We are looking for the easiest way to make a single material library for all
Solid Edge users. Currently all Solid Edge design engineers have their own
Material Library with manually populated materials, but this is not an optimal
practice.
We are looking for a solution which will allow all Solid Edge users to use a
single material library managed through Teamcenter. Mapping all materials and
their properties to Teamcenter is not as easy as it sounds, especially when
they have to be available from Solid Edge Embedded Client. What is the best
practice for creating and managing such a library?
Solution
Use the Solid Edge Material Library to distribute a consistent set of
materials and associated physical properties to all designers. Physical
properties such as mass, volume, surface area, material, accuracy, and density
can be defined for use in the Teamcenter managed environment.
The best practice for implementing the exchange of the material, density, and
accuracy properties in a managed environment is to set the property as owned
by CAD, driving the design from CAD.
The Material.mtl can be placed on a shared network location and Solid Edge
Clients can set in the Options -> file location the path to this centralised
Material table.
Solid Edge physical properties such as mass, volume, and density can also be
mapped. The following example specifies a Teamcenter Item Type of Document:
Material: ItemRevision.GRM(IMAN_master_form,DocumentRevision Master).
SE_Material/master=cad/description="Material"
Mass : ItemRevision.GRM(IMAN_master_form,DocumentRevision Master).
SE_Mass /master=cad /description="Mass, Physical Properties"
Volume : ItemRevision.GRM(IMAN_master_form,DocumentRevision Master).
SE_Volume /master=cad /description="Volume, Physical Properties"
Density : ItemRevision.GRM(IMAN_master_form,DocumentRevision Master).
SE_Density /master=cad /description="Density, Physical Properties"
Notes and References
Hardware/Software Configuration
Platform: all
OS: n/a
OS Version: n/a
Product: SOLID_EDGE
Application: DOC_MANAGEMENT
Function: SEEC
Ref: 001-7918813