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Altair Material Data Center
Altair Material Data Center (AMDC) provides accurate multi-domain material properties to enable the creation of sustainable, efficient, and lightweight designs.
Search Materials
Search a material or a list of materials using quick search, advanced search or scatter plots.
Advanced Search
Advanced Search allows you to build a search query by combining multiple search criteria. Use filters to find properties and define value ranges. You can also add filters such as availability of plots, certifications or regional availability to quickly find relevant materials.
Delete Advanced Search
Remove a criteria that is no longer needed.

Welcome
What's New
Here’s a quick look at the latest features available with Altair One.
Overview
Explore collaborative access to simulation and data analytics technology plus scalable High Performance Computing (HPC) and cloud resources, all in one place with Altair One.
Tutorials
View a video to learn about the latest features of Altair One.
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HPC Workflows in Altair One
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Administrator Dashboard
Administrator Dashboard portal providing real-time license usage for Altair managed license subscriptions.
Account Administration
Altair Dashboard is an administrative portal providing real-time license usage for Altair managed license subscriptions.
Altair Marketplace
Altair Marketplace is a digital catalogue that you can use to find, try out, and buy Altair's and Altair Partner simulation applications and services.
Altair Material Data Center
Altair Material Data Center (AMDC) provides accurate multi-domain material properties to enable the creation of sustainable, efficient, and lightweight designs.
- Launch AMDC
  Launch the application to access the Altair material data. You can customize and launch the application from Favorite Apps, on the Altair One Home page.
- AMDC Access and License
  Upgrade your Altair Material Data Center access to Explorer and ExplorerPlus to unlock all material data and the application features.
- Ziegler PEM Material Database
- Integrated Desktop Applications
  Get instant access to an exhaustive database with thousands of simulation ready materials directly from within Altair desktop applications! This seamless integration automatically lists materials suitable for the application and lets users look up, search, compare and download CAE-ready material cards directly in the software.
- Whats New
  Here’s a quick look at the latest features available with Altair Material Data Center.
- Tutorials
  Discover the features of AMDC with step by step tutorials and videos.
- Search Materials
  Search a material or a list of materials using quick search, advanced search or scatter plots.
  - Quick Search
    Search for a material using a string value.
  - Advanced Search
    Advanced Search allows you to build a search query by combining multiple search criteria. Use filters to find properties and define value ranges. You can also add filters such as availability of plots, certifications or regional availability to quickly find relevant materials.
    - Edit and Create an Advanced Search
      Edit a criteria and create a new criteria by editing the existing criteria.
    - Delete Advanced Search
      Remove a criteria that is no longer needed.
  - View Scatter Plot
    Visualize the correlation and interdependency between two properties data. The independent property data is plotted on X-axis while the dependent property data is plotted in Y-axis.
- Compare Materials
  Select one or more materials to compare the chosen materials data.
- Filter Materials
  Browse and filter materials using the predefined categories as filters in the left navigation pane that most suit your requirements.
- Similar Materials
  Find similar materials in terms of mechanical, thermal, or electrical properties.
- View Material Details
  Visualize advanced and accurate material properties and curves. Also, view material impact using Global Warming Potential (GWP) and set your data preferences.
- Export Material Data
  Export material data sheets with plots as a PDF and CAE simulation-ready material cards to your workstation or Altair Drive.
- Share Material Data
  Share material information in an email, document or message. Recipients of the link can view the material information in AMDC.
- Customize Table View
  Customize the materials data in table view. Add, remove material properties as table columns, reorder the columns and sort them.
- Set AMDC Theme
  Set theme of AMDC.
- Manage Favorites
  Create and maintain different lists of favorite materials to quickly access from the catalog or maintain a list of materials for your project.
- Set Preferences
  AMDC currently supports English and German languages, different themes, and Metric and U.S. Customary units as unit systems.
- AMDC Private Database
  An administrator is provided access to the AMDC Dashboard to access specfic administrative related tasks to maintain up to date information in the Altair Material Database.
- AMDC Archived Release Notes
  Here are the release notes for features and updates to Altair Material Data Center.
Altair Design AI
Altair DesignAI enables you to make real-time predictions.

Delete Advanced Search

Remove a criteria that is no longer needed.

Click Advanced Search on the right pane.
The Advanced Search section is displayed.
Click .
The list of saved criteria is displayed.
Select the criteria that you want to delete.

Figure 1. Delete Criteria
Click Delete.
The selected criteria is deleted from the list.