Add A Material In Solidworks

If you are behind a firewall or need it assistance with modifying your solidworks installation you can download materials updates from the web.

Add a material in solidworks.

In a part document right click material in the featuremanager design tree. You assign material to the part by picking a material from a material library. Provide feedback on this topic. Solidworks welcomes your feedback concerning.

Search applying a material in the solidworks knowledge base. There is an easy trick when working with a multi body part file to assign each body as a different material designation. When creating part files in solidworks by default the entire part is assigned one material. To affect several bodies select them before right clicking.

Since the solidworks 2014 release you are able to download additional materials for your solidworks simulation material database from the matereality website which has a much broader range of advanced material properties that have been physically tested. Right click and select copy or press ctrl c to copy the material to your paste buffer. Materials in solidworks have two sets of properties visual and physical mechanical. Simulationxpress must know the elastic properties of the material of the part.

Updating the materials database from the web. In the material tree select a category in a custom library. Solidworks comes with a large variety of material options. In the featuremanager design tree right click the part component and select.

However in some cases the specific material for your project may not be listed. The preferred method to update the database is from the material dialog box in solidworks. Editing a custom material. The response of a part depends on the material assigned to the part.

As shown in figure 1 you can access additional materials using the solidworks materials web portal matereality on the bottom left of the. In the material tree select the material on which to base the custom material. Fortunately is it is easy to add new materials by either creating your own or by importing a database somebody else has created. With a multi body part file created we can see that the material specified in the feature tree is for the entire part.

In a part document right click material in the featuremanager design tree and select edit material. Adding sustainability data to a custom material.