1) Start a new part 2) You Click Edit material 3) Pick a material (any) 4) Click [teal]"Create/Edit Material"[/teal] button below the material list 5) A new menu pops up - Pick the drop down and select [teal]"<New Material Database>"[/teal] 6) Give a name that you want your Database to be (not like a material name just a DB name e.g. - [teal]"Scott's DB of material"[/teal] 7) Now give it a Material Classification - e.g. Steel 8) Then a material name - e.g. 1020 Steel 9) You can give it Visual properties 10) Then Physical properties 11) And Finally crosshatch info. 12) Click OK and your new DB comes up.
If you go to [blue]C:\Program Files\Solidworks\Lang\English\sldmaterials[/blue] and open in notepad [teal]"Solidworks Materials.sldmat"[/teal] - you can copy that data out and paste it into your the DB you just made. [red]DO NOT EDIT THE ORIGINAL SW DB!![/red] Once you change it or if you messed it up, then the only way to fix it is to reinstall SW. That's why you copy the data and paste into your new DB. Change it there.
