The Properties menu enables you to create different materials by specifying material or element properties, such as type, the Young's Modulus, and Poisson's ratio. Once the material is created, you can apply those properties to the elements.
- Create Material Property
Enables you to define a material by specifying a name of the material, define whether isotropic, enter in values for Young's Modulus, Shear modulus, Poisson's ratio, Mass Density, and Thermal expansion coefficient.
- Write Material File
Saves the material specification so that it can be reused whenever necessary. The material file will be saved with the .mat extension.
- Load Material From File
Opens a material file to be used in your design or to be modified and saved for future use.
- Create Table
Enables you to create your material property by entering values for x and y. You can even graph the property.
- Define Element Properties
These features enable you to apply your material properties to their respective elements. Different types of elements that can be defined include Point, Line, Shell, and Volume. After you choose the part, the various properties are applied to its elements.