The first release of Autodesk Advanced Material Exchange is a limited scope release. We have intentionally limited the product functionality with the hope that you will provide feedback about the product's direction moving forward.
Current limitations:
- Only injection molded parts are supported. Compression molding is not supported at this time.
- Structural assemblies are not supported inside Advanced Material Exchange, only single parts or instances are supported. If your structural model contains an assembly with multiple parts, you will be prompted to select the individual part you wish to import.
- Elastic-plastic material nonlinearity is supported, other types of material nonlinearity are not supported.
- 3D and shell element types are supported. Dual Domain (Moldflow) elements are not supported. See the Initial Requirements page for a list of supported element types.
- We support solid-to-solid and shell-to-shell (Mid-plane-to-shell) mapping.
- Non-linear material data entry is only allowed for the standard test angles of 0, 90, and 45 degrees.
- Non-linear material data must have between 15 and 50 entries.
- Stress-strain data entry must be for a single temperature.
- At least one data point on the non-linear stress-strain curve must lie in the material's elastic region.
- Structural models that contain shell elements may only have five section points through the thickness.
- Saving multiple Advanced Material Exchange projects in the same directory is not supported.
- Predicting rupture in the material may be difficult due to known convergence issues for large models.