Material properties from the material database Material_Data are provided with the Ansys Polyflow package in the following directory:

where path is the directory in which Ansys Polyflow has been installed and represents the appropriate number for the release (e.g., 0 for polyflow24.2.0).

Within the Material_Data directory, you will find five subdirectories: Miscellaneous, Shell_Materials, Extrusion, BlowMolding, and BlowMolding_viscoelastic. Further information about these subdirectories is provided in the sections that follow.

All parameters in the material data files are provided in the SI system of units or MKS, while temperatures are provided in Kelvin. Upon selection and reading of such a material data file, the program asks whether you want to define another system of units; when applicable, a units conversion is performed in Ansys Polydata based on your specifications (see Converting to a New Unit System).

Note that Ansys Polydata will always open the material database from the installation directory when reading an old material data file. To access a material data file available in your current working directory, simply erase the directory path from the browser filter. You may also navigate via the browser.