What are your top 10 most commonly used materials?

tristanpaine

We’re working on adding materials to Onshape and for our first pass at it we want to know what materials you use the most.

So, what are your 10 most commonly used materials? 

billy2

6061
abs
nylon 6/10
4130
1020
316
silicon rubber
mic6
pla

I don't have a 10th.

nav

Hi @tristanpaine in our case: 

1. Aluminum alloys 2024T3 / 6061T6 / 7075
2. Steel & Steel Alloys
3. Brass
4. Carbon Fiber
5. Titanium
6. Copper and Copper Alloys 
7. Nickel and Nickel Alloys 
8. ABS
9. Fiberglass
10. Magnesium and Magnesium Alloys

christopher_quijano

1. ABS
2. PC-ABS
3. POM
4. Cold Rolled Steel
5. Hot Rolled Steel
6. Stainless Steel

andrew_troup

Mild Steel
4340
O1 or perhaps D2 (tool steel)
8620 (case hardening steel)
316
2025 (duplex SS)
17/4PH (precipitation hardening SS)
Aluminium Bronze
Acetal
Alu alloys 5000 and 6000 series

It would be good if the pre-allocated materials were generic insofar as properties, especially density, were concerned.
To elaborate one example: I would rather see "mild steel" than a tighter designation which might apply only to barstock, or to structural steel, or to sheetmetal. But it would be nice to be able to edit the default material to a more specific spec, using the supplied properties as a jumping-off point, and save this alongside (without modification to) the default options.

traveler_hauptman

@tristanpaine Could you elaborate on what you mean by materials? Are these for visual rendering? Structural analysis? Mass properties?

traveler_hauptman

@nav I like your list. What are you working on? Aircraft? Racecars? 

(EDIT: don't know why I didn't see the tagline....got my answer.)

nav

Hi @traveler_hauptman I work for the aerospace sector, we have 3 business units in two of them R+d and MRO (Maintenance Repair & Overhaul) we design and develop special tooling and GSE (Ground support equipment) for different types of aircraft, we also design / perform structural repairs, aircraft skin replacements and aircraft modifications. Also we had the opportunity to modify and assemble a german basic trainer aircraft we bought the rights to, the original drawings were all in Unigraphics NX 90`s. We created a full 3D model that helped us with the mods and manufacturing process.



Original Design was all analog instruments, we modified the avionics to full glass cockpit displays.

christopher_owens

Are these going to be "generic" material names or "brand" names? I have run into that on 3D Hubs, not to mention language, "SpeELinG", measure units, and all. Here is what is in the arsenal.

ABS ESD7

ABS M30

ABS M30i

ABSi

PC ABS

PC

PC ISO

PPSF

ULTEM 9805

Rubber Like Shore A 27 (FullCure 930)

Rubber Like Shore A 60 (FullCure 970)

Rigid Black (FullCure 870)

Rigid White (FullCure 830)

Material Line : FullCure®

Rigid Clear (FullCure 720)

Flexible PP-Like White (Fullcure430)

Overmold Shore A 80 (DM_9110)

Overmold Shore A 85 (DM_9120)

Overmold Shore A 90 (DM_9130)

or just "Plastic" and "Resin"!

Oh, and "Metal"

17-4 Stainless Steel

15-5 Stainless Steel

316L Stainless Steel

Aluminum

Cobalt Chrome

Inco 718

Inco 625

Maraging Steel MS1

Titanium Ti6AI4V / ELI

traveler_hauptman

I am having so much fun trying to guess what people are doing based on their materials list.

pete_yodis

Aluminum 356 T6 Sand Cast
Aluminum A380 Die Cast
303 Stainless Bar
17-4 Stainless Bar... PH conditions H1150, A, and H900
416 HT Stainless Bar
Steel Bar 1144 CD Stress Relieved
Structural Steel A36
Steel Bar ETD150
Ductile Iron 80-55-06
Ductile Iron 100-70-03

Shucks, is that 10 already... alright attached is the full list...  Enjoy!

 

viru

Hi @tristanpaine ,
below material used frequently in our daily life,

 Also see the material used list  attachment.

With warm regards,
Virendrasingh Yadav

jakeramsley

traveler_hauptman said:

@tristanpaine Could you elaborate on what you mean by materials? Are these for visual rendering? Structural analysis? Mass properties?

Mass properties to start with.

traveler_hauptman

For mass properties, I most often am entering the mass of the off-the-shelf component that is being approximated. Or rather cursing as I look up the current volume and back calculate the density.

Aluminum
Steel
Bronze
Copper

I would probably not trust your densities for any composites or plastics unless they had references to a specific product line and manufacturer.

