MATERIAL LIBRARY

Material library is a powerful tool to be used to store and manage materials. When clicking "Library" button on "Areas" tab, a new window will appear; it contains a tree of items, representing materials and folders of materials.

By default, there's a "Default materials" folder: it contains a set of materials distributed with the software and can't be modified.

"User materials" folder is where you can handle your materials thanks to the following commands:

Selected library material will be used as current material.

Store current material in library.

Update selected library material with current material.

Add a folder to library.



Add every project's material to library.

Remove selected library material or folder.

Load a material library.

Save selected library material or folder.

You can also drag&drop items inside the library tree.

Within the "Personal" library there's a "Default materials" folder, containing all the predefined materials by type and you can edit them like any other material in the library.


Materials can also be loaded and saved in .csv format; this is the file structure:

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Column 4

Column 5

Column 6

Column 7

Name

Conductivity x

Conductivity y

1 if isotropic, 0 if anisotropic

Type

Cavity type

Flow direction



Column 8

Column 9

Column 10

Column 11

Column 12

Column 13

Emissivity

Vapour diffusion

Volumetric mass

Dynamic viscosity

Gas conductivity

Specific thermal capacity



Column 14

Column 15

Column 16

Column 17

Column 18

Column 19

Red color

(min: 0; max: 1)

Green color

(min: 0; max: 1)

Blue color

(min: 0; max: 1)

Thickness

Layer thickness

Notes



Column 20

Column 21

Column 22

Jamb height

U factor surface

(default: -1)

Opacity

(min: 0; max: 1)