: Adding user-defined records
      • 2.3.5.3. Exercise 3: Selection with a Custom Subset
      • 2.3.5.4. Exercise 4: Record color in Browse tree and charts
    • 2.3.6. Select using advanced Chart Stage tools
      • 2.3.6.1. Exercise 1: Combining Filtering and Charting Tools
      • 2.3.6.2. Exercise 2: Plotting a combined property
      • 2.3.6.3. Exercise 3: Performance Index Finder
      • 2.3.6.4. Exercise 4: Selection with a Trade-off Plot
    • 2.3.7. Save and copy
      • 2.3.7.1. Exercise 1: Adding Comments and Saving a Project
      • 2.3.7.2. Exercise 2: Exporting Reports
      • 2.3.7.3. Exercise 3: Copying charts, data, and results lists
    • 2.3.8. Eco Audit tool
      • 2.3.8.1. Exercise 1: Product Definition
      • 2.3.8.2. Exercise 2: Compare Eco Audits
      • 2.3.8.3. Exercise 3: Saving and Exporting
    • 2.3.9. Synthesizer tool
      • 2.3.9.1. Exercise 1: Sandwich Panel Model
      • 2.3.9.2. Exercise 2: Comparing materials and process costs
      • 2.3.9.3. Exercise 3: Battery Designer
  • 2.4. Granta Selector Full Training Course
• 3. Materials data
  • 3.1. Types of data
    • 3.1.1. Core Materials
    • 3.1.2. Advanced Materials - Polymers
    • 3.1.3. Advanced Materials - Metals
    • 3.1.4. Advanced Materials - Electromagnetics
    • 3.1.5. Advanced Materials - Composites
    • 3.1.6. Advanced Materials - Aerospace
    • 3.1.7. Advanced Materials - Additive Manufacturing
    • 3.1.8. Advanced Materials - Eco Design
    • 3.1.9. Advanced Materials - High Temperature Alloys
    • 3.1.10. Advanced Materials - ESDU MMDH
  • 3.2. Databases, tables, and subsets
  • 3.3. Records and datasheets
    • 3.3.1. Estimated and Not-Applicable Attributes
    • 3.3.2. ProcessUniverse
  • 3.4. Checking out data bundles
    • 3.4.1. Borrowing a license to work offline
  • 3.5. Functional data
  • 3.6. Updates to material and process data
    • 3.6.1. Updating projects containing user-defined records
    • 3.6.2. Updating Eco Audit BoMs
  • 3.7. Adding user-defined records
• 4. Browsing
• 5. Searching
  • 5.1. Using search operators
• 6. Chart and selection stages
  • 6.1. Selection Projects
    • 6.1.1. Creating a selection project
      • 6.1.1.1. Creating a custom subset
      • 6.1.1.2. Using specific properties in a project
      • 6.1.1.3. Viewing and editing project settings
  • 6.2. Selection Stages
    • 6.2.1. Chart Stages
      • 6.2.1.1. Creating a chart stage
        • 6.2.1.1.1. Adding an Attribute expression
      • 6.2.1.2. Analyzing results in chart stage
        • 6.2.1.2.1. Plotting grouped records on a chart axis
      • 6.2.1.3. Annotating a chart
        • 6.2.1.3.1. Adding labels to a chart
        • 6.2.1.3.2. Family envelopes
        • 6.2.1.3.3. Adding a curve
        • 6.2.1.3.4. Adding an arrow
      • 6.2.1.4. Adding index lines and box selections
        • 6.2.1.4.1. Plotting a performance index on a chart
        • 6.2.1.4.2. Adding an index line to a chart
          • 6.2.1.4.2.1. Editing criteria for selecting materials with index lines
        • 6.2.1.4.3. Making a box selection
          • 6.2.1.4.3.1. Changing the selection criteria for the box selection
          • 6.2.1.4.3.2. Selecting cells on a Count chart
        • 6.2.1.4.4. Deciding between plotting an index line or a combined property
      • 6.2.1.5. Using Performance Indices
        • 6.2.1.5.1. Fixed geometry designs
      • 6.2.1.6. Creating advanced charts
        • 6.2.1.6.1. Trade-off curves
          • 6.2.1.6.1.1. Creating trade-off curves
          • 6.2.1.6.1.2. Material selection: graphical method
          • 6.2.1.6.1.3. Material selection: penalty functions
            • 6.2.1.6.1.3.1. Plotting a penalty function as a line
            • 6.2.1.6.1.3.2. Plotting a penalty function using a combined property
            • 6.2.1.6.1.3.3. Evaluating exchange constants
        • 6.2.1.6.2. Coupling lines
          • 6.2.1.6.2.1. Creating a coupling line chart
        • 6.2.1.6.3. Charts of multiple index lines
          • 6.2.1.6.3.1. Calculating slope of line from performance index
          • 6.2.1.6.3.2. Creating charts of multiple index lines
    • 6.2.2. Limit Stage
    • 6.2.3. Tree Stage
  • 6.3. Reviewing your results
  • 6.4. Comparison Tables
  • 6.5. Selection Reports
  • 6.6. Favorites
    • 6.6.1. Importing and exporting a favorites list
  • 6.7. Reference Records
• 7. Advanced selection methods
  • 7.1. Using Engineering Solver
    • 7.1.1. List of loading geometries
  • 7.2. Creating an Eco Audit project
    • 7.2.1. Comparing Eco Audit projects
    • 7.2.2. Adding user-defined material records to an Eco Audit project
    • 7.2.3. Defining a custom process for an Eco Audit project
    • 7.2.4. Defining a custom Joining and finishing process for an Eco Audit project
  • 7.3. Synthesizer
    • 7.3.1. Battery Designer model parameters
    • 7.3.2. Cellular Structures model parameters
    • 7.3.3. Composites (Simple Bounds) model parameters
    • 7.3.4. Controlled Thermal Expansion model parameters
    • 7.3.5. Part cost estimator model parameters
    • 7.3.6. Multi-layer Materials model parameters
    • 7.3.7. Sandwich Panel model parameters
    • 7.3.8. Viewing synthesized records on a chart
  • 7.4. Finding similar records
    • 7.4.1. Nearness settings
• 8. Exporting data
  • 8.1. Ansys Discovery
  • 8.2. Ansys Electronics Desktop
  • 8.3. Ansys Fluent
  • 8.4. Ansys Granta MI Pro
  • 8.5. Ansys LS-DYNA
  • 8.6. Ansys Mechanical APDL (Ansys Classic)
  • 8.7. Ansys Motor-CAD
  • 8.8. Ansys Sherlock
  • 8.9. Ansys Thermal Desktop
  • 8.10. Ansys Workbench
  • 8.11. ABAQUS
  • 8.12. Altair Inspire
  • 8.13. Creo Parametric (Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire)
  • 8.14. MatML
  • 8.15. Nastran
  • 8.16. SolidWorks
• 9. Settings
  • 9.1. Datasheet settings
  • 9.2. Chart settings
  • 9.3. Unit settings
  • 9.4. Number settings
  • 9.5. Label Settings
  • 9.6. Selection Settings
  • 9.7. Language Settings
  • 9.8. Privacy Settings
  • 9.9. Default application settings
• 10. Contact us