Material Collection Files

Material collection files are yamal formatted files that contain groups of materials and associated properties. The user can create a custom material collection file or use one of the collections that are packaged with EarthBox MaterialLibrary.

The general structure of a material collection file is as follows:

description: |
  
  Text description goes here.
  - And can include bullets
  - Like these

  And Sections
  ============
  With text that provides additional details....
nmats: 3
MaterialGroupNameA:
    UniqueMaterialNameA:
      property_name_1: [value, units, description]
      property_name_2: [value, units, description]
      ...
    UniqueMaterialNameB
      property_name_1: [value, units, description]
      property__name_2: [value, units, description]
      ...
MaterialGroupNameB
    UniqueMaterialNameC:
      property_name_1: [value, units, description]
      property_name_2: [value, units, description]
      property_name_3: [value, units, description]
      ...
    UniqueMaterialNameD
      property_name_1: [value, units, description]
      property_name_2: [value, units, description]
      ...

See the list of valid material property names and standard units for material library files in Material Properties.