Search Total Materia
An out-of-the-box Total Materia Connector is available and can be used to connect to existing Total Materia instances, if available, query for and retrieve material data directly into HyperMesh.
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Open the Explore dialog.
Note: Enabling the Total Materia repository requires the license feature Partner0236. When adding a new Total Materia repository, the host name is http://api.keytometals.com:8080/altair.
- Click Login.
- Enter text to search on in the Query field.
- Select Standard and Language from the lists.
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Click Simple query.
Materials matching the query criteria are returned.
- Expand the material name to expose its Mechanical and Physical Properties.
- Select the desired subgroup and continue expanding to reveal the conditions.
- Select the desired condition to show the Properties for that condition.
- Right-click on the desired condition to add its Properties for export.
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Repeat the steps above for all desired Mechanical and Physical
Properties.
Note: Adding the same property, for example Young’s Modulus, more than once results in overwriting the previous selection of that property.
- Right-click the Material and select Display Added Properties to show the selected properties.
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Select the desired Material Card from the available list.
A limited set of OptiStruct material cards are currently supported.
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Click Open.
A Material file, solver deck snippet, is generated and exported to the specified output directory and can now be imported into HyperMesh.