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Altair Material Data Center
Altair^® Material Data Center^TM (AMDC) provides accurate multi-domain material properties to enable the creation of sustainable, efficient, and lightweight designs.
Materials Copilot
AI assistant for AMDC.
Materials Copilot Guide
Materials Copilot is an interactive, AI-powered chat assistant where the users can query the database using natural language. It is able to understand complex queries and find materials matching the users requirements.

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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.
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Altair Material Data Center
Altair^® Material Data Center^TM (AMDC) provides accurate multi-domain material properties to enable the creation of sustainable, efficient, and lightweight designs.
- Launch AMDC
  Altair Material Data Center is a web-based tool accessible through all leading browsers. 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 Licenses
  AMDC provides license types such as Guest User, Viewer, Explorer, and ExplorerPlus. These are supported by Named User Licenses and Altair Units-based License models.
- Stick-Slip Material Database
  The Stick-Slip Database provides access to over 11,000 individual measurements covering a wide range of common materials available on the market.
- 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.
- 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.
- Materials Copilot
  AI assistant for AMDC.
  - Materials Copilot Guide
    Materials Copilot is an interactive, AI-powered chat assistant where the users can query the database using natural language. It is able to understand complex queries and find materials matching the users requirements.
  - Questions and Examples
    The Materials Copilot helps you quickly find material data, view datasheets, and apply filters using natural language questions. It suggests popular queries, interprets user input, and provides material lists with links to datasheets.
  - View and Manage Results
    You can perform further actions such as search within the filter, add to compare, add to favorites, and view datasheets from the Materials Copilot result list.
- Customize Materials Data 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
  Update your material database view preferences.
- 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.
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Materials Copilot Guide

Materials Copilot is an interactive, AI-powered chat assistant where the users can query the database using natural language. It is able to understand complex queries and find materials matching the users requirements.

Figure 1. Materials Copilot

Materials Copilot Menu Options

The Materials Copilot menu gives you quick access to manage your chat history and customize panel layout within the application. Use these options to ask questions, review previous conversations, and adjust the Copilot window to suit your workflow.

Figure 2. Materials Copilot Menu

In the top-right corner of the application window, click Materials Copilot .
In the Ask a question field, enter a question and press Enter or click the Send button to submit it.
Note: Materials Copilot keeps track of the current and last question, so when you ask a follow-up question, you can assume it remembers the last question and response.
Click Load Conversation to load your previous questions from your active chat.
Click Toggle Info to toggle information from your active chat.
Click Clear chat history to remove a question from your history.
Click Undock Panel to undock or reposition the window to another location within the application.
Click Dock Panel to reposition to its original location.
Click Close Close to close Materials Copilot window.

Knowledge Resources

Materials Copilot uses an active internet connection to process your questions and can only return answers based on data contained in AMDC and some additional knowledge resources, such as the Altair Community Knowledge Base, Altair How-To video libraries, and Altair Learning materials, for example. It understands and responds in multiple languages, with the input language detected automatically. The coverage of Altair's knowledge resources is continuously expanding.

Note: Please do not submit questions that include personal or sensitive information.

In contrast with other AI chat solutions, the hallucination phenomenon—where the AI invents non-existent answers—is vastly minimized due to its constrained context approach. However, it can still retrieve an incorrect answer or fail to find the answer, depending on the specific qualities of the question and Altair’s own data sources.