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Ensure the validity and quality of critical materials property data used in your Aerospace product design and analysis Nuclear & Energy Deploy corporate materials knowledge and reference data throughout your CAD and FEA/CAE communities, in a controlled and secure manner Industrial & Consumer Equipment Enable designers and analysts to get materials property data directly within Automotive & their engineering application, without interrupting their workfl ow Transportation

Embed product analytics and materials selection into your preferred CAD, Electronics CAE, or other PLM system

Medical Devices Why is materials support for CAD, CAE, and PLM important?

For most engineering designers or analysts, Computer Aided Design (CAD), Computer Solution features Aided Engineering (CAE), or other Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software are essential tools. Substantial investments of money and time are made in implementing A system to ensure a and using these systems. Often, this software relies on materials data—for example, single, controlled, easy- density or price for CAD analyses, or models describing mechanical properties for use to-access source of in- house materials data in simulation. It can be diffi cult to fi nd the right data: it is rarely available from a single, convenient source. So CAD and CAE users often waste time looking for data or, worse An unrivalled catalog of still, use data that may be incorrect, inconsistent, or out-of-date. materials reference data

Tools to access all of Similarly, materials engineering teams invest effort and resources in generating this data and apply it accurate, approved materials data. But they often lack an effective, effi cient means to in analysis within your deploy this data to the design teams that need it. familiar CAD, FEA, or CAE software And there is another reason for wishing to integrate materials data with design. Doing so can enable valuable decision support tools—for example, to identify which design route would minimize environmental impact or to select materials to optimize cost.

Granta enables organizations to manage their corporate materials data and to access it from within standard engineering software. The picture shows materials data, managed by GRANTA MI, accessed from within the /CAE system. Granta’s solution

A single source for your materials data

GRANTA MI™ enables engineering enterprises to capture all of their proprietary materials data in a single, controlled, secure materials information resource. Integrated tools allow materials experts to analyze this data and publish approved information for use in design. You can also access Granta’s comprehensive library of materials property and process data, including: aerospace alloy and composite data (e.g., MMPDS alloys, CMH-17 Granta partners composites); metals data (ASME BPV code, StahlDat steels); plastics data (CAMPUS); Granta works with leading medical materials databases; and Granta’s own MaterialUniverse, which offers technical, providers of engineering environmental, and economic data in support of materials selection and substitution. software to ensure integration of materials information with engineering Export to CAD, CAE, and PLM design and analysis:

The data in your corporate GRANTA MI database can be accessed through an intuitive web-browser interface and exported in the right formats for software like Abaqus®, ANSYS®, CATIA®, Creo Elements/Pro®, ®, Patran®, and Pro/ENGINEER®. Autodesk Dassault Systèmes / Full integration with CAD, CAE, and PLM

Now it’s even easier to access materials reference data and approved corporate materials Parametric Technology information. GRANTA MI:Materials Gateway lets you browse, search, and use data in a Corporation (PTC) GRANTA MI database directly within CAD, CAE, PLM or other software. MI:Materials Siemens PLM Software Gateway is available for software including Abaqus/CAE®, Pro/ENGINEER ®, NX™, ANSYS® Workbench™, and Autodesk ® Inventor ®. The result is effi cient, error-free integration of materials data into the workfl ow of designers and analysts.

Enabling product analysis and materials selection

As well as providing vital data to support the existing analysis capabilities of CAD, CAE, and PLM, MI:Materials Gateway enables a new generation of materials-related software applications within these systems. For example, Eco Materials Adviser is a tool embedded within the Autodesk Inventor software that combines Granta materials data with data from an Inventor model to provide a quick estimate of the eco impact of a design.

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Accessing GRANTA MI materials data from within the Pro/ENGINEER software.

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