{"id":164281,"date":"2023-02-06T14:42:20","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T14:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/how-to-perform-a-material-sweep\/"},"modified":"2023-07-31T12:36:38","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T12:36:38","slug":"how-to-perform-a-material-sweep","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/how-to-perform-a-material-sweep\/","title":{"rendered":"How to perform a material sweep?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Go to Maxwell 2D\/3D > Design Properties and create 2 new parameters: 1) Select Add Array… to create a material array. Name: MaterialArray, Append Rows.. > 3 > OK. On the Data fields, type “steel_1008”, “steel_1010”, “iron”, and accept with OK. 2) Select Add… to create an array index. Name: MaterialIndex, type: ArrayIndexVariable, Associate array variable: MaterialArray, Value: 0. Accept with OK. Then select the object which material you want to change, and in the properties window > Material, type ‘MaterialArray[MaterialIndex]’. On field ‘Evaluated Value’ you will see now “steel_1008”. Finally create a parametric sweep. Right-click on Optimetrics > Add > Parametric. Click Add and select MaterialIndex from the drop-down menu. Select linear step, Start:0, Stop: 2, Step: 1 > Add > OK. On tab Options, activate ‘Copy geometrically equivalent meshes’. Run ParametricSetup1 and you will have results with all the selected materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-164281","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-19-2","topic-tag-electric-machines","topic-tag-electromagnetics-electronics","topic-tag-low-frequency-electromagnetics","topic-tag-materials","topic-tag-maxwell","topic-tag-modeler"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t