## Chapter 7: Materials

This panel lets you define the materials you want to use in your model.

Material List

  Lists the materials you have currently defined for your model. You can select materials in this list.

New

  Define a new material.

Modify

  Modify parameters for the selected material.

Copy

  Copy material component data from an existing material to either a new material or another existing material.

Delete

  Delete one or more materials from your model.

Review

  Review the parameters for the selected material in a browser window.

Library

  The default material library is standard.mlb. This contains all the material data provided by ANSYS, Inc.

  Click this button if you want to change the material library to some other material library you have obtained or created.

Load

  Load materials from your current material library.

Save

  Save the materials you have defined to a material library.

Current material library

  The current material library you have selected.

Update Library

  Update old material library files, so that they can be used with this version of Autodyn.

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