6 Replies Latest reply on Jan 20, 2015 3:46 PM by Jared Conway

Custom Solid Material - Parameters for Lead (Pb)

James Lupinek Jun 4, 2014 12:41 PM

Good Afternoon,

Just trying to create a user defined solid material for Lead (Pb). Wondering if anyone has the parameters handy?

Starting to look them up individually myself. It is proving difficult because Google thinks I'm reffering to "someone in the lead" instead of the material "Lead (Pb)".

Thanks,

James

Re: Custom Solid Material - Parameters for Lead (Pb)

James Lupinek Jun 4, 2014 12:49 PM (in response to James Lupinek)

I just found this http://www.webelements.com/lead/physics.html

Seems to be a good start, not sure if it has everything Solidworks needs yet.
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  Jared Conway Jun 4, 2014 2:54 PM (in response to James Lupinek)
  
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    James Lupinek Jan 20, 2015 10:47 AM (in response to Jared Conway)
    
    Hey Jared,
    
    Hate to resurrect an old topic but I recently signed up for the premium membership at matweb. However it seems the only file type it is exporting for me is .sldmat files. Which work perfectly for materials applied within standard solidworks. But the "Engineering Database" from which materials are pulled within flow analysis wants to see .xml files when you select import. Anything I am doing wrong? How can I get these into flow?
    
    I have also tried the import materials from model feature to no avail. It brings over the name and appearance with none of the data. So I immediately get a 0 density error and a no thermal conductivity error.
    
    Thanks,
    James
    
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      Jared Conway Jan 20, 2015 11:15 AM (in response to James Lupinek)
      
      you're right, it only creates sldmat files, you would need to create the materials manually in flow simulation
      
      import from model should work as long as all the properties for flow are there. IE, that density, thermal conductivity...etc are there.
      
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        James Lupinek Jan 20, 2015 11:42 AM (in response to Jared Conway)
        
        Thank you for the quick reply.
        
        Unfortunately I signed up for the service thinking it was going to prevent me from having to create everything manually. So I currently have no use for the premium membership. It's hard to believe there is no easy way for me to put a material into flow without creating it myself.
        
        Thanks for the help.
        
        -James-
        
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        Jared Conway Jan 20, 2015 3:46 PM (in response to James Lupinek)
        
        maybe you could code something and make yourself a million bucks!
        
        you could probably contact matweb and get a refund, but my guess is that the cost is probably reasonable enough that you'll get enough use out of it to justify the cost (even for solidworks simulation)
        
        if you apply them in solidworks and then import them into flow, you may be able to add them to flow database. haven't tried this in a long time but it might be possible. but it does require the solidworks material to have the right properties.
        
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