Exporting multiple material datasheets from Ansys Granta EduPack

Hiba

I would like to export multiple materials at once, including their properties (density, thermal conductivity, temperature limits, etc.), in a usable format (Excel, CSV, or text).
However, so far I’ve only found the option to copy one datasheet at a time.
Is there any built-in method or tool to batch export results from a selection or a chart?
Thank you very much for your help!

Erik Kostson

@Geoff Lunn and @James Derrick

Can you help here perhaps?

James Derrick

Hello All,

I think you might have more luck on the Ansys Learning Forum over on the Ansys Innovation Space, if only because this forum is specifically for scripting questions and I am not aware of any developer tools that work with Granta EduPack at this time. However, it may well be Erik over there too!

I can help with exporting data from Granta MI using the scripting toolkit, but not EduPack.

Susannah Cooke

Hi! As James said, the Ansys Learning Forum is generally the better place to ask questions about Ansys software rather than about scripting tools specifically, but since I've seen your question and happen to know the answer, I'll answer it here anyway.

I'm afraid if you're exporting to the formats you've mentioned, Granta EduPack can only export one record at a time. This is also mostly true even when exporting to simulation tools. However, in case this is useful, I will mention that if you need to export materials data to Ansys structural simulation tools such as Ansys Mechanical through Ansys Workbench, there is an alternative method where you can open EduPack as a component within Workbench. If you then perform a materials selection there, you can carry the results across to other components in Workbench and as such bring multiple materials into a Mechanical simulation at once.

I will also note that, if you are using Ansys Mechanical or Ansys Discovery through a university (Academic) license, they may come with a pre-included set of materials called 'Granta Materials Data for Simulation'. These same materials are included as a subset in all Level 3 Granta EduPack databases - if you were to do a selection on this subset, you could then find those exact materials in the Materials Data for Simulation set within other Ansys tools.

I hope some of that is helpful to you!