In cases where you are planning to solve several problems that use the same material, you can define the material properties for the first such problem and then reuse them in the other problems. This saves you time, because you will not need to repeat the definition of the same properties for each subsequent problem.

To save your material property definitions to a file, select the Save in a Material Data File item in the Material data menu.

  Save in a Material Data File

Ansys Polydata will ask you for the name of the file where the data are to be saved.

To read the material property definitions into a later Ansys Polydata session, select the Read an Old Material Data File item in the Material data menu.

  Read an Old Material Data File

Ansys Polydata will ask you for the name of the file where the material data are stored, and then read the material property definitions from the specified file. You can then modify them within Ansys Polydata, if necessary.