Can I change material properties in SpaceClaim through Scripting?

Nikos Kallitsis
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How can I access and change the properties of a Material assigned to a body in the Tree?

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  • Nikos Kallitsis
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    To access the body's material:

    b = GetRootPart().Bodies[0]
    
mat = b.Material

    Assume we want to change/set the Elastic Modulus to a value of 15. The user should first set the property and assign it to the Material:

    matId = SpaceClaim.Api.V20.MaterialPropertyId
    
prop = SpaceClaim.Api.V20.MaterialProperty(matId.ElasticModulus,"Elastic Modulus",15,None)
    
mat.SetProperty(prop)

    Another option would be to access the material object directly and setting the property from there. Post on how to access the material object here. After having defined the local_mat object, the above snippet's last line should be changed to:

    local_mat.SetProperty(prop)

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