My internal materials lists have info on the source of the info as well as a 'checked by' field to differentiate quick and dirty entries from researched and vetted entries. Having similar fields (or a notes field) for custom materials would be important to me.

tristanpaine

@traveler_hauptman as Jake said, right now we're starting with mass properties.

michael3424

6061-T6
360 Brass
12L14 CRS
316L SS
Cast Iron
Delrin/Acetal
HDPE/UHMW
PTFE
CPVC
1018 CRS

caroline_read

ABS, PLA, 6061, Acrylics, PVC, steels, copper, not sure what else off hand

3dcad

@tristanpaine

10x Custom material with custom name and properties would a good start.

My top 10 materials:
- MFC (melamine faced chipboard, density varies with thickness)
- MDF (usually painted)
- Abs, Pvc, other plastics
- Aluminium
- Steel
- Zamac
- Veneer
- Massive woods

Definitely need possibility to set part/assembly mass properties according to real world piece when modeling something that already exists.

brucebartlett

Mild Steel GR250/350,
Alloy Steel 4140, Bis, hardox
Cast Steel
Cast Iron
Aluminium
Rubber
Poly Urethane
Abs, Pvc, Nylon other plastics
Glass
Tungsen Carbide

Ability to spec a weight with an override, real world weight.

Ability to link to a standard company material listing. eg Spec the desired RHS steel tube from the company's list inside Onshape and properties auto propergate to the part.  This is what we do in SW https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/191/properties-material-properties-and-drawings

raino_paananen

A possibility to add a custom material would be a nice start and would give you plenty of time to make a comprehensive package of pre set materoals to release in one big bang. (Mine are something that will not make the cut for top ten balsa, lite ply etc.)

Raino

peter_franzen

6061 aluminum (sheet & plate) and high-quality Baltic birch plywood are my top 2.

jeff_kunkler

Can Onshape elaborate on what is meant by "adding materials"? does this mean physical properties can be connected to the part as metadata for use in calculating weight, volume, centroids etc? will this also include a visual component? like drag and drop an appearance onto a part? Will the material show up in a Bill of Materials? If this is more about asking for what is wanted, then please add what I outline above, as long as all of the materials are customizable and more can be added by user or other 3rd party.

Thanks!

Jeff

imagineered

Aluminium;
6061-T6
6060-T5
5052 H32
5005 H34

Steel;
316 SS
304 SS
AS/NZS 1594 HA250
AS/NZS 1594 HA350

Plastics
30% Glass Filled Nylon
ABS
PP
UHMWPE
HDPE
LDPE
Polycarbonate

jakeramsley

jeff_kunkler said:

Can Onshape elaborate on what is meant by "adding materials"? does this mean physical properties can be connected to the part as metadata for use in calculating weight, volume, centroids etc? will this also include a visual component? like drag and drop an appearance onto a part? Will the material show up in a Bill of Materials? If this is more about asking for what is wanted, then please add what I outline above, as long as all of the materials are customizable and more can be added by user or other 3rd party.

Thanks!

Jeff

As we are doing an iterative approach to features and functionality, most likely the first release will be attaching materials as part of metadata.  We will expand out the behaviors of adding material as time goes by.

matthew_menard

Any love for materials that aren't metal or plastic?  The facility I work at manufactures alumina (aluminum oxide) ceramic components and it would be nice to see that represented. We don't manufacture them, but we do also use zirconium oxide ceramics, synthetic ruby, and synthetic sapphire components in our assemblies.  If OnShape were to ever get simulation capability, it would be great to have those materials, as even Solidworks is very lacking in non metal and plastic materials out of the box.  Even having mass properties for those materials would be helpful.  Just my two cents, thanks.

michael3424

I've used Macor for projects in the past, so I's like to see ceramics added, too.  Come to think of it elastomers for seals would also be nice to have.

Skippy

Stainless 304
Half Hard Brass
Aluminium
Wood of various kinds
ABS
PLA

mark_biasotti

ABS
ABS-PC
Polycarbonate
PC-Glass filled%
6061 Aluminum
Nylon
Nylon-Glass Filled%
Stainless Steel
Rubber
HDPE

andrew_troup

Thanks Onshape for a comprehensive list of materials released today.

I was initially a bit surprised that there were so many types of wood and so few types of carbon steel (26 vs 2), no medium or high tensile or tool steels at all (but three grades of Nickel, plus cupronickel and nickel silver !)

but there's something there to approximate most of the materials I use, which is as much as anyone can hope, and I do recognise that all carbon steels are effectively the same density, which can hardly be said for wood.

juan_aviles

Aluminum.  Specifically 6061 and 7000 series.
Acetal/Delrin
Brass
303 stainless
1010 steel
4130 steel

tristanpaine

@andrew_troup this is a first pass at materials, feel free to submit improvement requests for specific materials that you're missing.