Material Styles Resources

Hi

As part of a current project, I need to create several custom material styles in Inventor.

I'm struggling to find resources that show the properties Inventor needs (in the Style and Standards Editor).

Does anyone know of a resource where I can obtain the properties for various materials? I did find 'matweb.com' but this doesn't really help for many of the properties needed.

what type of materials are we talking about here? So you are looking for reflective/opacity/diffuse settings?

Those would be useful Matt, but I'm more concerned with the material properties - poisson's ratio, thermal conductivity, linear expansion and so on.

I want to start by adding 'European Beech' as a material, but there will be others.

Matweb.com is a great site for this. But Inventor only needs density for mass calculation everything else is only if you need to run a dynamic sim or strees study on your part. If you only need it for modeling and weight, forget everything else except density and color.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=european+beech+material+properties

http://www.matbase.com/material/wood/class5-5-years/european-beech/properties

sorry paul i misunderstood the question. I thought you were worried about visual appearance.

While we are at it for visual styles, check out this blog post to learn how to orient texture along a plane for visual accuracy. http://rand.com/imaginit/1/rss/viewitem.asp?feedid=BLOGS_MFG_ALL&guid=573

Mark - http://lmgtfy.com/?q=european+beech+material+properties

Gee Mark, wish I'd thought of that!

I found that my searches didn't produce the properties Inventor asks for. As you will see from my first post, I did find matweb, and it is very good, but I find it lacks many of the properties Inventor needs.

Matt - sorry paul i misunderstood the question. I thought you were worried about visual appearance.

Thats quite ok Matt, think nothing of it.

Thank you both for your help. I just wondered if there was some resource online (or otherwise) that supplied this info in an Inventor friendly format. Guess I'll just have to wing it.

The second I posted the previous reply, I decided to take another look at Mark's google link.

The second entry looks promising:

http://www.matbase.com/material/wood/class5-5-years/european-beech/properties

That's not a site that showed up on my search.