Materials Edit

Material

Materials Edit
Menu location
Materials → Edit... Model → Materials → Material editor
Workbenches
Material, FEM
Default shortcut
None
Introduced in version
1.0
See also
FEM MaterialEditor

Description

The Materials Edit tool provides access to the new material editor implemented as part of the Material handling system improvements made for FreeCAD 1.0. The new materials system can be used in multiple workbenches, also for appearance properties.

Usage

1. The new material editor can currently be accessed by either:
   • Material Workbench:
     • The Edit... button.
     • The menu Materials → Edit entry.
   • FEM Workbench:
     • The Material editor button.
     • The menu Model → Materials → Material editor entry.
   • View → Material... → Launch editor menu option or Material... → Launch editor context menu option in any workbench after selecting a feature in the tree view.
2. Select a material from the multilevel list on the left. The following categories are available:
   • Favorites
   • Recent
   • System
     • Appearance
     • Fluid
     • Machining
     • Patterns
     • Standard
     • Test
   • User
3. Use the three tabs on the right side of the editor to edit the properties of the selected material:
   • General:
     • Name
     • Author
     • License
     • Parent
     • Source URL
     • Source Reference
     • Tags
     • Description
   • Physical - various physical properties
   • Appearance:
     • Basic Rendering:
       • Ambient Color
       • Diffuse Color
       • Emissive Color
       • Shininess
       • Specular Color
       • Transparency
4. Press the New button to create a new material with empty properties, Inherit New to create a new material with properties copied from the selected material or * to add a material to favorites.
5. Press the OK button to confirm, Save to save the changes or Cancel to cancel them.

Material

FEM

• FEM Analysis

• Materials: Solid, Fluid, Nonlinear mechanical, Reinforced (concrete); Material editor

• Element geometry: Beam (1D), Beam rotation (1D), Shell (2D), Fluid flow (1D)

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Constraints

• Electromagnetic: Electrostatic potential, Current density, Magnetization

• Fluid: Initial flow velocity, Initial pressure, Flow velocity

• Geometrical: Plane rotation, Section print, Transform

• Mechanical: Fixed, Displacement, Contact, Tie, Spring, Force, Pressure, Centrif, Self weight

• Thermal: Initial temperature, Heat flux, Temperature, Body heat source

• Overwrite Constants: Constant vacuum permittivity

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• Mesh: Mesh Netgen, Mesh GMSH, Mesh boundary layer, Mesh region, Mesh group, Nodes set, Mesh to mesh

• Solve: CalculiX Standard, Elmer, Mystran, Z88; Equations: Deformation, Elasticity, Electrostatic, Electricforce, Magnetodynamic, Magnetodynamic 2D, Flow, Flux, Heat; Solver: Solver control, Solver run

• Results: Purge, Show; Postprocessing: Apply changes, Pipeline from result, Warp filter, Scalar clip filter, Function cut filter, Region clip filter, Contours filter, Line clip filter, Stress linearization plot, Data at point clip filter, Filter function plane, Filter function sphere, Filter function cylinder, Filter function box

• Utilities: Clipping plane, Remove clipping planes, Open FEM examples; Mesh clear, Mesh display info

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• Additional: Preferences; FEM Install, FEM Mesh, FEM Solver, FEM CalculiX, FEM Concrete; FEM Element Types

User documentation

• Getting started
• Installation: Download, Windows, Linux, Mac, Additional components, Docker, AppImage, Ubuntu Snap
• Basics: About FreeCAD, Interface, Mouse navigation, Selection methods, Object name, Preferences, Workbenches, Document structure, Properties, Help FreeCAD, Donate

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• Help: Tutorials, Video tutorials
• Workbenches: Std Base, Assembly, BIM, CAM, Draft, FEM, Inspection, Material, Mesh, OpenSCAD, Part, PartDesign, Points, Reverse Engineering, Robot, Sketcher, Spreadsheet, Surface, TechDraw, Test Framework

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• Addons: Addon Manager, External workbenches, Scripting and macros

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• Hubs: User hub, Power users hub, Developer hub