{"id":28298,"date":"2017-10-29T13:46:25","date_gmt":"2017-10-29T13:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/engineering-data-making-the-list-longer-than-structural-steel\/"},"modified":"2017-10-29T13:46:25","modified_gmt":"2017-10-29T13:46:25","slug":"engineering-data-making-the-list-longer-than-structural-steel","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/engineering-data-making-the-list-longer-than-structural-steel\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineering Data: Making the list longer than Structural Steel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I use Aluminum about as often as Structural Steel in my models and got tired of the extra steps needed to add Aluminum to each new model I started, so I looked for a way to configure ANSYS Workbench so that there was more than one material ready to choose from in Mechanical. AIM did a nice job providing a list of materials in its installation.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Follow the configuration steps one time after installing ANSYS and you will have a list on each new project block that includes Engineering Data.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Open Engineering Data<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Press the Engineering Data Sources Button to show the full list of materials in the database and navigate to the material you want to be in every new model. In the example below, I am adding Titanium Alloy.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Right click on that material and select Add to Favorites<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6032193\/uploads\/attachments\/3e825b35-df61-45f5-9693-a81101684b62\/2537408d-5d32-41b4-8225-a81b00e1b864_materials-add-to-favorites.jpg?width=690&amp;upscale=false\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Click on Favorites, then for that material, click the + sign to get the Book icon, and check column D.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6032193\/uploads\/attachments\/3e825b35-df61-45f5-9693-a81101684b62\/f49fcc88-aa0c-4a11-bf02-a81b010e1d7a_materials-add-and-check.jpg?width=690&amp;upscale=false\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>You can see I have done the same thing for Magnesium and Aluminum.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Now in Mechanical, when you start a new system, there will be a list of four materials!<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6032193\/uploads\/attachments\/3e825b35-df61-45f5-9693-a81101684b62\/81a255f4-004e-4eaa-9502-a81b00e2c658_materials-choice.jpg?width=690&amp;upscale=false\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-28298","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_old_topic_id":["464"],"_bbp_old_topic_author_name_id":["Anonymous"],"_bbp_old_is_topic_anonymous_id":["false"],"_bbp_old_closed_status_id":["publish"],"_bbp_author_ip":[null],"_bbp_old_sticky_status_id":["normal"],"_bbp_likes_count":["0","0","0","0","0"],"_btv_view_count":["6518"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["28298"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_engagement":["240","166411","181717"],"_bbp_voice_count":["3"],"_bbp_reply_count":["4"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["128442"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["128442"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2020-09-29 17:18:53"]},"test":"peteroznewman"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/28298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/28298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}