[femm] Re: Various

[Dave Squires <djsquires@xxxxxxxx>]

David Meeker wrote:

>
> This isn't a bug--it just works a little bit differently than the way that you
> are thinking about it. The materials library is meant to be just a repository
> for materials that are commonly used. You shouldn't modify library entries
> themselves, unless you are entering a new material into the library or
> something. When you are in the Materials Library and press the "Add selected
> material to model" button, it makes a copy of the library entry and puts it in
> the list of materials properties being used your specific model. To change the
> properties employed in solving the model, you change the properties of the
> _copy_ of the library entry, via the Properties|Materials selection off of the
> main menu. The reason for doing it this way is that I don't want it to mess
> around with library entries (which I will presumably use over and over in
> future models) each time I want to change the properties for a specific
> problem.

OK, interesting. I will give that a try. I think I did try that too.
I will double check. Maybe I was going too fast and did not
notice if that way was working correctly.

Thanks,
Dave Squires