Selecting a Plastic Injection Material

You can choose the plastic injection material for your simulation from a library of over 3000 materials.


Before you begin: The material briefcase DS-InjectionMolding.3dxml must be imported into your database before you can select any of its materials. For more information about importing a material briefcase, see Importing a Default Set of Materials.
  1. From the Setup section of the action bar, click Material Palette .
    The Material Palette opens and displays a set of materials that satisfy the filtering criteria defined in the 6WTags on the left side of the screen. All plastic injection materials include a (P) near the beginning of their name.
  2. Open the Filter options, and select a Classification of plastic materials to filter the list down to a single category of plastic materials.
  3. Select a material from the list, and drag it to your model.
  4. Click the model, and select from the context toolbar that appears.