Materials manager

The Materialsmanager is a tool that provides for control of material defined in the project. The Materials manager provides for creating, editing, deleting, and saving of materials.

The manager itself uses the same "manager philosophy" as other SCIA Engineer managers do. It contains control buttons for the standard manager operations:

[New]	It creates a new material.
[Edit]	It opens an editing dialogue where the material’s properties may be changed.
[Copy]	This function creates a copy of the selected material.
[Change]	It enables the user to replace an existing material with a new one. All the members in the project that ware made of the original material are now made of the new one.
[Delete]	It removes the selected material from the project database. It is not possible to delete material that is used anywhere in the structure.
[Undo] / [Redo]	It performs an Undo or Redo operation.
;[Text Output]	;It opens a small document window with a table that summarises properties of selected materials.
[Read from system database]	It reads predefined materials from system database.
[Read from user database]	It reads material types that the user has saved into his/her external database.
[Save to user database]	It saves selected material types into the user’s external database.

In order to open the Materials manager use:

• either menu function Tools > Materials,

• or tree menu function Tools > Materials,

• or button Materials () on toolbar Project.

Note: The Materials manager can also be opened from various property dialogues that contain item Material. Such an item contains a button to open the Materials manager.