Importing a study-specific material grade into a personal database

If you edit the properties of a material using the advanced options of the Process Settings Wizard, the edited material is only available in the current study. If you want to make it available to all future studies, you need to import the material into a personal database as described below.

1. Ensure that you saved the study containing the edited material.
2. If you do not have a Thermoplastics material personal database, create one before you proceed.
3. Click (Tools tab > Edit Personal Database).
4. In the Open dialog, browse to and select your personal material database (*.udb), and then click Open.
5. Click Databases >>.
6. Click Open.
7. Browse to and select the study containing the edited material, and then click Open.
   Tip: By default, the Files of type option is set to UDB Files (*.21000.udb). To display study (*.sdy) files for selection, change the Files of type option to All Files (*.*).
8. Select the edited material in the Database pane of the dialog, and click Copy. The edited material appears in the Destination pane.
9. Click OK.