{"id":285493,"date":"2023-05-24T13:02:48","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T13:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/duplicate-the-material-data-and-save-it-as-a-new-material\/"},"modified":"2023-06-13T08:14:27","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T08:14:27","slug":"duplicate-the-material-data-and-save-it-as-a-new-material","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/duplicate-the-material-data-and-save-it-as-a-new-material\/","title":{"rendered":"Duplicate the material data and save it as a new material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To whom it may concern<\/p>\n<p>Hi, I am trying to build an optimized grating structure. The idea is that based on the standrad focal grating coupler, I would like to add a photonic crystal structure before the grating coupler as you can see in the attached screenshot.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have modified the mesh order so that, for additional photonic crystal the mesh order is higher than that of the silicon grating coupler.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In order to see it better, I would like to make them appear in different colours<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/24-05-2023-1684933349-Forum.JPG\" alt=\"\">.<\/p>\n<p>For example, the blue part is still silicon while the grey part is filled up with air.<\/p>\n<p>However, I cannot just modify the colour of the material inside the photonic crystal. If I change the colour of the silicon in the library, the whole silicon structure would change at the same time. So I will not be able to see the difference between the normal grating coupler and the additional photonic crystal.<\/p>\n<p>Is there a way to duplicate the silicon data and saved it as a new material with a different colour? If so, how can I do it?<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for the help.<\/p>\n<p>Yours sincerely<\/p>\n<p>Adam<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-285493","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_author_ip":["23.217.200.46"]," _bbp_last_reply_id":["0"]," _bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["1185"],"_bbp_subscription":["2592"],"_edit_lock":["1686643978:76714"],"_edit_last":["76714"],"_yoast_wpseo_content_score":["90"],"_yoast_wpseo_estimated-reading-time-minutes":[""],"_yoast_wpseo_wordproof_timestamp":[""],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["285493"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27833"],"_bbp_engagement":["2592","279476"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["1"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["285592"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["285592"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2023-05-24 22:27:46"]},"test":"pl1n16soton-ac-uk"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/285493","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\/285493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}