What is the Autodesk Material Library?

The Autodesk Material library is a library that is shared between Autodesk products and that is installed silently on your computer. These components may already be installed if one of these applications is already installed on your computer. If you uninstall or remove a library, it will no longer be available to any of the products.

There are 2 different parts to the Autodesk Material Library which are installed silently with Autodesk Simulation Moldflow products:

• Autodesk Material Library: This is the library containing the material appearances used for Realistic Appearance in color styles. This component is installed by default and required for full visual style and color style functionality. It is recommended you do not uninstall this component unless you are also uninstalling all Autodesk products that require this library.
• Autodesk Material Library Base Resolution Image: This component is installed by default and is required for material library functionality. It is recommended you do not uninstall this component unless you are also uninstalling all Autodesk products that require this library.

The default install location for the Autodesk Material Libraries is a common files folder and cannot be changed. If you uninstall or delete an Autodesk Material Library you must perform the following to reinstall and regain visual style and color style functionality:

From the installer media, browse to and run: \Support\ADSKMaterials\2012\CM\ProteinMaterials.msi

If you uninstall or delete the Autodesk Material Library Base Resolution Image Library you must perform the following to reinstall:

From the installer media, browse to and run: \Support\ADSKMaterials\2012\ILB\BaseImageLibrary.msi