Add material database for all attributes

[Michael Kahle]

There are many moduls and dialogs, where you can set specific attributes to parts like density, color, hatch pattern, transparency, reflectance, pressfit, specific thermal and stress values, rendering texture, ...

It would be much better to collect them all into one central material database and change them for a part by assigning a material to it.

Just think of the many steps you can save when investigating the different consequences for changing from one sort of plastic to another one.

[rbrennen]

I think it might be good to add the capability for the user (or site) to create this materials database. The "same" material
from two different vendors often has different properties. This is especially true for polymers. By adding the capability, users, sites, or corporations can create their own material databases with property information on the materials available to them. In addition, CoCreate or third party material databases can be made available.


Ciao!

-Reid

[Louis]

Hello everyone,

Just a note to let you know that material assignment functionality (including user input of material information) that you describe is currently being added to the next version of nagaTool. Input is welcome.

[Michael Kahle]

http://www.cocreateusers.org/forum/showthread.php?threadid=2160

http://www.cocreateusers.org/forum/showthread.php?threadid=2230