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[bouchardak]

I am having trouble changing my material within the model module in ANSYS 2019 R2 academic after importing geometry as a STEP file. When I select the material assignment arrow to change the material from structural steel; the menu appears but does not load any content so I cannot change the material.

[Sandeep Medikonda]

Have you tried adding it in Engineering Data, updating and then trying to change it? Do the newly added materials appear under Materials of the Mechanical Structure tree?

If not, please post snapshots that will help us better understand what is going on.

[bouchardak]

I previously added the materials to engineering data and the materials do appear under materials in the mechanical structure tree. I only run into problems when trying to change the material from structural steel because the material menu won't load as can be seen in the image below.

[Sandeep Medikonda]

Can you try resetting the %appdata% and see if it helps?
See Here on how you can do that.

In your case, you should rename the folder 194 to 194.old

[Rohith Patchigolla]

Hello, 

In Mechanical, could you please go to Options and change the below setting from "Windows" to "None" to see if this fixes the issue

[bouchardak]

Changing the UI option from "Windows" to "none" solved my problem! Thank you to everyone who helped me to fix this problem!

[Chika40]

Hello rgpatchi,
Thanks for your comment. It solved the problem.

[indigo14]

Thank you rgpatchi, that solved my problem with 2020 R2.

[Uvasri]

Where I can Find the options .Can You explain in detail

[Joker254]

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It is in FILE menu listed in the blue column.

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[aleaha05]

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Hello,

I am having trouble getting my material menu to show. I’m trying to select my other material but the drop down button isn’t showing. Both of the materials are showing in my materials tab. Can you please help solve this issue.

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[tulger1]

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Hello ANSYS community, I asked under this topic because it seem the similar problem, empt screen. But the difference is I use ANSYS MAPDL.

I tried micro plane modellin in ANSYS 21 R2. When entered the code as in the screen snipped below, model cannot be loaded. I check the material table and it shows empty material data.

I added by hand but it reads as the default input (TB,MPLANE,1,,,ORTH ) which I don want. I want the TB,MPLANE,1,,,DPC model. How can I fix or work around this problem? Thanks for any suggestion.

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[Ajiboye David]

 

I am also having trouble changing my material within the model module in ANSYS 2022 R1 student after importing geometry as a STEP file. When I select the material assignment arrow to change the material from structural steel; the menu appears but does not load any content so I cannot change the material.

 

[Luisa Hornung]

I have a smiliar issue. I want to change the Material but clicking the material assignment arrow, nothing happens at all. Sometimes it is the same with Connections or Boundaries. There is just nothing happening when clicking the button. This mainly appears when openming an existing model. Can somebody help me?

[Mike Choiniere]

I am having the same problem.

[Eilidh Pearce]

I am also having this issue, has it been fixed for anyone?

[Luisa Hornung]

I exportet the Mechanical Model as an .mechdat and after restarting Ansys Workbench I pulled the file into the workspace and it worked fine. I could edit everything without any problems.

[Mike Choiniere]

I was able to remedy by going to Options -> Mechanical -> UI Options and selecting ‘None’ rather than the Windows default under Engineering Data – Mechanical View. Not sure if it’s a glitch or just my setup but wanted to share in case anyone else was having trouble with this version. I did recently update to Windows 11, so that could be something.

[Uchenna Ubeh]

Hello,

I ran into this thread and am currently having the same problem with Ansys 2023 Student version.

After creating basic geometry in SpaceClaim, I opened the model panel to change my material from Geometry. I did not find the detailed tray where materials can be changed. I am unsure if I am doing anything wrong now since I am a new user of  Ansys. I have attached images to illustrate my point further. I will greatly appreciate any help. Thank you!