### 2.1.22. Material Databank

It is possible to build a Material Databank which can be used in different projects. The databank can also be saved on a intranet drive for sharing to other ACP users.

The structure of the Material Databank is exactly the same as in the model. For more information, see Material Data. The Databank is stored as .acpMcd and it can be managed through the context menu:

Figure : Material Databank

The units of the Databank and the model can be different. Use Copy and Paste to transfer a material from one to the other; values of the materials are converted automatically to the correct unit system.

A default Material Databank is installed with ACP: `ANSYS_INSTALL_DIR`\v182\ACP\databases.

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